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Defining what Sustainability and Sustainable Development mean is a critical task, as they are global objectives, which …
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This paper takes sustainability to be a matter of intergenerational welfare equality and examines whether an optimal … practical, especially in the context of developing countries. The maximin criterion of sustainability may be more appealing to …
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environment. This link also threatens the sustainability of the world’s economic growth, particularly when the emission of …
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institutions and human development dimensions in building a sustainable development path. In this paper, we attempt to analyze the … causal relationships between economic growth, human development and sustainability combining the RCH and EKC models and …
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assessment of sustainability under different future climate policy scenarios. We find that the environmental component of … explores whether the implementation of various climate policy scenarios would help enhancing sustainability or rather whether … comprehensive indicator, the FEEM Sustainability Index (FEEM SI), which aggregates several economic, social, and environmental …
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This study focuses on the dynamic evolution of a small open economy specialized in tourism based on natural resources when tourist services are supplied to foreign tourists who are crowding-averse and give positive value to the environmental quality. We analyse the steady-state properties and...
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We assume that people value employment not only to earn income to satisfy their consumption needs but also as a means of community/social involvement that provides socio-psychological (non-pecuniary) benefits. We show that the latter incentive can encourage full employment harvesting resources...
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We are interested in three related questions: (1) How should accounting prices be estimated? (2) How should we evaluate policy change in an imperfect economy? (3) How can we check whether intergenerational well-being will be sustained along a projected economic programme? We do not presume that...
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We critically review the Kyoto Protocol and thirteen alternative policy architectures for addressing the threat of global climate change. We employ six criteria to evaluate the policy proposals: environmental outcome, dynamic efficiency, cost effectiveness, equity, flexibility in the presence of...
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This paper reports on a contingent valuation study eliciting willingness to pay for a public program for the preservation of lagoon, beach and infrastructure in the island of S. Erasmo in the Lagoon of Venice. A referendum dichotomous choice approach with a follow-up question is used to obtain...
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