Policy Options for a Resource-Efficient Economy (POLFREE)
The POLFREE project is about policies to improve resource efficiency. The first question which needs to be answered in order to motivate the project is why resources have been and are being used…
Analysing the German Resource Policy (PolRess)
Natural resources are finite and their extractions and uses are often associated with environmental impacts. Thus, over the next decades, significant and lasting increases in resource efficiency…
TSA implementation consultation to the National Bureau of Statistics in Turkey
The main aim of the consultancy mission was the general introduction and explanation of the TSA-RMF methodology and the analysis of the future tasks in the national TSA-implementation process…
Model-based analysis of regional value creation effects in rural development programmes
The growth and employment effects of five different types of measures in the framework of rural development programmes are determined for six federal states. The particular challenge is to create…
Macroeconomic Modelling of Sustainable Development and the Links between the Economy and the Environment (MacMod)
In co-operation with Cambridge Econometrics (CE), the Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI) and the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, the GWS analyses the resource…
Cornerstones of a sustainable welfare model as a basis for environmental policy descision makers
A synopsis of political welfare concepts, which are currently discussed under labels such as "green growth", "zero growth" and "degrowth", has identified fundamental shortcomings concerning the…
Assessment of the state of the art concerning the implementation of TSA in the Member States of the EU
The Eurostat project on Tourism Satellite Accounts started in January 2008 and has been completed in autumn 2009. The contractor ICON Public Sector GmbH was in charge for the administrative…