Environmental Social Accounting Matrices: Theory and applications

ISBN-13: 9780415776301 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 208 str.

Pablo Martínez de Anguita;John E. Wagner

Opis

Combining regional & ecological economics, the authors present a way to understand ecological economic concerns from a regional perspective, & offer a mathematical tool to measure their interrelationships.

This book covers a wide range of topics in mathematical modelling of interlinked economic, technological and environmental processes. The main unifying theme of the book is the integration of applied mathematical models that describe and optimize the mutual impact of economy, demography, technological change, and the environment on global, regional and local levels.

Emphasis is placed on optimization methods and deterministic dynamic models that take age structures, delay effects, and non-standard decision variables into account, and the authors explicitly deal with the age structure of assets, resources, and populations under study.

The integrated interdisciplinary modelling has enormous potential for discovering new insights in global and regional development. The articles illustrate the fruitful interaction between applied mathematics, economics, demography, environment sciences, management sciences, and operations research in exploiting global and local change.