The Global Environment, Natural Resources, and Economic Growth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

AvAlfred Greiner,Willi Semmler,Germany) Greiner, Alfred (Professor of Business Administration and Economics, Professor of Business Administration and Economics, Bielefeld University,New School University) Semmler, Willi (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics

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Recently, the public attention has turned toward the intricate interrelation between economic growth and global warming. This book focuses on this nexus but broadens the framework to study the issue. Growth is seen as global growth, which affects the global environment and climate change. Global growth, in particular high economic growth rates, imply a fast depletion of renewable and non-renewable resources. Thus this book deals with the impact of the environment and the effect of the exhaustive use of natural resources on economic growth and welfare of market economies as well as the reverse linkage. It is arranged in three parts: Part I of the book discusses the environment and growth. There, Greiner and Semmler incorporate the role of environmental pollution into modern endogenous growth models and use recently developed dynamic methods and techniques to derive appropriate abatement activities that policymakers can institute. Part II looks at global climate change using these same growth models. Here, too, the authors provide direct and transparent policy implications. More specifically, the authors favour tax measures, such as a carbon tax, over emission trading as instruments of mitigation policies. Part III evaluates the use and overuse of renewable and non-renewable resources in the context of a variety of dynamic models. They, in particular, consider the cases when resources interact as an ecological system and analyze issues of ownership of resources as well as policy measures to avoid the overuse of resources. In addition, not only intertemporal resource allocation but also the eminent issues relating to intertemporal inequities, as well as policy measures to overcome them, are discussed in each part of the book.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-08-14
Mått236 x 160 x 25 mm
Vikt508 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor220
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780195328233

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Alfred Greiner is professor of Economics at Bielefeld University. His research interests are in dynamic macroeconomics with special emphasis on topics in economic growth and fiscal policy. He has published numerous articles and was invited to author the survey article "Models of Economic Growth" for the UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. Willi Semmler is Chair and Professor of Economics at New School University, co-director of the Center for Empirical Macroeconomics, Bielefeld University and Research Fellow at the Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis. He is the author of numerous articles and several books including Stochastic Dynamic Macroeconomics (OUP, 2006).

PART I The Environment and Economic Growth1: Introduction and Overview2: The Basic Economic Model3: Growth and Welfare Effects of Fiscal Policy4: The Dynamics of the Model with Standard Preferences5: Pollution as a Stock6PART II Global Warming and Economic Growth7: Introduction and Overview8: Facts on GHG Emissions and the Change in Average Global SurfaceTemperature9: A Descriptive Model of Endogenous Growth10: The AK Endogenous Growth Model11: A Model with Optimizing Agents12: Concluding RemarksPART III Depletion of Resources and Economic Growth13: Introduction and Overview14: Non-Renewable Resources15: Renewable Resources16: Regulation of Resources17: Conclusion

Issues concerning the global environment, natural resources and economic growth are at the heart of a great deal of current political and social debate. Greiner and Semmler in this book address these issues within the framework of modern economic theory, in particular applying the techniques of intertemporal optimal growth theory. They develop an integrated framework for the study of environmental and climate issues as well as those concerning renewable and non-renewable resources. As a result they present a range of simple models that give policy insights and policy recommendations. This book should be of interest to applied economists, climate change modellers and environmental policy makers.

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