This paper analyses the consequences of tightening environmental policy for economic growth. To find out how the new balanced growth path is reached in the long run, we simulate numerically for the short and medium term the transition path of a change in environmental policy within an endogenous...

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...