Ill-behaviour of transformation-frontiers with environmental quality versus pollution |
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Authors: | Wolfgang J. Ströbele |
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Affiliation: | (1) University of Oldenburg, Germany |
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Abstract: | If one looks at environmental quality N as a renewable natural resource (with its own natural dynamics) which is changed by emissions Z, then one gets a better understanding of the shape of the damage function. In the case of a logistic growth dynamics one obtains a well-shaped transformation frontier N(Z), even in a two-species natural dynamics. For a more general natural interaction in the framework of a prey-predator model one obtains the possibilities of a cusp catastrophe which makes the transformation frontier N(Z) ill-shaped for the standard arguments of economists and their most favoured environmental policy instruments. |
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Keywords: | Environmental quality multi-species systems transformation frontier |
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