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Modeling Spatial Sustainability : Spatial Welfare Economics Versus Ecological Footprint
Grazi, Fabio; van den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M.; Rietveld, Piet - 2006
A spatial welfare framework for the analysis of the spatial dimensions of sustainability is developed. It incorporates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060050
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Can Climate Policy Enhance Sustainability?
Campagnolo, Lorenza - 2013
explores whether the implementation of various climate policy scenarios would help enhancing sustainability or rather whether … assessment of sustainability under different future climate policy scenarios. We find that the environmental component of … in one of our scenarios, sustainability in these countries would decrease and the overall effectiveness of climate policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086997
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Modeling Biased Technical Change - Implications for Climate Policy
Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica; Nicita, Lea - 2012
Climate-economy models aiming at quantifying the costs and effects of climate change impacts and policies have become important tools for climate policy decision-making. Although there are several important dimensions along which models differ, this paper focuses on a key component of climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197713
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Environmentalists' Behaviour and Environmental Policies
Canton, Joan - 2009
In this partial equilibrium and static model, the impact of environmentalism on two countries' environmental policies is presented. First, the only (indirect) way environmentalists influence the choice of pollution taxes is through a negative term in the welfare function in Home. It is defined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201486
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Economic Valuation of Forest Ecosystem Services : Methodology and Monetary Estimates
Chiabai, Aline; Travisi, Chiara; Ding, Helen; … - 2009
By using ad hoc value transfer protocols, this paper offers a methodological contribution and provides accurate per hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified following the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment taxonomy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208309
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Macroeconomic Implications of Demography for the Environment : A Life-Cycle Perspective
Pautrel, Xavier - 2009
This article studies how demography affects the outcome of the environmental policy in a macro-economic perspective, incorporating age-earning profiles in an OLG model a la Blanchard (1985) to capture the age structure effect of the demographic shocks. It first demonstrates, conversely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012719564
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Modeling Coupled Climate, Ecosystems, and Economic Systems
Brock, William A. - 2015
exploration of new modeling approaches which are relevant and useful for the modeling of other types of coupled ecological …/economic systems. These include modeling of deep structural uncertainty by using robust control methods, exploring modeling through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019356
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A Bug's Life : Competition Among Species Towards the Environment
Bella, Giovanni - 2007
A model of different species competing for the same environment is presented, and possible explanations of peaceful coexistence or rather internecine conflicts are consequently derived. By means of a Lotka-Volterra dynamic system we describe the evolution of two populations (bees and locusts)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012731844
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Optimal Emission Policy Under the Risk of Irreversible Pollution
Ayong Le Kama, Alain; Pommeret, Aude; Prieur, Fabien - 2011
We consider an optimal consumption and pollution problem that has two important features. Environmental damages due to economic activities may be irreversible and the level at which the degradation becomes irreversible is unknown. Particular attention is paid to the situation where agents are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185878
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Redealing the Cards : How the Presence of an Eco-Industry Modifies the Political Economy of Environmental Policies
Canton, Joan - 2007
An incumbent government maximizes its chances of being reelected. Its objective function encompasses both social welfare and political contributions. Its only instrument is a pollution tax. In an open-economy context, we introduce an eco-industry in addition to lobbies of polluting firms and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014052215