The 17th Symposium on Operations Research was held at Universitat der Bundeswehr Hamburg, August 25-28, 1992, as the annual meeting of the Gesellschaft fur Mathematik, Okonomie und Operations Research (GMOOR).
Innovation-oriented environmental regulation is extremely attractive for policy planners and decision makers, since it is expected that innovations can cut costs of environmental measures and overcome existing trade-offs between economic and ecological goals.
Die Veränderung des Weltklimas infolge des anthropogen verstärkten Treibhauseffekts und die prognostizierten Finanzierungsnöte der Pensionsversicherungen geben Anlaß zu großer Sorge.
Werner Müller Bundesminister für Wirtschaft und Technologie Der internationale Globalisierungsprozess hat in den letzten Jahren eine beträchtliche Intensivie rung erfahren.
Die Konzeption des vorliegenden Buches besteht im wesentlichen in einer speziellen "Problemsicht", aus der sich methodische und inhaltliche Schwerpunktsetzungen ableiten.
In diesem Buch werden in systematischer Weise verschiedene Arten von externen Kosten und Nutzen konkurrierender Technologien zur Elektrizitätserzeugung verglichen.
Die Tatsache, daß dieses Buch schon bald nach seinem erstmaligen Erscheinen in Neuauflage vorliegt, zeigt, daß der Autor einen wichtigen Bereich der Umweltpolitik beleuchtet.
Biodiversity, sometimes simply understood as "e;diversity of species"e;, is a specific quality of life on our planet, the dimensions and importance of which have just lately been fully realized.
This book is the second collection of systematic case studies describing national environmental policies in 17 countries in terms of capacity building (see Appen- dix).
The book reflects the work in progress regarding the analysis of the costs of crop genetic resources conservation that has been conducted at various research insti- tutes over the last couple of years, including research conducted at ZEF and asso- ciated institutes.
The adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in December 1997 was a major achievement in the endeavour to tackle the problem of global climate change at the dawn of the 21st century.
The fonner Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and fonner UN Secre- tary General, Butros Butros Ghali stated after the second Gulf War "e;The next war in the Middle East will not be fought for oil, but for water.
Because the number of options is often limited, small island states tend to find it uncommonly difficult to strike a balance between population, envi- ronment, and development.
This volume proposes a reconsideration of ecological and environmental aspects of the work and ideas of various heterodox authors and traditions in the history of economic thought, including the field of economic development.
Die Kraft einer Wirtschaftskrise kann auf Generationen hinaus dem Wohlstand einer Gesellschaft schaden und ihre politische und soziale Ordnung verändern.
