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Evolutionary thinking in environmental economics

Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007

Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...

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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics

van den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. - 2015

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Stochastic Environmental Policy, Risk-Taking, and Growth

Soretz, Susanne - 2003

stochastic pollution tax, which is uncorrelated with the technological uncertainty of pollution, is compared with a pure … uncertainty associated with pollution leads to an increase in abatement activities and therefore supports the corresponding …

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Stochastic Pollution and Environmental Care in an Endogenous Growth Model

Soretz, Susanne - 2002

environmental preferences and uncertainty on optimal financing is ambiguous. …

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Discounting the Distant Future: How Much Do Uncertain Rates Increase Valuations?

Newell, Richard G.; Pizer, William A. - 2001

the certainty-equivalent rate that is, the single discount rate that summarizes the effect of uncertainty and measures the …,000 relative to conventional discounting. Applying the random walk model to the consequences of climate change, we find that … inclusion of discount rate uncertainty almost doubles the expected present value of mitigation benefits. …

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Discounting, risk and inequality : a general approach

Fleurbaey, Marc; Zuber, Stéphane - In: Journal of public economics 128 (2015), pp. 34-49

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The ethics of intergenerational risk

Piacquadio, Paolo G. - 2015 - This version August 7, 2015

The paper reexamines the ethics of intergenerational risk. When risk re-solves gradually, earlier decisions cannot depend on the realization of later shocks and, consequently, some inequalities across generations are inevitable. To account for these inequalities, risky intergenerational...

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