Green Growth and Sustainable Development

ISBN-13: 9783642448744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 228 str.

Jesús Crespo Cuaresma;Tapio Palokangas;Alexander Tarasyev

Opis

The book examines problems associated with green growth and sustainable development on the basis of recent contributions in economics, natural sciences and applied mathematics, especially optimal control theory. Its main topics include pollution, biodiversity, exhaustible resources and climate change. The integrating framework of the book is dynamic systems theory which offers a common basis for multidisciplinatory research and mathematical tools for solving complicated models, leading to new insights in environmental issues.

Spis treści

Optimal Economic Growth with an Environmental Constraint: The Problem of Optimal Endogenous Growth with Exhaustible Resources Revisited.- Optimal Pollution, Optimal Population, and Sustainability.- Optimal Proportions in Growth Trends of Resource Productivity.- Biodiversity, Abatement and Climate Change: International Biodiversity Management with Technological Change.- Environmental Regulations, Abatement and Economic Growth.- Optimal Control of Growth and Climate Change - Dynamics of Environmental Policy With an Oligopoly: Market Power, Resource Extraction and Pollution: Some Paradoxes and a Unified View.- The Incentive to Invest in Environmental-Friendly Technologies: Dynamics Makes a Difference.- Applications of Dynamic Systems to Energy Supply: Utmost Fear Hypothesis Explores Green Technology Driven Energy for Sustainable Growth.- Transition Toward Renewable Energy Supply - A System Dynamics Approach. ​