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Cooperation, Stability and Self-Enforcement in International Environmental Agreements: A Conceptual Discussion

Tulkens, Henry; Chander, Parkash - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

In essence, any international environmental agreement (IEA) implies cooperation of a form or another. The paper seeks for logical foundations of this. It first deals with how the need for cooperation derives from the public good aspect of the externalities involved, as well as with where the...

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Robust Control of a Spatially Distributed Commercial Fishery

Brock, William A.; Xepapadeas, Anastasios; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

We consider a robust control model for a spatially distributed commercial fishery under uncertainty, and in particular a tracking problem, i.e. the problem of robust stabilization of a chosen deterministic benchmark state in the presence of model uncertainty. The problem is expressed in the form...

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Spatial Analysis: Development of Descriptive and Normative Methods with Applications to Economic-Ecological Modelling

Xepapadeas, Anastasios; Brock, William - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

This paper adapts Turing analysis and applies it to dynamic bioeconomic problems where the interaction of coupled economic and ecological dynamics over space endogenously creates (or destroys) spatial heterogeneity. It also extends Turing analysis to standard recursive optimal control frameworks...

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Abatement Cost Uncertainty and Policy Instrument Selection under a Stringent Climate Policy. A Dynamic Analysis

Bosetti, Valentina; Golub, Alexander; Massetti, Emanuele; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

This paper investigates the relative economic and environmental outcomes of price versus quantity mechanisms to control GHG emissions when abatement costs are uncertain. In particular, we evaluate the impacts on policy costs, CO2 emissions and energy R&D for a stringent mitigation target of 550...

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Optimal Mechanisms for Heterogeneous Multi-cell Aquifers

Athanassoglou, Stergios; Sheriff, Glenn; Siegfried, Tobias - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

Standard economic models of groundwater management impose restrictive assumptions regarding perfect transmissivity (i.e., the aquifer behaves as a bathtub), no external effects of groundwater stocks, observability of individual extraction rates, and/or homogenous agents. In this article, we...

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Optimal Control and Spatial Heterogeneity: Pattern Formation in Economic-Ecological Models

Xepapadeas, Anastasios; Brock, William - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper extends Turing analysis to standard recursive optimal control frameworks in economics and applies it to dynamic bioeconomic problems where the interaction of coupled economic and ecological dynamics under optimal control over space creates (or destroys) spatial heterogeneity. We show...

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Implications of Weak Near-term Climate Policies on Long-term Mitigation Pathways

Igos, Elorri; Rugani, Benedetto; Rege, Sameer; Benetto, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

The future evolution of energy supply technologies strongly depends on (and affects) the economic and environmental systems, due to the high dependency of this sector on the availability and cost of fossil fuels, especially on the small regional scale. This paper aims at presenting the modeling...

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Cost Effectiveness in River Management: Evaluation of Integrated River Policy System in Tidal Ouse

Wang, Tao - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

The River Ouse forms a significant part of Humber river system, which drains about one fifth the land area of England and provides the largest fresh water source to the North Sea from UK. The river quality in the tidal river suffered from sag of dissolved oxygen (DO) during last few decades,...

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Valuing Environmental Factors in Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Kuosmanen, Timo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Environmental cost-benefit analysis (ECBA) refers to social evaluation of investment projects and policies that involve significant environmental impacts. Valuation of the environmental impacts in monetary terms forms one of the critical steps in ECBA. We propose a new approach for environmental...

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Using Data Envelopment Analysis to Assess the Relative Efficiency of Different Climate Policy Portfolios

Bosetti, Valentina; Buchner, Barbara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

qualitative manner and is often based on subjective procedures. The present paper discusses a data-based, quantitative methodology … impacts of the policy are considered. The methodology computes competitive advantages as well as relative efficiencies of …, represent both arbitrary decisions, the methodology presented is shown to represent a practical tool to be flexibly adopted by …

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