Building Business Models around Sustainable Development Goals

By specifying the UN’s sustainable development goals as quantifiable target groups, one can address these targets directly. We develop four generic business model designs based on two fundamental decisions: Should value be created for or with the target group, and should income be generated through market revenues or positive externalities

Can preferential credit programs speed up the adoption of low-carbon agricultural systems in Mato Grosso, Brazil? Results from bioeconomic microsimulation

The need to balance agricultural production and environmental protection shifted the focus of Brazilian land-use policy toward sustainable agriculture. In 2010, Brazil established preferential credit lines to finance investments into low-carbon integrated agricultural systems of crop, livestock and forestry. This article presents a simulation-based empirical assessment of integrated system adoption in the state of Mato Grosso, where highly mechanized soybean–cotton and soybean–maize doublecrop systems currently prevail. We employ bioeconomic modeling to explicitly capture the heterogeneity of farm level costs and benefits of adoption. By parameterizing and validating our simulations with both empirical and experimental data, we evaluate the effectiveness of the ABC Integration credit through indicators such as land-use change, adoption rates and budgetary costs of credit provision. Alternative scenarios reveal that specific credit conditions might speed up the diffusion of low-carbon agricultural systems in Mato Grosso

Kurze Geschichte und Beschreibung der Anstalten Bethel, Sarepta, Nazareth, Wilmersdorf und Arbeiterheim bei Bielefeld

hrsg. von M. Siebol

Kurze Geschichte und Beschreibung der Anstalten Bethel, Sarepta, Nazareth, Wilmersdorf und Arbeiterheim bei Bielefeld

hrsg. von M. Siebol

Kurze Geschichte und Beschreibung der Anstalten Bethel, Sarepta, Nazareth, Wilmersdorf und Arbeiterheim bei Bielefeld

hrsg. v. M. Siebol

An analysis of the sustainability of the organic dehesa pig farming systems in Andalusia, Spain, using the multiple criteria decision-making paradigm

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Laser cooling of stored relativistic ion beams with large momentum spreads using a laser system with a wide scanning range

New results on laser cooling of stored, bunched, relativistic ion beams are presented. For the first time it has been possible to cool an ion beam with large momentum spread without initial electron cooling or scanning of the bunching frequency by using a single cw laser system

Laser cooling of stored relativistic ion beams with large momentum spreads using a laser system with a wide scanning range

New results on laser cooling of stored, bunched, relativistic ion beams are presented. For the first time it has been possible to cool an ion beam with large momentum spread without initial electron cooling or scanning of the bunching frequency by using a single cw laser system