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Private Capital, Public Goods: Forest Plantations' Investment in Local Infrastructure and Social Services in Rural Tanzania
Degnet, Mohammed B.; van der Werf, Edwin; Ingram, Verina; … - 2017
various groups in society when assessing the sustainability of forestry investments and their impacts on local communities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744996
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Economic Analysis, Sustainability and Environmental Commons
Musu, Ignazio - 2013
When confronted with market weaknesses and failures determining sustainability problems for environmental common … factors at work in determining the role of institutions to deal with sustainability issues and explores the implications of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328786
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Sustainability and discounted utilitarianism in models of economic growth
Asheim, Geir B.; Mitra, Tapan - 2009
Discounted utilitarianism treats generations unequally and leads to seemingly unappealing consequences in some models of economic growth. Instead, this paper presents and applies sustainable discounted utilitarianism (SDU). SDU respects the interests of future generations and resolves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264536
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Combining rights and welfarism: A new approach to intertemporal evaluation of social alternatives
Long, Ngo Van; Martinet, Vincent - 2012
We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the evaluation of economic development paths. The concern for rights is captured by a pre-ordering over combinations of thresholds (floors or ceilings on various quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281039
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Characterizing Sustainability in Discrete Time
Asheim, Geir B. - 2018
We examine the investment rule that must be satisfied by an efficient and egalitarian path in a discrete-time version of the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow model of capital accumulation and resource depletion. In the discrete-time model, competitive valuation of net investments in terms of early and late...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908689
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Climate Damages in Convergence-Consistent Growth Projections
Harding, Anthony; Moreno-Cruz, Juan; Quaas, Martin F.; … - 2023
Projections of climate change damages based on climate-econometric estimates suggest that, without mitigation, global warming could reduce average global incomes by over 20% towards the end of the century (Burke et al., 2015). This figure significantly surpasses climate damages in Integrated...
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve and Sustainability: A Panel Data Analysis
Farhani, Sahbi; Mrizak, Sana; Chaibi, Anissa; Rault, … - 2014
In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental … specification, namely modified EKC (MEKC), we show that there is an inverted U-shape relationship between sustainability and human …. More interestingly, findings from the estimation show that EKC hypothesis, HD and sustainability are crucial to build …
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Justifying social discounting: The rank-discounted utilitarian approach
Zuber, Stéphane; Asheim, Geir B. - 2010
The discounted utilitarian criterion for infinite horizon social choice has been criticized for treating generations unequally. We propose an extended rank-discounted utilitarian (ERDU) criterion instead. The criterion amounts to discounted utilitarianism on non-decreasing streams, but it treats...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274972
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The Transition to Renewable Energy
Mason, Charles F.; Chassé, Rémi Morin - 2018
The existing economics literature neglects the important role of capacity in the production of renewable energy. To fiill this gap, we construct a model in which renewable energy production is tied to renewable energy capacity, which then becomes a form of capital. This capacity capital can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815782
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Characterizing Sustainability in Discrete Time
Asheim, Geir B.; Mitra, Tapan - 2018
We examine the investment rule that must be satisfied by an efficient and egalitarian path in a discrete-time version of the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow model of capital accumulation and resource depletion. In the discrete-time model, competitive valuation of net investments in terms of early and late...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931956