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The importance of tipping points for sustainable development
Bretschger, Lucas; Leuthard, Matthias - 2024 - This version: March 18, 2024
Solving major sustainability problems such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity requires overcoming a … inertia and path dependencies. As a result, expectations and reality are often still far apart in sustainability policy … thresholds can thus become a successful strategy for sustainability policy. In this paper, we highlight the importance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502191
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Climate change and uneven development
Bretschger, Lucas; Valente, Simone - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 113 (2011) 4, pp. 825-845
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407725
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Economics of climate change : introducing the Basic Climate Economic (BCE) model
Bretschger, Lucas; Karydas, Christos - In: Environment and development economics 24 (2019) 6, pp. 560-582
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498842
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Malthus in the light of climate change
Bretschger, Lucas - 2019
To reconsider the Malthusian predictions of natural limits to economic development, the paper develops a multi-sector growth model with exhaustible resource extraction, investments in physical and knowledge capital, climate change, and endogenous fertility. Economic growth is driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007552
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Sustainability and Substitution of Exhaustible Natural Resources. How resource prices affect long-term R&D investments
Bretschger, Lucas; Smulders, Sjak - 2003
limited, which seems to be crucial for today's sustainability debate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325110
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The sustainability paradigm: A macroeconomic perspective
Bretschger, Lucas - 1997
The paper presents a macroeconomic approach to sustainable growth. After clarifying the concept of sustainability, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608281
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The importance of tipping points for sustainable development
Bretschger, Lucas; Leuthard, Matthias - 2024
Solving major sustainability problems such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity requires overcoming a … inertia and path dependencies. As a result, expectations and reality are often still far apart in sustainability policy … thresholds can thus become a successful strategy for sustainability policy. In this paper, we highlight the importance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517477
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The sustainability paradigm: A macroeconomic perspective
Bretschger, Lucas - 1997
This paper presents a macroeconomic approach to sustainable growth. After clarifying the concept of sustainability, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397944
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Sustainability and substitution of exhaustible natural resources. How resource prices affect long-term R&D-investments
Bretschger, Lucas; Smulders, Sjak - 2006
Traditional resource economics has been criticised for assuming too high elasticities of substitution, not observing material balance principles and relying too much on planner solutions to obtain long-term growth. By analysing a multi-sector R&Dbased endogenous growth model with exhaustible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753091
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Economics of technological change and the natural environment: How effective are innovations as a remedy for resource scarcity?
Bretschger, Lucas - 2004
The paper aims to substantiate the importance of endogenous innovations when evaluating the compatibility of natural resource use and economic development. It explains that technological change has the potential to compensate for natural resource scarcity, diminishing returns to capital, poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753092