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Carbon Sequestration with Reforestations and Biodiversity-Scenic Values

Caparrós, A.; Cerdá, E.; Ovando, P.; Campos, P. - 2007

This paper presents an optimal control model to analyze reforestations with two different species, including commercial values, carbon sequestration and biodiversity or scenic values. We solve the model qualitatively with general functions and discuss the implications of partial or total...

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What social cost of carbon? A mapping of the climate debate

Perrissin Fabert, Baptiste; Dumas, Patrice; Hourcade, … - 2012

Given disparate beliefs about economic growth, technical change and damage caused by climate change, this paper starts with the seeming impossibility of determining a unique time profile of the social costs of carbon as a benchmark for climate negotiations and for infrastructure decisions that...

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General pattern formation in recursive dynamical systems models in economics

Xepapadeas, Anastasios; Brock, William - 2009

This paper presents a fairly general treatment of recursive infinite horizon forward looking optimizing systems on infinite dimensional spatial domains. It includes optimal control, an analysis of local stability of spatially flat optimal steady states and development of techniques to compute...

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Optimal emission policy under the risk of irreversible pollution

Kama, Alain Ayong le; Pommeret, Aude; Prieur, Fabien - 2011

We consider an optimal consumption and pollution problem that has two important features. Environmental damages due to economic activities may be irreversible and the level at which the degradation becomes irreversible is unknown. Particular attention is paid to the situation where agents are...

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A post-consumer waste management model for determining optimal levels of recycling and landfilling

Huhtala, Anni - 1997

The present study examines the optimal recycling rate for municipal solid waste. First, an optimal control model is developed to describe the waste accumulation phenomenon. The physical costs of recycling, the social costs of landfilling, and consumers' environmental preferences are accounted...

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Pollution control: When, and how, to be precautious

Athanassoglou, Stergios; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - 2011

The precautionary principle (PP) applied to environmental policy stipulates that, in the presence of physical uncertainty, society must take robust preventive action to guard against worst-case outcomes. It follows that the higher the degree of uncertainty, the more aggressive this preventive...

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Modeling ambiguity in expert elicitation surveys: Theory and application to solar technology R&D

Athanassoglou, Stergios; Bosetti, Valentina - 2012

potential of new technologies. In this paper we propose a simple decision-theoretic framework that takes into account ambiguity … ambiguity. Our model is intuitive, captures decision makers' ambiguity attitudes, and enables simple sensitivity analysis across … levels of ambiguity. We apply our framework to original data from a recent expert elicitation survey on solar technology. The …

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Climate Coalitions: A Theoretical and Computational Appraisal

Bréchet, Thierry; Gerard, François - 2007

Using an updated version of the CWS model (introduced by Eyckmans and Tulkens in Resource and Energy Economics 2003), this paper intends to evaluate with numbers the respective merits of two competing notions of coalition stability in the standard global public goods model as customarily applied...

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A Review of Recent Studies on Cost Effectiveness of GHG Mitigation Measures in the European Agro-Forestry Sector

Giupponi, Carlo; Bosello, Francesco; Povellato, Andrea - 2007

Over the last twenty years, climate change has become an increasing concern for scientists, public opinions and policy makers. Due to the pervasive nature of its impacts for many important aspects of human life, climate change is likely to influence and be influenced by the most diverse policy...

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Assessing Climate Change Impacts: Agriculture

Bosello, Francesco; Zhang, Jian - 2005

The economy-wide implications of climate change on agricultural sectors in 2050 are estimated using a static computable general equilibrium model. Peculiar to this exercise is the coupling of the economic model with a climatic model forecasting temperature increase in the relevant year and with...

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