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Sustainability: Dynamics and Uncertainty [electronic resource] / edited by Graciela Chichilnisky, Geoffrey Heal, Alessandro Vercelli.

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This volume provides a rigorous and analytical perspective on the pressing issue of making economic progress consistent with environmental conservation. It proposes formal definitions of sustainability, embeds them in dynamic models and models of uncertainty, and explores the concepts and their impl...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Chichilnisky, Graciela
Other Authors: Heal, Geoffrey, Vercelli, Alessandro
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1998.
Series:Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) series on economics, energy, and environment ; 9.
Subjects:
Economics.
Environmental management.
Environmental economics.
Table of Contents:
  • Section 1: Overview
  • 1.1. Interpreting Sustainability
  • 1.2. Global Environmental Risks
  • Section 2: Dynamics
  • 2.1. Sustainable Use of Renewable Resources
  • 2.2. North South Trade and the Dynamics of the Environment
  • 2.3. Trade, Migration, and Environment: A General Equilibrium Analysis
  • 2.4. A Simple Model of Optimal Sustainable Growth
  • 2.5. Environmental Externalities, Disconnected Generations and Policy
  • 2.6. Stochastic Sustainability
  • 2.7. Sustainable Development and the Freedom of Future Generations
  • Section 3: Uncertainty
  • 3.1. Hard Uncertainty and Environmental Policy
  • 3.2. Environmental Option Values, Uncertainty Aversion and Learning
  • 3.3. Environmental Bonds: A Critical Assessment
  • 3.4. Uncertain Future Preferences and Conservation
  • 3.5. Financial Markets for Unknown Risks
  • 3.6. Stochastic Sustainability in the Presence of Unknown Parameters
  • 3.7. Climate Change and Emission Permits.

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