nep-env New Economics Papers
on Environmental Economics
Issue of 2016‒02‒12
thirty-one papers chosen by
Francisco S. Ramos
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
  1. Cars, carbon taxes and CO2 emissions By Julius J. Andersson
  2. PES, markets and property rights: a comment on Wunder's revisited concept of PES and a proposal of conceptual framework By Alain Karsenty; Driss Ezzine-De-Blas
  3. The impacts of the EU ETS on Norwegian plants' environmental and economic performance By Marit E. Klemetsen; Knut Einar Rosendahl; Anja Lund Jakobsen
  4. Carbon tax, pollution and spatial location of heterogeneous firms By Nelly Exbrayat; Stéphane Riou; Skerdilajda Zanaj
  5. Waiting or acting now? The effects on willingness-to-pay of delivering inherent uncertainty information in choice experiments By Cati Torres; Michela Faccioli; Antoni Riera
  6. Cumulative Emissions,Unburnable Fossil Fuel and the Optimal Carbon Tax By Armon Rezai; Frederick van der Ploeg
  7. Clean Energy and Sustainable Development lab activity report, 2014-09-31 to 2015-12-31 By Minh Ha-Duong; Hoang Anh Tran
  8. Climate variability and agricultural production in Argentina: the role of risk-transfer mechanisms By Marcos Gallacher; Daniel Lema; Alejandro Galetto; Laura Gastaldi
  9. Sea Level Rise, Radical Uncertainties and Decision-Maker’s Liability: The European Coastal Airports Case By Leonid Sorokin; Gérard Mondello
  10. When economists and ecologists meet on Ecological Economics: two science paths around two interdisciplinary concepts By Olivier Petit; Franck-Dominique Vivien
  11. ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS A ND REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS: BRIDGING THE CONCEPTUAL GAP (International Conference "Recent Advances in Economic and Social Research", 13-14 mai 2015, București) By Catrinel COTAE
  12. Addressing Contextual and Location Biases in the Assessment of Protected Areas Effectiveness on Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazônia By Sonia SCHWARTZ; OLIVIER SANTONI; Jean-Louis COMBES; Pascale COMBES MOTEL; Johanna CHOUMERT; Eric Nazindigouba KERE
  13. Economic Development and Forest Cover: Evidence from Satellite Data By Jesus Crespo Cuaresma; Olha Danylo; Steffen Fritz; Ian McCallum; Michael Obersteiner; Linda See
  14. Climate, Shocks, Weather and Maize Intensification Decisions in Rural Kenya By Martina Bozzola; Melinda Smale; Salvatore Di Falco
  15. Addressing Contextual and Location Biases in the Assessment of Protected Areas Effectiveness on Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazônia By Eric Nazindigouba Kere; Johanna Choumert; Pascale Combes Motel; Jean-Louis Combes; Olivier Santoni; Sonia Schwartz
  16. Sustainable development and industrial development: Manufacturing environmental performance, technology and consumption/production perspectives By Mazzanti, M.; Nicolli, F.; Marin, G.; Gilli, M.
  17. Ressources naturelles renouvelables et comptabilité des organisations By Michel Trommetter
  18. Amounts Mobilised from the Private Sector by Official Development Finance Interventions: Guarantees, syndicated loans and shares in collective investment vehicles By Julia Benn; Cécile Sangaré; Giovanni Maria Semeraro
  19. Technological change in developing countries: Trade-offs between economic, social, and environmental sustainability By Massa, Isabella
  20. Measuring Willingness to Pay for Environmental Attributes in Seafood By Villas-Boas, Sofia B; Hilger, James; Stevens, Andrew; Hallstein, Eric
  21. Russia and China hydrocarbon relations A building block toward international hydrocarbon regulation? By Catherine Locatelli; Mehdi Abbas; Sylvain Rossiaud
  22. Making ambitious green goals compatible with economic dynamics by a strategic approach By Karl Aiginger
  23. Other regarding preferences and reciprocity:insights from experimental findings and satisfaction data. By Leonardo Becchetti; Vittorio Pelligra; Serena F. Taurino
  24. Why Give Aid to Resource-Rich Autocrats? By Mare Sarr; Chiara Ravetti; Tim Swanson
  25. Introduction By Faïz Gallouj; Marja Toivonen
  26. MESURER L’ECONOMIE CIRCULAIRE A L’ECHELLE TERRITORIALE :UNE ANALYSE SYSTEMIQUE DE LA GESTION DES MATIERES ORGANIQUES A BRUXELLES By Stephan Kampelmann
  27. Public Service Innovation: Solid Waste Sector from the Perspective of Clean Development Mechanism Landfill Projects By Silvia Cruz; Sônia Paulino; Faïz Gallouj
  28. Using Natural Resources for Development: Why Has It Proven So Difficult? By Venables, Anthony J
  29. Le système monétaire international face aux critères du développement durable By Michel Lelart
  30. Ecological Macreconomics: Introduction and Review By Armon Rezai; Sigrid Stagl
  31. A educação e os direitos humanos para o desenvolvimento humano sustentável By Gianna Alessandra Sanchez Moretti
  1. By: Julius J. Andersson
    Abstract: Is a carbon tax effective in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, and thereby mitigating climate change? I estimate the reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the transport sector in Sweden during the years 1990 to 2005 as a result of the introduction of a carbon tax and a value added tax (VAT) on transport fuel in the years 1990-1991. To capture the causal effect on emissions I construct a synthetic Sweden, the counterfactual Sweden that does not receive the ‘treatment’ in 1990-1991, using the synthetic control method. The results show a reduction in emissions of 10.9% during the post-treatment period of 1990-2005, equivalent to 2.5 million metric tons of CO2 in the annual total. Looking at the effect of the carbon tax in isolation I estimate a post-treatment reduction of 4.9%, equivalent to 1.1 million metric tons of CO2 in an average year. The results are robust to a series of placebo tests, both in-time and in-space. Taken together, my findings show that a carbon tax can be an efficient tool to mitigate climate change.
    Date: 2015–10
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lsg:lsgwps:wp212&r=env
  2. By: Alain Karsenty (CIRAD - CIRAD - Besef); Driss Ezzine-De-Blas (CIRAD - CIRAD - Besef)
    Abstract: Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are often described as market-based instruments as they are used to change relative prices, and therefore to provide incentives. Following the line of thought of institutional economists, we argue that a market is a place for the transfer of property rights (the right to perform certain actions), beyond the goods and services which are exchanged. We underline the need for aclear distinction between " ecosystem services " (services obtained by peoplefromnature) and " environmental services " (services rendered by people to other people). Against Wunder's (2015) interpretation, we explain why ecosystem services are, by nature, collective or public goods, and as such do not lend themselves to appropriation.We argue also that appropriation is a precondition of exchanges, even in a service economy, unless admitting that there are markets without exchange. In PES there is no transfer of property rights: the holders simply freeze or use their ownland development rights. PES embedded into REDD+ projects, which are " backedagainst the carbon market " , and PES in which service's providres are selected through auctions: these PES can be analysed as " hybrids " combining a market-based procedure and bilateral agreements about setting environmental easements.
    Keywords: payment for environmental services,market-based instruments,markets,commodification,utilitarianism,incentives
    Date: 2016
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-01262380&r=env
  3. By: Marit E. Klemetsen; Knut Einar Rosendahl; Anja Lund Jakobsen (Statistics Norway)
    Abstract: This paper examines the impacts of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) on the environmental and economic performance of Norwegian plants. The EU ETS is regarded as the cornerstone climate policy both in the EU and in Norway, but there has been considerable debate regarding its effects due to low quota prices and substantial allocation of free allowances to the manufacturing industry. Both quota prices and allocation rules have changed significantly between the three phases of the ETS. The rich data allow us to investigate potential effects of the ETS on several important aspects of plant behavior. The results indicate a weak tendency of emissions reductions among Norwegian plants in the second phase of the ETS, but not in the other phases. We find no significant effects on emissions intensity in any of the phases, but positive effects on value added and productivity in the second phase. Positive effects on value added and productivity may be due to the large amounts of free allowances, and that plants may have passed on the additional marginal costs to consumers.
    Keywords: Tradable emissions quotas; emissions intensity; productivity; propensity score matching; difference-in-differences
    JEL: C23 C54 D22 Q54 Q58
    Date: 2016–02
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ssb:dispap:833&r=env
  4. By: Nelly Exbrayat (GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne - Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Etienne - PRES Université de Lyon - ENS Lyon - École normale supérieure - Lyon); Stéphane Riou (GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne - Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Etienne - PRES Université de Lyon - ENS Lyon - École normale supérieure - Lyon); Skerdilajda Zanaj (CREA - Center for Research in Economic Analysis - Uni.lu - Université du Luxembourg, CREA - Centre for Research in Economics and Management - Uni.lu - Université du Luxembourg)
    Abstract: This paper investigates the ability of a fully harmonized carbon tax to curb carbon emissions in a globalized economy characterized by an uneven spatial distribution of heterogeneous firms. The level of the carbon tax matters for the direction of the relocation and its impact on global emissions. When the carbon tax is low enough, emissions are reduced as firms relocate to the smaller country to pay lower taxes by reducing their output. If the carbon tax is too high, then firms react by relocating to the larger country to maintain their export activity, so that the most environmentally friendly spatial configurations can be removed.
    Keywords: global carbon tax, heterogeneous firms, international trade, firm location
    Date: 2016
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:halshs-01256905&r=env
  5. By: Cati Torres (Universitat de les Illes Balears); Michela Faccioli (Universitat de les Illes Balears); Antoni Riera (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
    Abstract: With a focus on expected climate change (CC) risks, this paper analyzes the effects of inherent uncertainty on the willingness-to-pay for a preservation policy. To do this, it relates outcome uncertainty to the probability of occurrence of an expected CC impact within a given time horizon. Thus, unlike the existing studies, this paper links outcome uncertainty to the uncontrollable component of environmental uncertainty derived from the stochastic nature of ecosystems’ behavior. Results show the support for the preservation policy is stronger in the presence of inherent uncertainty, this indicating risk aversion. In contrast, findings are not conclusive with respect to individuals’ sensitivity to the probability of impact occurrence. These results are policy relevant since they can serve to stimulate rather than discourage environmental action when it comes to contexts characterized by many uncertainties.
    Keywords: preference analysis, inherent uncertainty, choice experiment, adaptation, climate change.
    JEL: D6 D81 Q51 Q54
    Date: 2015
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ubi:deawps:74&r=env
  6. By: Armon Rezai (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria); Frederick van der Ploeg (Oxford University, Manor Road Building, Oxford OX1 3UQ, U.K.)
    Abstract: A new IAM is used to calculate the optimal tradeoff between, on the one hand,locking up fossil fuel and curbing global warming, and, on the other hand, are the key driving force of changes in temperature. We highlight how time impatience, intergenerational inequality aversion and expected trend growth affect the time paths of the optimal global carbon tax and the optimal amount of fossil fuel reserves to leave untapped. We also compare these with the adverse and deleterious global warming trajectories that occur if no policy actions are taken.
    Keywords: unburnable fossil fuel, cumulative emissions, optimal carbon tax,Oxford carbon cycle, trend growth, intergenerational inequality aversion, time impatience
    Date: 2016–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wiw:wiwiee:ieep8&r=env
  7. By: Minh Ha-Duong (CIRED - Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CIRAD - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC) - AgroParisTech - AgroParisTech, CleanED - Clean Energy and Sustainable Development Lab - USTH - Université des Sciences et des Technologies de Hanoi); Hoang Anh Tran (CleanED - Clean Energy and Sustainable Development Lab - USTH - Université des Sciences et des Technologies de Hanoi)
    Abstract: The Clean Energy and Sustainable Development laboratory – CleanED – was established in December 2014 with support from USTH and French Embassy in Hanoi. In September 2015, CleanED lab counted five researchers from France and Vietnam, five doctoral fellows and two internationally qualified staff. This international and interdisciplinary research team gets the mission to contribute to the green growth of the energy sector in Vietnam. Its expertise ranges from engineering to public policy on: Natural resources characterization and management Biomass and waste to energy conversion process technologies Energy systems optimization from smart grid to national plans
    Keywords: clean energy, biomass energy, sustainable development, Vietnam, cooperation, activity report, smart grid
    Date: 2016–01–27
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-01264985&r=env
  8. By: Marcos Gallacher; Daniel Lema; Alejandro Galetto; Laura Gastaldi
    Abstract: Research related to climate variability is particularly important in the current conditions faced by Argentine agriculture. These include (a) increased specialization in soybeans, with resulting reduced possibilities of risk-reduction though “portfolio” effects, (b) increased importance of agriculture in “non-traditional” areas, generally characterized by lower yields, higher yield variability and higher production and transport costs, (c) macroeconomic instability resulting in severe contraction and increased interest rates of credit and (d) upward trend in input use and per-acre production costs with consequent increase in break-even crop yields. This paper summarize recent research related to production variability in Argentine agriculture, as well as the consequences of this variability on efficiency and resource allocation and present an overview of strategies for coping with climate variability. We estimate possible benefits to agricultural producers of improved risk-transfer mechanisms. In particular, we obtain estimates of Willingness-to-Pay (WTP) of selected index-type insurance mechanisms for soybean and milk production and outline the requirements for the development of a risk-transfer market for agricultural producers.
    Date: 2015–12
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cem:doctra:583&r=env
  9. By: Leonid Sorokin (GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Gérard Mondello (GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
    Abstract: Until now, most of the growing climate legal litigations mainly concern environmental associations or victims against energy of energy-users firms or States. However, in a near future, because of exacerbating sudden floods linked to climate change, future litigations could (will) concern infrastructure governance versus private companies. Indeed, sues would (will) concern the financial losses these last ones would (will) endure because the infrastructure managers did not made convenient protection choices in due time. This paper particularly investigates the case of coastal airports at the European level. It insists on the importance of climate scientists divergent opinions about the sea level rise and its consequences for decision-takers concerning their potential legal liability for negligence.
    Keywords: Climate Change, Sea level rise, flood, airports, transportation infrastructures, legal liability, uncertainty.
    Date: 2015–12
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-01251476&r=env
  10. By: Olivier Petit (UA - Université d'Artois, CLERSE - Centre lillois d'études et de recherches sociologiques et économiques - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Université Lille 1 - Sciences et technologies); Franck-Dominique Vivien (Regards - EA 6292 - Laboratoire d'économie et gestion de Reims - URCA - Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne)
    Abstract: Ecological economics essentially grew out of economists working in the environmental field and growing dissatisfied with the way that standard economics saw interactions between nature and societies and ecologists anxious to take human activities (including economic) into account in a much more direct way, within the dynamic of the ecosystems on which they depend. This clearly inscribed the new field of ecological economics within an interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary perspective. In order to try to provide some thoughts on the evolution of this trend and the relationship between economists and ecologists, we have chosen to focus on two items 1 that are undoubtedly among the achievements of ecological economics, although their mobilization is far from uniform among the authors who make use of them: coevolution and ecosystem services. In order to do so, the itinerary of two authors recognized in the field of ecological economics will be examined: Richard B. Norgaard, whose work on the coevolutionary paradigm (Norgaard, 1994) is recognized as one of the foundations of ecological economics (Munda, 1997); Robert Costanza, who initiated work on the monetary valuation of ecosystem services 1 For the moment, we would like to use the generic term for the subject. We shall see later that these subjects may be alternatively (and often also simultaneously) used as metaphors, concepts, and instruments of public policy. 2 (Costanza et al., 1997) that is a marker in the field of ecological economics. What unites these two authors is a manifest interest in the work coming out of systems analysis in the 1970s-as we shall see, that interest ultimately led to fairly contrasting visions of the field of ecological economics.
    Keywords: ecological economics,coevolution,ecosystem services,interdisciplinarity
    Date: 2015–06–30
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01249774&r=env
  11. By: Catrinel COTAE (PhD student, „Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest, Romania)
    Abstract: Given the controversial discourse characterising competitiveness, the article aims to present a different perspective regarding the quantification of regional performances. The challenge addressed here is that of a too extensive conceptual background that although characterised by pluri-perspectivism in approached, it is still not providing consistent evidence to define a clear connection between competitiveness levels and risk factors. Existing literature focuses on presenting complicated taxonomies for environmental risks, mitigation mechanisms partly addressing the worrisome trends of resource depletion and ecosystem erosion. In search for a method to include a new set of risk factors and in an attempt to identify which of those account for the economic stagnation or decline of a region in terms of competitiveness level, a conceptual clarification is needed. After reflecting on the existing perspectives in the field, a couple of prerequisites for a conceptual framework are provided, positing that environmental risk for the business level can be better understood conceptually at firm level and approached for operational purposes on a regional level. The study henceforth coagulates the conceptual links between environmental risks [ER] and the overall level of regional competitiveness providing insight on the corporate strategy dimensionality of sustainability and productive dependence. Subsequently, on one hand, it is possible to provide a set of key principles acting as building blocks for assessment purposes and on the other, to present an alternative conceptual construct.
    Keywords: environmental risks; regional performance; competitiveness; operational; mitigation.
    JEL: R11 R12 R58
    Date: 2015–12
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rjr:wpconf:151204&r=env
  12. By: Sonia SCHWARTZ (Université d'Auvergne(UdA)); OLIVIER SANTONI (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International(CERDI)); Jean-Louis COMBES (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International(CERDI)); Pascale COMBES MOTEL (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International(CERDI)); Johanna CHOUMERT (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International(CERDI)); Eric Nazindigouba KERE
    Abstract: Using a remotely sensed pixel data set, we develop a multilevel model and propensity score weighting with multilevel data to assess the impact of protected areas on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. These techniques allow taking into account location bias, contextual bias and the dependence of spatial units. The results suggest that protected areas have slowed down deforestation between 2005 and 2009, whatever the type of governance. The results also evidence that protected and unprotected areas do not share the same location characteristics. In addition, the effectiveness of protected areas differs according to socioeconomic and environmental variables measured at municipal level.
    Keywords: Brazilian Legal Amazon, Protected areas, deforestation, Impact analysis.
    JEL: Q57 Q28 Q23 C21
    Date: 2016–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cdi:wpaper:1777&r=env
  13. By: Jesus Crespo Cuaresma (Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business); Olha Danylo (International Intitute for Applied Systems Analysis); Steffen Fritz (International Intitute for Applied Systems Analysis); Ian McCallum (International Intitute for Applied Systems Analysis); Michael Obersteiner (International Intitute for Applied Systems Analysis); Linda See (International Intitute for Applied Systems Analysis)
    Abstract: We use satellite data on forest cover along national borders in order to study the determinants of deforestation differences across countries. We combine the forest cover information with data on homogeneous response units, which allow us to control for cross-country geoclimatic differences when assessing the drivers of deforestation. Income per capita appears to be the most robust determinant of differences in cross-border forest cover and our results present evidence of the existence of decreasing effects of income on forest cover as economic development progresses.
    Keywords: deforestation, environmental Kuznets curve, national borders
    JEL: Q23 Q56
    Date: 2016–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wiw:wiwwuw:wuwp215&r=env
  14. By: Martina Bozzola; Melinda Smale; Salvatore Di Falco
    Abstract: We explore how climate, climate risk and weather affect maize intensification among smallholders in Kenya. We find that they all play an important role in maize intensification choice. The economic implications of this choice are also analyzed. We find that the share of maize area planted to hybrid seeds contributes positively to expected crop income, without increasing exposure to income variability or downside risk. The promotion of maize intensification is potentially a valuable adaptation strategy to support the well-being of smallholder farmers.
    Keywords: Climate Change, Maize, Smallholder farmer, Vulnerability, Kenya.
    JEL: D81 O13 Q12 Q18
    Date: 2016–01–08
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gii:ciesrp:cies_rp_40&r=env
  15. By: Eric Nazindigouba Kere (CERDI - Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international - Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Johanna Choumert (CERDI - Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international - Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Pascale Combes Motel (CERDI - Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international - Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Jean-Louis Combes (CERDI - Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international - Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Olivier Santoni (CERDI [CERDI] - Centre d'études et de recherches sur le développement international - CNRS [CNRS]); Sonia Schwartz (CERDI - Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international - Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
    Abstract: Using a remotely sensed pixel data set, we develop a multilevel model and propensity score weighting with multilevel data to assess the impact of protected areas on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. These techniques allow taking into account location bias, contextual bias and the dependence of spatial units. The results suggest that protected areas have slowed down deforestation between 2005 and 2009, whatever the type of governance. The results also evidence that protected and unprotected areas do not share the same location characteristics. In addition, the effectiveness of protected areas differs according to socioeconomic and environmental variables measured at municipal level.
    Keywords: Brazilian Legal Amazon,Protected areas,deforestation,Impact analysis.
    Date: 2016–01–15
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:halshs-01256600&r=env
  16. By: Mazzanti, M. (Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara); Nicolli, F. (IRCrES-CNR, Milano); Marin, G. (IRCrES-CNR, Milano); Gilli, M. (Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara)
    Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse the environmental performances of manufacturing sectors and their main drivers, (economic factors, technology, trade). We analyse the dynamic development of environmental performances, in absolute terms and in 'productivity' terms, through both decomposition and econometric analyses. The analysis aims to highlight differences over time, across geographical areas, by country income categories and by sector technological classes. Strong emphasis is assigned to the comparison of consumption and production perspectives.
    Keywords: Environmental Performance, Sustainability, Consumption, Production
    JEL: E21 O11 Q56
    Date: 2015–12–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:unm:unumer:2015050&r=env
  17. By: Michel Trommetter (GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble - Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA) - Université Grenoble Alpes - Grenoble 2)
    Abstract: Face aux défis environnementaux – changement climatique et érosion de la biodiversité -, il ne s'agit pas nécessairement de remettre en cause le système capitaliste, mais de le réformer pour que le maintien, voire la création, de capital naturel soit créateur de valeur. Pour une organisation, la création de valeur passe aujourd'hui par un système comptable internationalement reconnu. Nous proposons donc dans ce papier des pistes de travail pour construire de nouvelles règles comptables, par exemple en termes d'amortissement ou d'augmentation du capital, qui permettent de mieux intégrer les questions de biodiversité dans la stratégie des organisations.
    Date: 2015
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01254938&r=env
  18. By: Julia Benn; Cécile Sangaré; Giovanni Maria Semeraro
    Abstract: According to the 2015 DAC Survey on mobilisation, USD 36.4 billion was mobilised from the private sector in 2012-14 through official development finance interventions in the form of guarantees, syndicated loans and shares in collective investment vehicles (development-related investment funds). Overall flows followed an upward trend over the period covered by the survey, with guarantees mobilising the largest share (59%). Multilateral development banks took the lead in mobilising finance mostly through guarantees, followed by the national development finance institutions. Middle-income countries received the largest share of the amount mobilised, mainly targeting the energy, industry and banking sectors. Of the total amount mobilised, 19% was climate-related, most of it focusing on climate change mitigation. This working paper provides more details about the Survey results.
    Keywords: mobilisation, development finance
    Date: 2016–02–10
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:oec:dcdaaa:26-en&r=env
  19. By: Massa, Isabella (Overseas Development Institute)
    Abstract: Over the past years, the manufacturing sector has gone through a period of significant technological change. Technological innovation may bring significant socio-economic benefits and improve the environmental prospects, but it may also pose severe challenges to the economy, human well-being, and the environment. The aim of this paper is to review and discuss the existing literature on the economic/social, social/environmental, and environmental/economic trade-offs stemming from technological change in the manufacturing sector, with a focus on developing countries. The policy designs proposed in the literature to minimise the trade-offs arising from technological innovation and to achieve technology-driven sustained economic growth, social inclusiveness and environmental sustainability are also examined.
    Keywords: technological change, developing countries, manufacturing, trade-offs, growth, inclusiveness, social inclusion, social exclusion, environmental sustainability
    JEL: O11 O13 O14 O15 O33 O38
    Date: 2015–12–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:unm:unumer:2015051&r=env
  20. By: Villas-Boas, Sofia B; Hilger, James; Stevens, Andrew; Hallstein, Eric
    Keywords: Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Date: 2016–02–08
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cdl:agrebk:qt6nh0g7fg&r=env
  21. By: Catherine Locatelli (équipe EDDEN - PACTE - Politiques publiques, ACtion politique, TErritoires - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Grenoble 2 UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - UJF - Université Joseph Fourier); Mehdi Abbas (équipe EDDEN - PACTE - Politiques publiques, ACtion politique, TErritoires - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Grenoble 2 UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - UJF - Université Joseph Fourier); Sylvain Rossiaud (équipe EDDEN - PACTE - Politiques publiques, ACtion politique, TErritoires - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Grenoble 2 UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - UJF - Université Joseph Fourier)
    Abstract: This article is a first step of a research agenda on international hydrocarbon regulations. With regards to both: i) the new wealth and power equilibrium in the international political economy and ii) the new political economy of carbon that is emerging from The Paris agreement on Climate changes, this research agenda aims at analysing the changing national structures of governance and the ways these changes lead to international, bilateral, plurilateral or multilateral hydrocarbon regulation.
    Keywords: hydrocarbon regulation,international governance
    Date: 2015–12
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-01246346&r=env
  22. By: Karl Aiginger
    Date: 2016–02
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:feu:wfeppr:y:2016:m:2:d:0:i:30&r=env
  23. By: Leonardo Becchetti (CEIS, University of Rome Tor Vergata); Vittorio Pelligra (University of Cagliari, CRENoS); Serena F. Taurino (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
    Abstract: We measure satisfaction about experimental outcomes, personal and other participants' behaviour after a multiperiod "hybrid contribution" multiplayer prisoner's dilemma called the "vote with the wallet" game. Our work shows that participants who cooperated above median (which we define as strong cooperators) are significantly more satisfied with the game in proportion to their cooperative choice. On the contrary, their satisfaction for the other players' behavior is negatively correlated with the extent of their own cooperative behavior and the non-cooperative behavior of the latter. The satisfaction of strong cooperators for their behavior in the game depends in turn on the share of their own cooperative choices. We document that a broader utility function including heterogeneity in expectations on other players' behavior, other-regarding preferences, and a negative reciprocity argument may account for the combination of the observed experimental and satisfaction findings.
    Date: 2016–02–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rtv:ceisrp:363&r=env
  24. By: Mare Sarr; Chiara Ravetti; Tim Swanson
    Abstract: Why give aid to resource-rich autocrats? We find that the interaction between natural resources and most forms of international aid results in enhanced political instability in most autocratic countries. Interestingly, some types of government aid (notably humanitarian aid) do not have this effect, indicating that the impact of aid varies with its form. Furthermore, we find that only aid structured in the form of loans (rather than grants) is more likely to flow toward resource-rich autocracies. This combination of loans with any political instability they may induce, can create speculative rights (for the donor) in the resource-riches of the recipient country. This potential claim on resources provides one important strategic reason to give aid to resource-rich autocrats. Aid can act as a form of foreign intervention in the pursuit of regime change, and claims on resources.
    Keywords: Foreign Aid; Resource Curse; Economic Growth; Dictatorship; Looting.
    JEL: O11 O13 F35
    Date: 2015–11–23
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gii:ciesrp:cies_rp_39&r=env
  25. By: Faïz Gallouj (Clersé, Centre lillois d’études et de recherches sociologiques et économiques - USTL - Université des Sciences et Technologies (Lille 1)); Marja Toivonen (VTT Information technology - Technical Research Centre of Finland)
    Abstract: Contemporary economies are inescapably service economies, innovation economies and sustainable development economies. The articles included in this issue of the Journal of Inspiration Economy are devoted (independently or in an interlinked way) to these three themes which have obvious relationships with the inspiration issue: i) services and particularly cultural and creative services, ii) innovation and entrepreneurship in their various forms (technological and non-technological innovation, business and social entrepreneurship) and iii) sustainable development, particularly in its environmental dimension.
    Keywords: innovation,services,sustainable development
    Date: 2015–09
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01247618&r=env
  26. By: Stephan Kampelmann
    Abstract: L’économie circulaire connait un engouement réel et apparaît comme une approche prometteuse pour rompre avec les flux linéaires qui commencent par l’extraction d’une ressource et finissent par la création d’un déchet. Mobilisant la théorie des systèmes socio-écologiques et différents indicateurs d’impact, cet article souligne l’existence de trajectoires alternatives vers la circularisation de l’économie – et que ces alternatives ne sont pas neutres quant à leurs conséquences économiques, sociales et environnementales. La mesure de ces conséquences pour le cas des flux des matières organiques dans la métropole bruxelloise permet de faire ressortir deux trajectoires potentielles :celle d’une « troisième révolution industrielle », avec une prolongation de la logique de croissance économique basée sur l’accumulation de capital et une expansion quantitative, et celle d’une « post-croissance » créatrice d’une nouvelle organisation polycentrique du travail et d’un développement qualitatif moins intensif en capital.
    JEL: H54 L52 L97 O22 Q57
    Date: 2016
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ulb:ulbeco:2013/226158&r=env
  27. By: Silvia Cruz (UNICAMP - University of Campinas [Campinas] - University of Campinas); Sônia Paulino (University of Sao Paolo); Faïz Gallouj (Clersé - UMR CNRS 8019 - Institut de Sociologie et d'Anthropologie - Université Lille 1 - Sciences et technologies)
    Abstract: This paper is devoted to public services innovation in the municipal solid waste sector. It analyses the implementation of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in the Bandeirantes and São João landfills in the municipality of São Paulo, Brazil. The study is based on the concept of Public-Private Innovation Networks in services (ServPPINs). Using the ServPPIN concept it was possible to identify competence gaps affecting the stakeholders involved in these CDM projects. We focus in particular on those organisational and relational competence gaps that are likely to weaken innovation feasibility in services related to solid waste. In fact, innovation is closely linked to the development of new competences among service providers and users. For the most part, these will arise out of changes in interactions between actors-given that the projects in question include the coordination of various actors (public, private, and citizen).
    Keywords: landfill,public service innovation,clean development mechanism,ServPPIN
    Date: 2015–09
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01247615&r=env
  28. By: Venables, Anthony J
    Abstract: Developing economies have found it hard to use natural resource wealth to improve their economic performance. Utilising resource endowments is a multi-stage economic and political problem that requires private investment to discover and extract the resource, fiscal regimes to capture revenue, judicious spending and investment decisions, and policies to manage volatility and mitigate adverse impacts on the rest of the economy. Experience is mixed, with some successes (such as Botswana and Malaysia) and more failures. This paper reviews the challenges that are faced in successfully managing resource wealth, the evidence on country performance, and the reasons for disappointing results.
    Keywords: depletion; diversification; Dutch disease; genuine saving.; Natural resources; non-renewable; resource curse; revenue management
    JEL: Q3
    Date: 2016–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:11038&r=env
  29. By: Michel Lelart (LEO - Laboratoire d'économie d'Orleans - UO - Université d'Orléans - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
    Abstract: Les Accords de Bretton Woods en 1944 ont mis en place un système monétaire international qui n’en était pas un puisqu’il était un système monétaire sans monnaie. C’est le dollar qui peu à peu a rempli cette fonction. Soixante-dix ans après, quelques réformes ont été adoptées mais rien de fondamental n’a été changé à cet égard. Quelques autres monnaies sont utilisées entre les pays, mais le dollar reste la principale monnaie internationale. Avec le bilan des OMD, l’actualité accorde une large place aux objectifs du développement durable. Le système monétaire international n’a guère d’impact à cet égard, mais il peut être intéressant d’analyser les mécanismes qui sous-tendent ce système du dollar à la lumière des critères du développement durable. Après un rapide retour sur le système de Bretton Woods, nous verrons que la création du dollar comme monnaie internationale se fait chaque jour en méconnaissance de l’intérêt des parties prenantes, puis que l’accumulation des avoirs et des engagements en dollars dans le monde se fait au fil des années en méconnaissance de l’intérêt des générations futures.
    Keywords: système monétaire international, endettement, création monnaie internationale, accumulation, développement durable.
    Date: 2015
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:halshs-01252318&r=env
  30. By: Armon Rezai (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria); Sigrid Stagl (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria)
    Abstract: The Great Recession of the past years has brought macroeconomics back. Many of the recession's phenomena, causes and consequences alike, cannot be understood using solely microeconomic decisionmaking. Over the past decades the economics profession has pursued the implications of rational choices and enshrined them in so-called "micro foundations" as a hallmark of modern economic theory. By focusing on the choices and actions of individual consumers, firms, or the government, however, one can easily miss important determinants of the economic system which only arise at the meso- or the macroeconomic levels where institutions, coordination, and complexity in general are important and sometimes even can take on a life of their own. To lesser extent, ecological economics has fallen prone to similar pitfalls by mostly focusing the unit of investigation on low-level, small-scale subsystems of the economy. There are, of course, notable exceptions including the early contributors Boulding and Georgescu-Roegen and the general interest of ecological economists in the field of (ecological) macroeconomics has been increasing.
    Date: 2016–01
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wiw:wiwiee:ieep9&r=env
  31. By: Gianna Alessandra Sanchez Moretti (IPC-IG)
    Abstract: "A Declaração das Nações Unidas sobre o Direito ao Desenvolvimento (1986) define o desenvolvimento como um processo econômico, social, cultural e político que visa melhorar o bem-estar das populações e dos indivíduos. O desenvolvimento é um processo e um nível de realização que engloba vários elementos de bem-estar. A partir dessa premissa, pode-se dizer que um elemento crucial e estimulante para o desenvolvimento é a educação. No entanto, existem alegações de que a comunidade internacional e os governos, raramente, reconhecem e investem no pleno potencial e poder transformador da educação, como catalisador para o desenvolvimento humano (UNESCO, 2014)." (...)
    Keywords: educação, direitos humanos, desenvolvimento humano sustentável
    Date: 2016–02
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ipc:opport:307&r=env
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