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On Technical Change in the Elasticities of Resource Inputs
Growiec, Jakub - 2015
This article considers an economy whose production function takes both renewable and non-renewable resources as inputs. We extend the current literature by allowing for exogenous technical change in the elasticity of substitution between these two types of resources. In addition, we study the...
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Is substitutability the new efficiency? : endogenous investment in the elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty energy
Stöckl, Fabian - 2020
When analyzing potential ways to counter climate change, standard models of green growth abstract from investment in substitutability between "clean" and "dirty" energy inputs. Instead, they rely on the assumption that efficiency with respect to fossil fuels can be increased perpetually....
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Natural resource scarcity and long-run development : central mechanisms when conditions are seemingly unfavourable
Bretschger, Lucas - 2005
Using a dynamic model with non-renewable natural resources and endogenous knowledge creation, the paper analyses economic development under conditions which are generally considered as most unfavourable. We assume poor substitution between primary input factors, positive population growth and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793168
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The Circular Economy’s Closed Loop and Product Service Systems for Sustainable Development : A Comprehensive Review and Appraisal
Camilleri, Mark Anthony - 2018
systems minimise the environmental impact as practitioner reduce their externalities, including; waste, emissions, and energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909789
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Towards a Sustainable Circular Economy on a Full Planet : The Role of Thermodynamic Principles
Wiedenhofer, Dominik; Haas, Willi; Haberl, Helmut - 2023
, companies, sectors, to recycling. Macro-level, system-wide implications of circularity strategies remain underappreciated. We … buildings, infrastructures and machinery grow. This even holds under the assumption of complete recycling, which is practically …
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On Recycling and Technological Externalities
Andre, F.J.; Cerda, E. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090507
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The Core of an Economy with Multilateral Environmental Externalities
Chander, Parkash; Tulkens, Henry - 1998
When environmental externalities are international - i.e. transfrontier - they most often are multilateral and embody … which are not members of the coalition. This has been for a long time a disputed issue in the theory of the core of … economies with externalities. Among the several assumptions that can be made to this behaviour, a plausible one is defined in …
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Economic theories of sustainable consumption
Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1999
The term 'sustainable consumption' denotes the search for consumption patterns that reduce human pressure on the environment and nature. This search involves three levels of research. First, the relationship between consumption, lifestyles and environmental sustainability has to be clarified. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451404
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Economic theories of sustainable consumption
Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1999
The term ‘sustainable consumption’ denotes the search for consumption patterns that reduce human pressure on the environment and nature. This search involves three levels of research. First, the relationship between consumption, lifestyles and environmental sustainability has to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822566
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A Generalized Production Set. The Production and Recycling Function
André, Francisco J.; Cerdá, Emilio - Centro de Estudios Andaluces, Government of Andalusia - 2001
recycling technology is available. …This article focuses on the technological aspect of recycling, its effect on the production set of the economy and the … of Production Function is proposed: the Production and Recycling Function, which represents the production set when a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005121320