The paper shows how limited substitutability in consumption between different classes of goods affects the magnitude and time development of social discount rates. It decomposes the discount rates into an absolute growth and a relative growth or substitutability effect. The paper relates between-good and intertemporal substitutability to the notions of weak and strong sustainability. It analyze...

the objective of present research was to analyze environmental scores in companies whenadopting external social policies. we confirmed that location acts as a differentiating factor. we also analyzedthe human rights, community and product responsibility policies interaction with environmental scores. ourfirst hypothesis stated that social policies contribute to orientate companies toward enviro...

We test the hypothesis that people conform to certain social norms, i.e. that some individuals may be willing to pay a higher price premium for green products the more widespread green consumerism is in society. To investigate consumer preferences for environmentally friendly products, we conducted a choice experiment where the respondents were asked to choose among coffee products varying with...

Introduction Meeting sustainable development objectives is a complex and temporal process involving multiple stakeholders. The creation of economic wealth, social stability and environmental protection can be achieved through the development of products and services based on spatial information collected by all levels of government. These objectives can be facilitated through the development of...

Phenylpropenes, a large group of plant volatile compounds that serve in multiple roles in defense and pollinator attraction, contain a propenyl side chain. Eugenol synthase (EGS) catalyzes the reductive displacement of acetate from the propenyl side chain of the substrate coniferyl acetate to produce the allyl-phenylpropene eugenol. We report here the structure determination of EGS from basil (...

The Liberal commitment to replace the goods and services tax (GST) with a better tax has been studied by the House of Commons Finance Committee. The question of alternatives to the GST is not a new one. Prior to its introduction in 1991, a minority of tax experts questioned the wisdom of the federal government’s determination to go ahead with the GST.1 Some developed detailed proposals that wou...

Any transition towards a more environmentally sustainable world will strongly depend on people’s willingness to adopt the best available practices. We present here the Consumption Italy (CITA) model, an empirically grounded agent-based model designed to represent household consumption in Italy and to estimate the related greenhouse gas emissions under different environmental policy scenarios. W...

In the past decade, companies have increasingly realized that environmental sustainability is critical to their long-term profitability. As global population grows and demand for goods and services increases, companies are challenged to more efficiently use a finite base of natural resources. While many companies are successfully reducing their environmental impacts through a variety of on-the-...

EGS (external guide sequence) technology is a promising approach to designing new antibiotics. EGSs are short antisense oligoribonucleotides that induce RNase P-mediated cleavage of a target RNA by forming a precursor tRNA-like complex. The ftsZ mRNA secondary structure was modeled and EGSs complementary to two regions with high probability of being suitable targets were designed. In vitro reac...