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Economic Analysis, Sustainability and Environmental Commons

Musu, Ignazio - 2015

When confronted with market weaknesses and failures determining sustainability problems for environmental common-pool resources, economic analysis has proposed government intervention as the only alternative available. Elinor Ostrom showed that this dichotomy between market and government is not...

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Interpreting Sustainability in Economic Terms : Dynamic Efficiency Plus Intergenerational Equity

Stavins, Robert N.; Wagner, Alexander F.; Wagner, Gernot - 2014

Economists have expended considerable effort to develop economically meaningful definitions of the somewhat elusive concept of "sustainability." We relate such a definition of sustainability to well known concepts from neoclassical economics, in particular, potential Pareto improvements (in the...

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Uncovering the impact of intergenerational income mobility on interpersonal trust

Shaleva, Anna E. - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 15, pp. 1-17

Alluding to theories about relative economic status and behavior, this paper studies if relative income mobility, or the intergenerational change in income positions, affects interpersonal trust. Empirically, the question is brought down to an application with US General Social Survey data. For...

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Innovative investments, natural resources, and intergenerational fairness : are pension funds good for sustainable development?

Bretschger, Lucas; Pittel, Karen - 2005

We analyse long-term consumption paths in a dynamic two-sector economy with overlapping generations. Each young generation saves for the retirement age, both with private savings and pension funds. The productivity of each sector can be raised by sector-specific research while the essential use...

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Intergeneration Human Capital Transmission and Poverty Traps

Camacho, Carmen; Estevan, Fernanda - 2023

We use an overlapping generations model to investigate the role of parental health investment and children's schooling on the aggregate level of human capital and inequality. In our model, parental longevity affects children's human capital since it impacts human capital transmission. When poor...

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Bundling biodiversity

Heal, Geoffrey - 2002

Biodiversity provides essential services to human societies. Many of these services are provided as public goods, so that they will typically be underprovided both by market mechanisms (because of the impossibility of excluding non-payers from using the services) and by government-run systems...

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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. First Volume

Recchia, Virginia - 1999

Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk communication is a relatively new field based on a...

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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. Second Volume

Recchia, Virginia - 1999

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Total Factor Productivity Growth and the Environment: A Case for Green Growth Accounting

Xepapadeas, Anastasios; Tzouvelekas, E.; Vouvaki, D. - 2007

We examine whether the use of the environment, proxied by CO2 emissions, as a factor of production contributes, in … with environment as a factor of production which is unpaid in the absence of environmental policy is developed. Using data … environment as a not fully compensated factor of production. Our results point towards the need for developing a concept of Green …

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Mapping Ecosystem Functions to the Valuation of Ecosystem Services : Implications of Species-Habitat Associations for Coastal Land-Use Decisions

Sanchirico, James N. - 2013

Habitats and the ecosystem services they provide are part of the world's portfolio of natural capital assets. Like many components of this portfolio, it is difficult to assess the full economic value of these services, which tends to over-emphasize the value of extractive activities such as...

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