Sustainability Dynamics and Uncertainty

of ecological (also biological) variables b which interact in their dynamic t evolution: det dbt dt = f (et, bt)' dt = 9 (et, bt)· Among the solution paths to this interaction between economic and ecologi­ cal variables, we look for those which are sustainable. Sustainable paths are typically t...

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Other Authors: Chichilnisky, Graciela (Editor), Heal, Geoffrey (Editor), Vercelli, A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
Series:Economics, Energy and Environment
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a 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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520 |a of ecological (also biological) variables b which interact in their dynamic t evolution: det dbt dt = f (et, bt)' dt = 9 (et, bt)· Among the solution paths to this interaction between economic and ecologi­ cal variables, we look for those which are sustainable. Sustainable paths are typically those along which the values of certain key stocks are always pos­ itive, these key stocks being important environmental resources. The types of paths on which certain variables can be positive forever include station­ ary solutions with appropriate positivity conditions, or limit cycles or chaotic attractors satisfying the same positivity conditions. These paths, and the paths which approach them, constitute the set of sustainable paths. From amongst these we have to choose one or more which are in some sense the best. Note that rather than imposing positivity of certain stocks in the long run as a condition for sustainability, we would prefer to derive this as a characteristic of optimal solutions from more fundamental judgements about the valuation of stocks and flows: this is the route pursued by the papers in this volume. The introductory paper by Heal in Section I reviews these matters in gen­ eral terms, not going into technical details: it discusses the precedents for a concept of sustainability in welfare economics, and reviews alternative opti­ mality concepts and their connection to sustainability