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In the economic literature it is generally found that trade openness affects environment through various channels … examining the consequences of agricultural primary commodity export on population's health via physical environment degradation …
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We propose an ethical viewpoint based on the possibility of the realization of the worst-case scenario in order to reduce future generations risks in terms of discounting. Applied to the question of conservation of a renewable resource, we show that an economy, where the social planner takes...
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addressing here is: should uncertainty about future preferences lead to a more conservative attitude towards environment … environment than ours, but this result relies heavily on the assumption of a separability between consumption and environmental … (impatience, intertemporal flexibility, natural capacities of regeneration of the environment, relative preference for the …
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We consider an overlapping generations model with environment and an elastic labor supply. In this framework, consumers …
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the use of environmental services and so is a direct cause of environmental degradation. The environment is valued both as … marginal discount rate allows us to avoid the depletion of the environment. …
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The Kyoto Protocol, which came in force in February 2005, allows countries to resort to «supplementary activities» consisting particularly in carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. Existing papers studying the optimal carbon sequestration recognize the importance of the temporality of...
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environment is not a result of temperance or mitigation of natural variations but rather that the economy itself - in addition to …
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environmental quality through lower levels of consumption, but it improves the environment through maintenance expenditure for … wealth-environment combinations at which, in a restricted model without environmental culture, no maintenance would be …
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Investigations of long-run sustainability of joint ecological-economic systems highlight the pertinence of reconsidering "free disposal" assumptions that underpin Sraffian and von Neumann approaches to value and growth theory. We investigate joint-production time-paths for square systems A and B...
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The aim of this communication is to present new focuses for research in the field of Environment and Information … ICT on the environment: paper, transportation, consumption, waste... The aim of the second part is to discuss the rather … positive role played by ICT with regard to knowledge of the environment: simulation, traceability, information... Research on …
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