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The Environmental Kuznets Curve: a Survey of the Literature
Borghesi, Simone - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999
degradation increases in the early stages of growth, but it eventually decreases as income exceeds a threshold level. The present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391480
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Sustainability and Substitution of Exhaustible Natural Resources. How resource prices affect long-term R&D investments
Bretschger, Lucas; Smulders, Sjak - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
material balance principles and relying too much on planner solutions to obtain long-term growth. By analysing a multi-sector R …&D-based endogenous growth model with exhaustible natural resources, labour, knowledge, and physical capital as inputs, the present paper … addresses this critique. We study transitional dynamics and the long-term growth path and identify conditions under which firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230919
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Simple Myths and Basic Maths about Greening Irrigation
Gómez, Carlos M.; Pérez-Blanco, C. Dionisio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
Greening the economy is mostly about improving water governance and not only about putting the existing resource saving technical alternatives into practice. Focusing on the second and forgetting the first risks finishing with a highly efficient use of water services at the level of each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268601
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Water Flows in the Economy. An Input-output Framework to Assess Water Productivity in the Castile and León Region (Spain)
Blanco, C. Dionisio Pérez; Thaler, Thomas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
Traditionally, water policy has focused on coordinating the public effort required to fuel economic growth by supplying …, population growth and the improvement of living standards brought about by development have driven water demand up and the … economic development from water demand has resulted in a water dependent growth model that in many areas is currently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268605
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Properties of a Non-Competitive Electricity Market Dominated by Hydroelectric Power
Hoel, Michael; Førsund, Finn R. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
An important conclusion from the literature on hydropower is that if there are no other constraints than the available water reservoirs for a year, and operating costs are ignored, the competitive (and socially optimal) outcome is characterized by the (present value) price being constant through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385330
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The Socio-Economic Value of Natural Riverbanks in the Netherlands
Ruijgrok, E.C.M.; Nillesen, E.E.M. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
Ecologists and economists both use a different approach to determine the value of nature. Its ecological value can be measured using criteria like rarity and diversity of species in an ecosystem. The economic value can be determined using non-market valuation techniques. This paper focuses on an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385347
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A Future for the Dead Sea Basin: Water Culture among Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians
Lipchin, Clive - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
The Dead Sea basin plays a major role for regional economic development (industry, tourism and agriculture) in the Middle East. This potential is threatened by the steady disappearance of the Dead Sea. Since around 1930 the water level of the Dead Sea has fallen by about 25 m, about half of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385359
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Welfare and Distribution Effects of Water Pricing Policies
Ruijs, Arjan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
In this paper, distribution and welfare effects of changes in block price systems are evaluated. A method is discussed to determine, for a Marshallian demand function, equivalent variation in case of a block price system. The method is applied to analyze welfare and distribution effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385366
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The Economic Impact of the South-North Water Transfer Project in China: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Berrittella, Maria; Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, Richard S.J. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
Water resources are unevenly spread in China. Especially the basins of the Yellow, Hui and Hai rivers in the North are rather dry. To increase the supply of water in these basins, the South-to-North Water Transfer project (SNWT) was launched. Using a computable general equilibrium model this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385373
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Endogenous Technology and Tradable Emission Quotas
Hoel, Michael; Golombek, Rolf - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
We study an international climate agreement that assigns emission quotas to each participating country. Unlike the simplest models in the literature, we assume that abatement costs are affected by R&D activities undertaken in all firms in all countries, i.e. abatement technologies are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385375