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Macroeconomics, Financial Crisis and the Environment. Strategies for a Sustainability Transition

Antal, Miklós; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2014

We raise fundamental questions about macroeconomics relevant to escaping the financial and economic crisis and shifting to a sustainable economy. First, the feasibility of decoupling environmental pressure from aggregate income is considered. Decoupling as a single environmental strategy is...

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Evolutionary modelling in economics: a survey of methods and building blocks

Safarzynska, Karolina; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2008

algorithms and evolutionary game theory; (2) building blocks or components of formal models classified into core processes and …

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Modeling Spatial Sustainability: Spatial Welfare Economics versus Ecological Footprint

Grazi, Fabio; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M.; Rietveld, Piet - 2006

A spatial welfare framework for the analysis of the spatial dimensions of sustainability is developed. It incorporates agglomeration effects, interregional trade, negative environmental externalities and various land use categories. The model is used to compare rankings of spatial configurations...

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Local and Global Interactions in an Evolutionary Resource Game

Noailly, Joëlle; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M.; … - 2005

Conditions for the emergence of cooperation in a spatial common-pool resource game are studied. This combines in a unique way local and global interactions. A fixed number of harvesters are located on a spatial grid. Harvesters choose among three strategies: defection, cooperation, and...

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Spatial Evolution of Social Norms in a Common-Pool Resource Game

Noailly, Joëlle; Withagen, Cees A.; van den Bergh, … - 2005

We study the conditions for the emergence of cooperation in a spatial common-pool resource game. We consider three types of agents: cooperators, defectors and enforcers. The role of enforcers is to punish defectors for overharvesting the resource. Agents are located around a circle and they only...

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Advances in Environmental Economics: Analysis and Modelling

van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 1998

This paper gives a concise overview of environmental-economicanalysis. Important issues and modern developments in the field aresurveyed in a systematic way. Next, the concept of sustainabledevelopment is discussed, as it has dominated environmental economicsfor almost a decade now. In addition,...

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Optimal Multi-Regional Patterns of Economic Development and Material Resource Use

Janssen, Marco A.; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2000

Regional economic activities require materials that can be extracteddomestically or imported from other regions. Analysis of optimalpatterns ofcombined economic development and materials use should be discussedinrelation to trade and the environment. A model is presented thatoptimiseslong-term...

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Spatial Sustainability, Trade and Indicators

van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M.; Verbruggen, Harmen - 1998

The search for frameworks and indicators of sustainable development has taken a prominent place in this journal. However, some specific aspects have received little or no attention, notably the spatial dimension and the role of international trade in indicator development. Moreover, many...

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Perseverance of Perverse Subsidies and their Impact on Trade and the Environment

van Beers, Cees; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2000

Theoretical and empirical aspects of policy failures due to subsidies are discussed in the context of international trade. A general classification of subsidies that cause environmental externalities is presented. The economic and environmental impacts of producer subsidies on international...

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Models of Individual Behavior and Implications for Environmental Policy

van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M.; Ferrer-I-Carbonell, Ada; … - 1998

, formulated in terms of maximization of utility ingeneral, or profits in particular. The standard theory of environmental policy … behavioural assumptions have been most significant for the development ofeconomic valuation theory and environmental policy theory …. The focus here will be onenvironmental policy theory. …

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