Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics

1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-90-481-7598-7
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 231 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources

The chapters in the book cover a broad range of aspects regarding the relationship between natural resource use and long-term economic development. The book surveys existing literature as well as adds to frontier research. In particular, the following topics are studied: incentives for adoption and diffusion of clean technology, resource scarcity and limits to growth, international convergence of energy intensity, and the social norms shaping resource depletion.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smulders, Sjak

Bretschger, Lucas

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

to Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics.- A Dynamic Model of the Environmental Kuznets Curve: Turning Point and Public Policy.- The Optimal Timing of Adoption of a Green Technology.- Can Environmental Regulations Boost Growth?.- General Purpose Technologies and Energy Policy.- Efficient Dynamic Pollution Taxation in an Uncertain Environment.- A New-Growth Perspective on Non-Renewable Resources.- Sectoral Energy- and Labour-Productivity Convergence.- Spatial Evolution of Social Norms in a Common-Pool Resource Game.- Sustainable Motion in Classical Mechanics: An Economics Perspective.