Green Growth and Sustainable Development

✍ Scribed by Sergey Aseev, Konstantin Besov, Serguei Kaniovski (auth.), Jesús Crespo Cuaresma, Tapio Palokangas, Alexander Tarasyev (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 229
Series: Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance 14
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Problem of Optimal Endogenous Growth with Exhaustible Resources Revisited....Pages 3-30
Optimal Pollution, Optimal Population, and Sustainability....Pages 31-47
Optimal Proportions in Growth Trends of Resource Productivity....Pages 49-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
International Biodiversity Management with Technological Change....Pages 69-85
Environmental Regulations, Abatement and Economic Growth....Pages 87-111
Optimal Control of Growth and Climate Change—Exploration of Scenarios....Pages 113-139
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Market Power, Resource Extraction and Pollution: Some Paradoxes and a Unified View....Pages 143-164
The Incentive to Invest in Environmental-Friendly Technologies: Dynamics Makes a Difference....Pages 165-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Utmost Fear Hypothesis Explores Green Technology Driven Energy for Sustainable Growth....Pages 191-216
Transition Towards Renewable Energy Supply—A System Dynamics Approach....Pages 217-226

✦ Subjects

Economic Growth; Systems Theory, Control; Sustainable Development; Environmental Economics; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization; Economic Theory

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