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on Environmental Economics |
| By: | Poudel, Dikshit; Scognamillo, Antonio |
| Keywords: | Food Security and Poverty, Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343910 |
| By: | Mansouri, Jamil R.; Ellison, Brenna |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Political Economy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343773 |
| By: | Cornish, Brian; Miao, Ruiqing |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:344079 |
| By: | Raff, Zach; Earnhart, Dietrich |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy, Livestock Production/Industries |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343659 |
| By: | Basurto Hernandez, Saul; Marneau-Acevedo, Ari |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy, Land Economics/Use, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:344071 |
| By: | Kang, Saesol; Sears, Molly |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy, Health Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343966 |
| By: | Dang, Ruirui |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics and Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Community/Rural/Urban Development |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343840 |
| By: | Le, Hoanh; Gálvez-Soriano, Oscar |
| Keywords: | Land Economics/Use, Resource/Energy Economics and Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343763 |
| By: | Ponce, Anthony |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics and Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Community/Rural/Urban Development |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343885 |
| By: | Smith, Sarah; Beatty, Timothy |
| Keywords: | Production Economics, Agribusiness, Crop Production/Industries |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343613 |
| By: | Stern, David I. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uyoarc:263941 |
| By: | Perrings, Charles |
| Abstract: | Recent work on the ecology and economics of biodiversity loss has indicated that the main ecpnpmic _costs _of species deletion to.the present generation are likely to be found ituhe lo, ss_pf resilience pf ecosystems providing basic life support services. This paper considers how ecological resilience relates to the sustainability of economic development. It is argued that maintenance of ecosystem stability is necessary to satisfy the basic criterion of sustainable economic development - that the value of the capital stock should be non-declining. Since ecological resilience is a measure of ecosystem stability, loss of resilience implies reduced ecosystem stability. Loss of resilience does not necessarily mean that economic development will be unsustainable, but itincreases_the.probability_that this mill be so. It also, increases.the burden on environmental management. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uyoarc:263925 |
| By: | Perrings, Charles; Turner, Kerry; Folke, Carl |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uyoarc:263943 |
| By: | Bisi, Davide; Landini, Fabio; Rinaldi, Riccardo |
| Abstract: | The interaction between organised employee representation (ER) and firms' engagement in the green transition remains insufficiently understood. Theoretically, two opposing mechanisms may operate. In the bargaining view, representation can slow green investments by increasing adjustment costs and exposing firms to rent-seeking pressures. In contrast, the employee voice perspective holds that ER enables sustainability by facilitating information exchange, eliciting workers' environmental preferences, and supporting joint problem-solving when organisational adaptation is required. We test these predictions using survey and administrative data from nearly 2, 000 firms in Emilia-Romagna. Firms with ER are systematically more likely to pursue green investments, especially in climate mitigation, water use, circularity, and pollution prevention. These results also hold when accounting for the endogeneity of ER via IV. Consistent with the voice mechanism, the association between ER and green investments is stronger in firms employing younger and more educated workers, who are more likely to hold proenvironmental preferences and contribute specialised knowledge relevant for organisational change. Taken together, our findings challenge the view that organised labour inhibits the green transition. Instead, ER emerges as a strategic policy lever that can foster decarbonisation pathways that are technologically feasible, socially negotiated, and democratically anchored at the workplace level. |
| Keywords: | worker voice, employee representation, sustainability, climate change, green investments |
| JEL: | J50 O33 Q50 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:glodps:1699 |
| By: | Heeb, Florian; Kölbel, Julian; Weder, Camilla |
| Abstract: | This paper surveys beliefs about the climate impact of green investing among academic experts and retail investors. Using the views of academic experts as a benchmark, we show that retail investors have overly optimistic climate impact beliefs. While most academic experts do not believe that a typical green fund has a meaningful climate impact, the vast majority of retail investors do. The median retail investor expects a e10, 000 green investment to offset 10% of an average person's carbon footprint. By contrast, the median estimate among academic experts is 2%, with 0% being the most common estimate. Impact beliefs influence investment decisions: When informed of academic experts' views, retail investors reduce their climate impact beliefs and willingness to pay for the green fund. Qualitative statements suggest that retail investors' optimistic beliefs are driven by a neglect of financial-market transmission mechanisms. |
| Keywords: | green finance, subjective beliefs, climate change, willingness to pay, expert survey, behavioral finance |
| JEL: | D14 G11 G41 H41 Q54 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:safewp:333926 |
| By: | Kurronen, Sanna |
| Abstract: | The study aims to identify economic measures that enhance support for climate change mitigation, particularly in oil-rich communities. Using US county-level data, the research shows that the presence of oil reserves is negatively associated with the attribution of human influence to climate change and policies regulating CO2 emissions. Interestingly, a high current dependence on mineral extraction is associated with greater support for climate policies, while a decline in the mining-income share in oil-rich regions does not correlate with increased support for climate action, underpinning our hypothesis of persistence of climate attitudes. This suggests that a region's current economic dependence on mining is not necessarily an obstacle to greater action to mitigate human impacts on climate. While evidence on the impact of extreme weather events on climate attitudes is mixed, we also present evidence that regional economic losses from natural disasters and rising home insurance costs may help convince people of the need for climate policy measures. |
| Keywords: | Climate Attitudes, Oil Wealth, Panel Data, United States |
| JEL: | Q35 Q54 C33 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:bofitp:333961 |
| By: | Mr. Simon Black; Weronika Celniak; Alberto Garcia Huitron; Ian W.H. Parry; Paulina Schulz Antipa; Nate Vernon-Lin |
| Abstract: | This paper provides a bi-annual assessment of efficient fossil fuel prices and subsidies for 170 countries, based on a comprehensive analysis of environmental and other externalities from fuel consumption. Globally, explicit (or fiscal) subsidies were $725 billion (0.6 percent of GDP) in 2024. Implicit subsidies, primarily underpricing of environmental costs, were $6.7 trillion (5.8 percent of GDP), with three quarters from underpriced air pollution and climate change.* Relative to GDP, explicit subsidies have stablized at pre-COVID levels while implicit subidies have increased somewhat and are expected to rise gradually until 2035. Explicit subsidy removal would reduce CO2 emissions by six percent below baseline levels in 2035, avoid 70, 000 premature air pollution deaths annually, raise 0.6 percent of GDP in government revenue, and generate net economic benefits worth 0.5 percent of GDP. Removal of both explicit and implicit subsidies (through corrective taxes) generates substantially larger benefits, such as 1.1 million fewer premature air pollution deaths and a 46 percent reduction in CO2 emissions, but would be politically difficult. Subsidizing fuels is an inefficient way to support low-income households: for every dollar spent on explicit fuel subsidies, the poorest 20 percent of households receive just 8 cents. |
| Keywords: | Fossil fuel subsidies; efficient fuel prices; supply costs; climate change; local air polution mortality; traffic accidents; emissions reductions; revenue gains; welfare gains; distributional impacts |
| Date: | 2025–12–19 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2025/270 |
| By: | Mr. Damien Capelle; Eduardo Espuny Diaz; Mr. Divya Kirti; Mr. Germán Villegas-Bauer; Sharan Banerjee |
| Abstract: | This paper analyzes the effectiveness of green financial policies—green credit policies and free emissions allowances—at improving emission efficiency while supporting output. We develop a heterogeneous-firm model with financial constraints and endogenous adoption of cleaner capital. The model matches key targeted and untargeted moments from granular micro-data, including the facts that more financially constrained firms are less productive, more emission intensive, and respond less to carbon pricing. In counterfactual simulations in our model, credit policies without green bias raise output but also raise emissions, as firms become more capital and energy intensive. In contrast, well-targeted green credit policies—focusing on frontier technologies—cut emissions while boosting output. In the presence of financial frictions, free emissions allowances offset the output costs of carbon pricing, breaking the usual irrelevance of permits allocation. |
| Keywords: | Climate Change; Emissions; Financial Constraints; Financial Frictions; Productivity; Technology Adoption; Capital Vintages. |
| Date: | 2025–12–19 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2025/269 |
| By: | Long, Yanxu |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy, Land Economics/Use, Consumer/Household Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343872 |
| By: | Jo, Haeun |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy, Industrial Organization |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343656 |
| By: | Eugenie Dugoua; Jacob Moscona |
| Abstract: | This chapter examines the economics of climate innovation and its role in the clean technology transition. It outlines the incentives, market failures, and policy levers that shape the development and diffusion of clean technologies; traces global patterns in technology development and deployment; and highlights frontier challenges and open questions related to climate adaptation, critical mineral supply chains, artificial intelligence, and geopolitics. The analysis explores the role of effective climate policy, stressing the relevance of coordinated approaches that match instruments to technology maturity and local context. |
| JEL: | O3 O30 O31 O33 O38 Q5 Q55 Q58 |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:34601 |
| By: | Ireri Hernandez Carballo; Elena Verdolini; Jan Christoph Steckel; Massimo Tavoni; Francesco Vona |
| Abstract: | Addressing climate change requires policies that are ethically defensible, politically acceptable, and implementable. The concept of a ‘just transition’—a decarbonization process that avoids leaving workers and communities behind and mitigates burdens on vulnerable and historically marginalized groups—has gained prominence in academic and policy debates. This paper bridges these debates with insights from environmental economics. We identify and examine four key dimensions of a just transition—distributional, restorative, procedural, and recognition justice—and use them to map existing economic research. We highlight the contributions and limitations of environmental economics in addressing justice concerns and discuss gaps that future research should address to better inform the design of equitable climate policies. |
| Keywords: | just transition, environmental economics, climate policy, energy transition, decarbonization |
| JEL: | Q50 Q56 D63 P18 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_12357 |
| By: | M, Dhasarathan |
| Abstract: | Sustainable agriculture is vital for food security, environmental conservation, and economic resilience. This chapter explores policy frameworks and economic viability in promoting sustainable farming. Historically, agricultural policies prioritized productivity, often at the cost of environmental degradation. However, evolving frameworks now integrate financial incentives, regulatory standards, and market-based mechanisms to support sustainability. Key policy instruments such as subsidies, environmental regulations, and public-private partnerships play a crucial role in facilitating the transition to sustainable agriculture. Case studies from various countries highlight diverse policy approaches. Economic challenges such as high investment costs and market access barriers hinder adoption, though long-term benefits include lower input costs and improved soil health. Financial tools like microfinance, impact investing, and crop insurance help mitigate risks. Innovations in precision farming and digital agriculture enhance sustainability and profitability. A holistic approach is crucial, integrating economic, environmental, and social dimensions. Strengthening financial support, market incentives, and capacity-building initiatives will drive adoption. Future efforts should harmonize policies, foster global cooperation, and leverage technology for resilient agricultural systems. |
| Keywords: | Sustainable agriculture, policy frameworks, economic viability, environmental governance, market-based approaches |
| JEL: | Q56 |
| Date: | 2025–03–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:126823 |
| By: | Jon Frost; Carlos Madeira; Serafin Martinez-Jaramillo |
| Abstract: | In many countries around the world, water scarcity could become a macroeconomically relevant concern. As a key input into production processes (agriculture, power generation and industrial use) and a common good, water resources risk being overexploited. Regressions with panel data for 169 countries between 1990 and 2020 show that, while water use is positively correlated with output, higher water scarcity is associated with lower gross domestic product growth and investment, and higher inflation. In contrast, water use efficiency is associated with higher gross domestic product growth and lower inflation. Climate scenarios show risks of much more severe water shortages in the future, threatening its sustainable use. This could impose higher costs on individual sectors and on the economy, reducing output and pushing up prices. Water availability and use could thus become an area for economists and central banks to monitor in the context of climate change, economic forecasting and monetary policy. |
| Keywords: | water scarcity, efficiency, tragedy of the commons, climate change, natural resources |
| JEL: | L95 Q25 Q50 |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bis:biswps:1314 |
| By: | Shekhawat, Ravindra Singh; Chand, Prem; Kiran Kumara, T. M.; Moharana, Pratap Chand; Rathore, Vijay Singh; Panwar, Nav Ratan; Kumar, Dinesh |
| Abstract: | Arid regions face severe challenges due to wind-induced sand erosion, which accelerates land degradation and disrupts the ecological balance. The mobility of unstabilized sand dunes exacerbates these challenges by encroaching on arable land, damaging infrastructure such as roads and buildings, and threatening the local biodiversity. This dynamic process undermines agricultural productivity and increases its vulnerability to extreme weather events, thereby impacting food security and the livelihoods of communities dependent on these fragile ecosystems. Addressing these challenges requires comprehensive adaptation and mitigation strategies and their associated economic and environmental costs for evidence-based decision-making to prioritize interventions and allocate resources while balancing immediate human needs and long-term sustainability. In this paper, authors provide a comprehensive assessment of the conditions affecting sand dunes, including the dynamics of sand mobilization, stabilization methods employed, and the economic benefits of sand dune stabilization technologies. Looking forward, this paper proposes pathways for scaling up the deployment of sand dune stabilization technologies, emphasizing their integration into desertification control, afforestation, and water conservation programs. I hope this paper will be a valuable resource for policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders in understanding the technological gaps in sand dune stabilization efforts and in designing sustainable land management practices for ecologically fragile arid environments. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:icarpp:383744 |
| By: | Haqiqi, Iman |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy, Land Economics/Use, International Relations/Trade |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:344026 |
| By: | ALOUANI, Ahmed |
| Abstract: | A global climate change is a change in the climate of the entire planet. Climate change can occur naturally (ice age) so Earth's natural climate has always changed and will continue to change. Today, climate change differs from previous changes in its speed and magnitude because the greenhouse effect is a phenomenon that will affect the Earth's temperature. Greenhouse gases, especially water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, trap the sun's heat, preventing the radiation from dissipating into space, however without these natural gases, Earth's average temperature would be -18°C. In this work, we will see what are the consequences of these climate changes on the economies of the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia), in a global context. As well as the efforts to circumvent them. |
| Keywords: | change, Maghreb, consequences, variation, efforts |
| JEL: | Q54 |
| Date: | 2025–12–29 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:127534 |
| By: | Rouhi Rad, Mani; Medina, Nataly |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics and Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343866 |
| By: | Tran, Dat Q.; Borisova, Tatiana |
| Keywords: | Research Methods/Statistical Methods, Resource/Energy Economics and Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343688 |
| By: | Jakub Bandurski (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences); Eliza Hałatek (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences); Adam Łaziński (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences); Michał Künstler (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences) |
| Abstract: | The Energiewende is a deep-rooted notion in the German economy. The main goal is to achieve climate neutrality by transitioning to renewable energy sources. However, the feasibility of this transition is partially hindered by power grid congestion, which undermines system efficiency and leads to both economic and environmental costs. We address this issue by making a prediction of the likelihood of congestion occurrence within the German TenneT DE electricity network in the years 2020-2023. We propose a twofold approach offering a combination of advanced econometric models and state-of-the-art machine learning methods. We offer separate solutions for up congestion when additional energy needs to be pushed to the network as well as down congestion when energy needs to be pulled away from the network. Analyzing the CatBoost with XAI, we identify factors that play a significant role in driving redispatch events within the German electricity network. |
| Keywords: | energiewende, econometrics, machine learning, climate policy, catboost |
| JEL: | Q47 Q48 Q54 C01 C53 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:war:wpaper:2025-30 |
| By: | Julian Keutz (Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne (EWI)); Jan Hendrik Kopp (Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne (EWI)) |
| Abstract: | The European Unions pursuit of climate neutrality necessitates a robust and secure energy system that will likely become reliant on imported green hydrogen. However, this dependency introduces inherent risks related to import disruptions and the weather-driven production variability of green hydrogen. This paper develops a comprehensive modeling approach to address these risks in a decarbonized European energy system. We use stochastic optimization to account for weather-induced variability, while applying dedicated mitigation strategies to analyze the cost and implications of hedging against import disruptions. We model hydrogen imports via long-term contracts, with prices and delivery profiles determined based on a stochastic calculation of the levelized cost of hydrogen supply. This approach informs the stochastic modeling of the European energy system using the HYEBRID model, which accounts for weather variability across domestic and exporting regions. Our analysis reveals that the stochastic extension of HYEBRID reduces system costs by one-third compared to a deterministic solution that assumes average weather conditions. We also identify the need for a substantial expansion of hydrogen storage capacity, considerably exceeding previous estimates, to manage fluctuations in both domestic and imported supply. A pure cost minimization of imports results in significant market concentration, with only three exporters being contracted. By evaluating strategies to mitigate import disruption risk, we find that diversification and import reduction strategies incur higher costs in the investment stage, which can be economically justified if the perceived risk of exporter disruption is sufficiently high. |
| Keywords: | Energy System Modeling; Hydrogen Infrastructure; Stochastic Optimization; Weather Variability; Hydrogen Import Risks |
| JEL: | C61 F52 Q27 Q41 Q42 Q48 |
| Date: | 2025–12–17 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ris:ewikln:021921 |
| By: | Lee, Young Gwan; Elbakidze, Levan |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343835 |
| By: | Bocci, Corinne F.; Mishra, Khushbu |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy, Consumer/Household Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343780 |
| By: | Berg, Florian; Ceccarelli, Marco; Heeb, Florian; Ivashchenko, Alexey; Rigobón, Roberto; Zwinkels, Remco C. J. |
| Abstract: | We study pricing in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) using a novel proprietary dataset of sales of emission reduction certificates (credits) by a leading VCM dealer. We document extraordinary price dispersion, with carbon credits trading between a few cents and $100 per ton of CO2. Prices are systematically related to the credit project, buyer, and trade characteristics, rather than to a common value of carbon emissions. Credits from the least reliable emission reduction technologies, but with positive noncarbon externalities, are twice as expensive as trusted industrial solutions. Buyers in low-emission industries, wealthier countries, and large firms pay a premium for carbon credits, while heavy polluters and firms with explicit sustainability commitments do not. VCM pricing also features volume and client relationship discounts typical for over-the-counter markets. Finally, we document a causal link between the introduction of the VCM futures market and price premia for credits eligible for expiring futures settlement. |
| JEL: | Q54 G12 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:safewp:333925 |
| By: | Li, Yanggu; Zhang, Wei |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Production Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343598 |
| By: | Du, Xiaodong; Dong, Fengxia |
| Keywords: | Crop Production/Industries, Production Economics, Research Methods/Statistical Methods |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343786 |
| By: | Nicol\'as Blampied; Alessia Cafferata; Marwil J. Davila-Fernandez |
| Abstract: | Can constantly comparing ourselves to others lead to overconsumption, ultimately increasing the ecological footprint? How do social comparisons shape green preferences over time? To answer these questions, we develop an environmental Overlapping Generations (OLG) model that explicitly accounts for Veblen effects and allows green preferences to be updated asynchronously, influenced by past environmental conditions and relative status considerations. We show that, along the optimal path, positional spending leads to overconsumption, which is detrimental to the environment. Taxing consumption is counterproductive as it does not directly address the social comparisons issue, leaving the problem unchanged. When the Veblenian mechanism is weak, the introduction of a materialistic ``secular trend'' -- that lowers the importance placed on the public good -- gives rise to two stable equilibria separated by a saddle: one in which agents care about environmental quality as much as consuming, and the other in which they derive utility solely from the latter. Studying the basins of attraction reveals that green investments are highly fragile. Our numerical experiments further indicated that, when Veblen effects are strong, the model depicts endogenous, persistent, aperiodic oscillations. In this case, green preferences fluctuate close to zero, and environmental quality is very low. Taken together, these findings suggest environmental vulnerability grows in parallel with status-driven consumption. |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2512.16806 |
| By: | Jongwattanakul, Pit; Ferreira, Susana |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy, Health Economics and Policy, Land Economics/Use |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343925 |
| By: | Ashley C. Craig; Thomas Lloyd; Dylan Moore; Ashley Craig |
| Abstract: | How should taxes on externality-generating activities be adjusted if they are regressive? In our model, the government raises revenue using distortionary income and commodity taxes. If more or less productive people have identical tastes for externality-generating consumption, the government optimally imposes a Pigouvian tax equal to the marginal damage from the externality. This is true regardless of whether the tax is regressive. But, if regressivity reflects different preferences of people with different incomes rather than solely income effects, the optimal tax differs from the Pigouvian benchmark. We derive sufficient statistics for optimal policy, and use them to study carbon taxation in the United States. Our empirical results suggest an optimal carbon tax that is remarkably close to the Pigouvian level, but with higher carbon taxes for very high-income households if this is feasible. When we allow for heterogeneity in preferences at each income level as well as across the income distribution, our optimal tax schedules are further attenuated toward the Pigouvian benchmark. |
| Keywords: | optimal taxation, externalities, corrective taxation, income taxation, climate change, carbon tax, commodity taxation, redistribution |
| JEL: | H21 H23 Q52 Q54 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_12317 |
| By: | Mathilde Maurel (Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, CNRS, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne); Lili Onillon (Laboratoire d'Excellence "Dynamiques Territoriales et Spatiales" - LabEx DynamiTe); Thomas Vendryes (ENS Paris-Saclay) |
| Abstract: | This paper preliminary results from the MIACE project, based on a survey of 62 individuals around an environmental art exhibition held in June 2025 in Excideuil, France. Comparing visitors and non-visitors, we explore whether artistic exposure can influence environmental consciousness and contribute to understanding how art may shape perceptions and attitudes |
| Keywords: | Environmental consciousness; Environmental art; Impact evaluation; Behavioral change; A esthetic experience |
| JEL: | Q59 Q51 D91 Z11 C93 |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mse:cesdoc:25024 |
| By: | Etienne de L'Estoile; Leïla El Kaissoumi; Léopold Gosset; Lisa Kerdelhué |
| Abstract: | In response to the risks to financial stability posed by climate change, the Banque de France is deploying a diverse toolkit that includes macroeconomic modelling and detailed risk mapping. These tools, developed on the basis of concepts of climate hazard, exposure and vulnerability, provide complementary insights. <p> Face aux risques que les dérèglements climatiques font peser sur la stabilité financière, la Banque de France mobilise une boîte à outils variée, incluant la modélisation macroéconomique et la cartographie fine des risques. Ces instruments, fondés sur les notions d’aléa climatique, d’exposition et de vulnérabilité, apportent des éclairages complémentaires. |
| Date: | 2025–11–18 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bfr:econot:418 |
| By: | Beckford, G.L |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Relations/Trade |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc68:263922 |
| By: | Yang, Yongwen; Lee, Juhee |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy, Public Economics, Political Economy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:344021 |
| By: | Daniel H. Karney; Don Fullerton; Kathy Baylis |
| Abstract: | Computational general equilibrium (CGE) models can evaluate detailed tax reforms, trade restrictions, or environmental policy. These models can capture many complexities, but these complexities can make results difficult to interpret. Analytical general equilibrium (AGE) models provide better intuition and interpretation but cannot capture relevant complexities. We propose a method that employs AGE models to understand CGE models – a “model of the model”. We apply this idea to climate policy and carbon leakage – the increase in emissions elsewhere. Our AGE models identify seven key economic determinants of leakage within any one outcome. We then unpack results from three existing CGE models. |
| Keywords: | analyticala general equilibrium, AGE, and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models |
| JEL: | C63 H23 Q58 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_12332 |
| By: | Kim, Euijun; Fannin, James Matthew |
| Keywords: | Community/Rural/Urban Development, Environmental Economics and Policy, Agribusiness |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343807 |
| By: | Andrea Ciaccio; Francesco Moscone; Elisa Tosetti |
| Abstract: | In this paper we investigate the causal impact of the European Union Emissions Trading System, a cap-and-trade scheme limiting greenhouse gas emissions of firms, on their environmental performance. Although previous studies have focused primarily on the effect of the emission cap imposed by the policy, we argue that the trading mechanism creates complex interdependencies among firms that can change the policy's intended effects. We develop a novel Difference-in-Differences approach that disentangles the direct causal effects of the scheme on regulated firms from the indirect spillover effects arising from trading among firms. By incorporating potential interference between treated units, our methodology allows a more comprehensive assessment of the policy's overall effectiveness. Monte Carlo simulations show that our proposed estimators perform well in finite samples, confirming the reliability of our approach. To assess the direct and indirect effects of the scheme, we construct a novel database on emissions of European industrial sites by matching information on treated plants from the European Commission's Community Independent Transaction Log with emission data from the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register for the years from 2001 to 2017. We find that the scheme reduced emissions only for non-trading plants, but such reduction is entirely offset when accounting for spillovers from trading plants, thus suggesting that the trading mechanism neutralizes the environmental benefits of the policy. Our findings have important implications for the design of future environmental policies and the ongoing evaluation of cap and trade policies. |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2512.15377 |
| By: | Ahmadiani, Mona; Woodward, Richard T. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343574 |
| By: | Bakhtavoryan, Rafael; Hovhannisyan, Vardges |
| Keywords: | Demand and Price Analysis, Consumer/Household Economics, Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343883 |
| By: | Faucheux, Sylvie; Froger, Geraldine; O'Connor, Martin |
| Abstract: | The emergence of the concept of sustainable development has encouraged economists and decisionmakers to look at the the extent to which established systems for national accounting (SNA) can be modified to take account of concerns for ecological sustainability. In this paper, we examine carefully definitions of and methods for arriving at, "corrected aggregates" -- variously called "Green GNP", "environmentally corrected national income" (EN!), and"sustainable national income" (SNI) -- and their relationships to the "weak" and "strong" criterion of sustainability. In particular we consider the relation between an estimate of a SNI, and various measures that have been proposed for estimating an "environmentally corrected national income" (EN!). Two main types of EN! "correction" methodologies are distinguished and discussed: (i) those based on capital theory and the idea of accounting for depreciation of "natural capital" stocks; and (ii) those based on identification in biophysical, ecological and social ternzs of norms for sustainability, with subsequent estimates of the costs of achieving these norms. Our main conclusions are: (1) with careful applications, these two approaches can be regarded as complementary for the estimation of an EN!; (2) in no instances do these measures of an ENI correspond to estimations of SNI for a country. Rather, the existing ENIs can be regarded as embodying information about the "costs of achieving sustainability" given the existing capital stocks and about the "distance separating a country from sustainability". Conceptual and enzpirical estimation work should proceed by exploring the relationship between EN! and SNI as distinct and complementary policy reference points. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uyoarc:263935 |
| By: | Alberto Fiorese (Venice School of Management, Caoscari University of Venice) |
| Abstract: | The honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most economically valuable pollinator worldwide. In this research note, we review current knowledge on honey bee biology, ecology, and the main drivers of colony decline. Furthermore, given the key role of management strategies in maintaining colony health, we analysed differences in performance between nomadic vs stationary hives using a six-year dataset (2019-2024) that included internal hive temperature, relative humidity and weight. As a generalist and polylectic species, the honey bee contributes to the pollination of a wide variety of wild flowering plants, and agricultural crops. In addition to their role in pollination, honeybee colonies produce valuable natural products such as honey, propolis, and wax. Beekeeping also represents a cornerstone of rural economies, supporting food production and preserving beekeeping traditions passed down through generations. The global decline of honey bee results from the synergistic interplay of several factors, including land use change and associated habitat loss, climate change, pesticide exposure, the spread of invasive alien species and pathogens, and the intensification of beekeeping. The success and resilience of beekeeping are strongly influenced by management practices, that affect both productivity and colony health. Among these, migratory or nomadic beekeeping, the seasonal relocation of colonies to follow successive flowering periods, represents one of the oldest and most adaptive strategies in apicultural history. According to our dataset, an average of 45% of colonies recorded more than one geographic coordinate per year and were therefore classified as nomadic. With the sole exception of maximum hive weight in 2024, likely due to the smaller sample size that year, significant differences were consistently observed between nomadic and stationary hives. Specifically, the number of temperature and relative humidity anomalies was consistently lower in nomadic hives, whereas both maximum and minimum hive weights were higher compared with stationary colonies. Our findings indicate that nomadic hives experience reduced environmental stress, supporting the idea that nomadism is a traditional yet effective management strategy for addressing the challenges of changing landscapes and climate in modern beekeeping. Nonetheless, the frequent movement of colonies may increase exposure to stress factors and facilitate the spread of diseases and parasites among apiaries; therefore, its implementation should be guided by careful monitoring and sound planning. |
| Date: | 2025–11 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:vnm:wpdman:233 |
| By: | McIntosh, Dr. C.E. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc73:264357 |
| By: | Ali, Dr. Ridwan |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc73:264347 |
| By: | Kumar Abhishek (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)); Amrita Goldar; Sunishtha Yadav; Sajal Jain; Diya Dasgupta |
| Abstract: | The escalating threat of global climate change has positioned energy efficiency (EE) at the forefront of energy and environmental policy. While EE technologies offer significant potential to reduce both financial costs and environmental impacts, their adoption remains limited, revealing a persistent paradox. Drawing evidence from key focus states, this study examines the barriers contributing to the EE adoption gap, highlighting compliance-driven behaviour, high upfront costs, undervaluation of future savings, and gaps in workforce skills. Integrating repair and maintenance practices with operational processes emerges as a critical pathway to expand adoption. Beyond operational benefits, EE investments also generate significant macroeconomic spillovers by creating jobs and upskilling workers, reinforcing their strategic value. These findings highlight the EE gap and underscore the need for coordinated, integrated approaches that strengthen in-house capacity, support workforce development, and simultaneously drive adoption, operational efficiency, and broader socio-economic gains. |
| Keywords: | Energy Efficiency Gap, Market Barriers, Behavioural Barriers, Employment, icrier |
| Date: | 2025–11 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bdc:ppaper:53 |
| By: | Chen, Luoye; Khanna, Madhu |
| Keywords: | Land Economics/Use, Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343631 |
| By: | Lee, Goeun; Beatty, Timothy |
| Keywords: | Health Economics and Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Agricultural and Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343622 |
| By: | Agata Gałkiewicz (University of Potsdam, IAB, CEPA) |
| Abstract: | Random disturbances such as air pollution may affect cognitive performance, which, particularly in high-stakes settings, may have severe consequences for an individual’s productivity and well-being. This paper examines the short-term effects of air pollution on school leaving exam results in Poland. I exploit random variation in air pollution between the days on which exams are held across three consecutive school years. I aim to capture this random variation by including school and time fixed effects. The school-level panel data is drawn from a governmental program where air pollution is continuously measured in the schoolyard. This localized hourly air pollution measure is a unique feature of my study, which increases the precision of the estimated effects. In addition, using distant and aggregated air pollution measures allows me for the comparison of the estimates in space and time. The findings suggest that a one standard deviation increase in the concentration of particulate matter PM2.5 and PM10 decreases students’ exam scores by around 0.07–0.08 standard deviations. The magnitude and significance of these results depend on the location and timing of the air pollution readings, indicating the importance of the localized air pollution measure and the distinction between contemporaneous and lingering effects. Further, air pollution effects gradually increase in line with the quantiles of the exam score distribution, suggesting that high-ability students are more affected by the random disturbances caused by air pollution. |
| Keywords: | air pollution, particulate matter, education, cognitive performance, test scores, Poland |
| JEL: | I20 I21 I24 Q53 |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pot:cepadp:96 |
| By: | Khanna, Shefali |
| Abstract: | Market-based instruments like carbon pricing are increasingly being adopted in developing countries to mitigate carbon emissions. However, institutional features such as long-term electricity contracts and regulated tariffs may mute their effectiveness. I explore this question in the context of the electric power sector in India, where electricity is transacted primarily via long-term bilateral contracts and state-owned distribution utilities self-schedule contracted power plants to meet their demand. The absence of a centralized and dynamic market-based economic dispatch mechanism generates short-run misallocation in electricity dispatch and distorts long-run investment decisions, such as the incentive to invest in flexible generation capacity and energy storage to complement renewable-based capacity. Using panel data on coal price schedules and monthly plant-level operations from 2012 to 2020, I construct a predicted delivered coal price index to estimate the elasticity of plant utilization with respect to fuel prices. I find that the demand for electricity from coal-fired power plants with a higher share of capacity allocated under long-term bilateral contract(s) is less sensitive to changes in coal prices, implying that the existing market design could erode some of the environmental benefits of carbon pricing. |
| Keywords: | regulated industries; utilities; energy demand; energy markets |
| JEL: | R14 J01 |
| Date: | 2025–12–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:129494 |
| By: | Stern, David I. |
| Abstract: | I attempt to measure whether the mining sector contributes to the achievement of sustainable development or detracts from that goal in a number of developing countries. Most economic interpretations of sustainability regard sustainable development as development that provides for a non-decreasing level of welfare in the long-run. Treating income per capita as an imperfect proxy of welfare we can measure whether increases in mining sector income lead to sustainable increases in income despite the exhaustible nature of mineral deposits. This is a more encompassing criterion than the conventional Solow-Hartwick criterion which sets necessary conditions for the achievement of a similar definition of sustainability. A seven variable vector autoregression model (VAR) is estimated for each of nineteen non-OPEC developing countries with large mining sectors. The variables are mining GDP, non-mining GDP, net foreign factor payments, imports, manufactured capital, labor, and an index of human capital. Other aspects of the natural environment are treated as unobserved variables that may systematically affect parameter estimates or affect the random error terms. Using the impulse response functions, I determine the long-run multiplier of mining income on GNP. Information is also provided on the multipliers of the mining sector on manufactured and human capital accumulation which could be used in a test of the Solow-Hartwick weak sustainability criterion or used in a more comprehensive assessment of the effects of mining on development. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uyoarc:263918 |
| By: | Koirala, Samjhana; Rollins, Kimberly S. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343931 |
| By: | Julia Ko\'nczal; Micha{\l} Balcerek; Krzysztof Burnecki |
| Abstract: | In recent years, the growing frequency and severity of natural disasters have increased the need for effective tools to manage catastrophe risk. Catastrophe (CAT) bonds allow the transfer of part of this risk to investors, offering an alternative to traditional reinsurance. This paper examines the role of climate variability in CAT bond pricing and evaluates the predictive performance of various machine learning models in forecasting CAT bond coupons. We combine features typically used in the literature with a new set of climate indicators, including Oceanic Ni{\~n}o Index, Arctic Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Pacific-North American pattern, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Southern Oscillation Index, and sea surface temperatures. We compare the performance of linear regression with several machine learning algorithms, such as random forest, gradient boosting, extremely randomized trees, and extreme gradient boosting. Our results show that including climate-related variables improves predictive accuracy across all models, with extremely randomized trees achieving the lowest root mean squared error (RMSE). These findings suggest that large-scale climate variability has a measurable influence on CAT bond pricing and that machine learning methods can effectively capture these complex relationships. |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2512.22660 |
| By: | Ali, Ridwan |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc73:264346 |
| By: | Lu, Pei Jyun; Skidmore, Mark |
| Keywords: | Risk and Uncertainty, Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343940 |
| By: | Common, M. |
| Abstract: | It is not possible to measure sustainable national income, and attempts to do so will consume non-trivial quantities of human and financial resources. There is a manifest desire for single number indicators of national economic performance adjusted for environmental impact. An approach is proposed which would exploit existing data sources, and which is, therefore, inexpensive. Results are reported which revise existing economic performance rankings. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uyoarc:263916 |
| By: | DeCastro, Steve |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Relations/Trade |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc68:263932 |
| By: | Stern, David I.; Common, Michael S.; Barbier, Edward B. |
| Abstract: | In this paper we critically examine the concept of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). This concept, most prominently promoted in the World Development Report 1992, proposes that there is an inverted U-shape relation between environmental degradation and income per capita. The concept is dependent on a model of the economy in which there is no feedback from the quality of the environment to economic growth and in which trade has a neutral effect on environmental degradation. There are also some econometric problems with previous estimates of the EKC. The inference from the EKC estimates that further development will reduce environmental degradation is dependent on the assumption that World income is normally distributed when in fact median income is far below mean income. To illustrate the latter point we carry out a simulation under the assumption that one could actually analyze the economy-environment relationship in the way suggested by the EKC. We combine published estimates of the EKC with World Bank forecasts for long-run economic growth. The analysis shows that within the horizon of the Bank's forecast (2025) global emissions of SO2 will continue to increase. Forest loss stabilizes before the end of the period but tropical deforestation continues to proceed at a constant rate throughout the period. This is despite a near doubling in mean world income per capita. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uyoarc:263933 |
| By: | Rennert, Kevin (Resources for the Future); Ho, Mun (Resources for the Future); Nehrkorn, Katarina (Resources for the Future); Elkerbout, Milan (Resources for the Future) |
| Abstract: | The Clean Competition Act (CCA) of 2025, updated and introduced to the 119th Congress by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), would establish a domestic performance standard and a symmetric carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) for certain energy-intensive, trade-exposed goods. US manufacturers of goods covered by the legislation would pay a fee for carbon emissions above a benchmark specified for those goods. Imported, covered goods would face an analogous tariff based on how much more carbon-intensive that good was compared to the benchmark. The benchmark for each good would initially be set at the average level of emissions for its manufacture in the United States, becoming more stringent over time. The carbon emissions fee and tariff rates would also increase over time, providing an ongoing set of symmetric incentives to reduce the emissions intensity of both US manufacturing and imported goods.Here, we use the Global Economic Model (GEM) to assess the effects of a CBAM stylized after the CCA.We find that the CCA would have the following effects:Shift US imports toward countries with less carbon-intensive manufacturing: Imports for covered products are reduced from countries facing the carbon tariffs (e.g., China, Mexico, and India) and increased from countries exempt from the tariffs (e.g., the European Union, United Kingdom, and Japan) due to their lower carbon intensity of manufacturing for those products.Reduce emissions globally, led by the United States: Emissions are projected to decrease globally by 81 million metric tonnes (MMt) in the first year of the policy, with US emissions reductions of 63 MMt leading all other countries. The increasing fee and tightening standards lead to greater reductions over time, with 140 MMT of global and 119 MMt of US emission reductions in the tenth year after enactment. US emissions reductions result from decreased energy and emissions intensity of manufacturing driven by the CCA’s domestic performance standard, as well as reductions in overall demand for energy intensive goods.Raise revenue: Annual revenues from the policy are projected to be $7.2 billion (in 2024 US$) for the covered refining and manufacturing sectors in the first year and total $101 billion over the first ten years of the policy. Roughly 75 percent of the revenues derive from the domestic performance standard.Reduce US outputs in covered sectors and downstream industries: The tariffs have a protective effect for US manufacturers, whilst the performance standard increases costs for higher-intensity producers. The balance of effects is slightly negative for US production of covered products: cement (–0.02 percent), aluminum (–1.9 percent), iron and steel (–0.6 percent), and pulp and paper (–0.3 percent). Output in industries such as construction and transportation equipment manufacturing falls slightly (0.04–0.5 percent) in response to higher prices for covered inputs. |
| Date: | 2025–12–17 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rff:report:rp-25-19 |
| By: | Thomas, C. Y. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Relations/Trade |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc68:263931 |
| By: | Henrekson, Magnus (Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)) |
| Abstract: | This study critically examines HYBRIT (Hydrogen Breakthrough Ironmaking Technology), a Swedish flagship project—led by the government-owned iron ore company LKAB—to produce fossil-free sponge iron using hydrogen from fossil-free electricity. Positioned as a cornerstone of the EU Green Deal and Sweden’s green industrial transition, HYBRIT promised CO₂ reductions significantly exceeding Sweden’s current total emissions, but entailed unprecedented technological, economic, and infrastructural challenges. The analysis situates HYBRIT within the broader trend of “moonshot” industrial policies, emphasizing their susceptibility to political enthusiasm, rent-seeking, and disregard for opportunity costs. Technologically, the project required large-scale hydrogen production, storage, and industrial adaptation, unproven at a commercial scale. Economically, profitability hinged on exceptionally low electricity prices and high CO₂ emission costs—conditions unlikely to persist—while facing intensifying global competition in the green steel sector. Electricity supply constraints, particularly in northern Sweden, compounded feasibility concerns. Political, regional, and corporate interests aligned to advance HYBRIT despite these risks, aided by limited external scrutiny of state-owned firms. Growing criticism and competing priorities eventually led LKAB to defer its sponge iron ambitions indefinitely, reframing its strategy around high-grade ore and the extraction of rare earth metals and phosphorus. The case illustrates the pitfalls of mission-oriented policies when technological and market realities are subordinated to political symbolism, underscoring the need for rigorous, independent evaluation of large-scale green industrial projects. |
| Keywords: | Green deals; Green steel; Hydrogen; Mission-oriented policies; Moonshots; Public choice; Rent-seeking |
| JEL: | L20 L52 L70 O38 Q28 Q48 |
| Date: | 2025–12–11 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:iuiwop:1546 |
| By: | Haley, Nicholas M.; Savchenko, Olesya |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy, Resource/Energy Economics and Policy, Land Economics/Use |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343778 |
| By: | McIntosh, Dr. C.E. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc73:264359 |
| By: | Maxime Barthe; Thomas Choquet; Tristan Jourde |
| Abstract: | Where firms fail to disclose their carbon emissions, the data can be estimated using machine learning models, which yield better predictive performances than standard methods. When combined with human expertise, these models can fill in gaps in the data and refine the assessment of transition risk. <p> Lorsqu’aucune donnée d’émissions carbone n’est publiée par les entreprises, cette information peut être estimée à l’aide de modèles d’apprentissage automatique, dont les performances prédictives surpassent celles des méthodes classiques. Complétés par une expertise humaine, ces modèles permettent de combler les lacunes en matière de données et d’affiner l’évaluation des risques de transition. |
| Date: | 2025–12–04 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bfr:econot:421 |
| By: | Beckford, G. L. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Relations/Trade |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc68:263936 |
| By: | Skeete, Charles A. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc73:264348 |
| By: | Best, Lloyd |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Relations/Trade |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc68:263929 |
| By: | Mathilde Maurel (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, FERDI - Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International); Lili Onillon (LabEx DynamiTe - Laboratoire d'Excellence "Dynamiques Territoriales et Spatiales" - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UP8 - Université Paris 8 - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - EPHE - École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - Inalco - Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales - Cnam - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [Cnam] - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - MC - Ministère de la Culture - UPCité - Université Paris Cité - Université Sorbonne Paris Nord); Thomas Vendryes (Université Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris Saclay - Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, CEPS - Centre d'Economie de l'ENS Paris-Saclay - Université Paris-Saclay - ENS Paris Saclay - Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay) |
| Abstract: | This paper presents preliminary results from the MIACE project, based on a survey of 62 individuals around an environmental art exhibition held in June 2025 in Excideuil, France. Comparing visitors and non-visitors, we explore whether artistic exposure can influence environmental consciousness and contribute to understanding how art may shape perceptions and attitudes. |
| Keywords: | Aesthetic experience, Behavioral change, Impact evaluation, Environmental art, Environmental consciousness |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:cesptp:halshs-05426706 |
| By: | Nyirenda, Zephania; Mkumbwa, Solomon; Chadza, William; Muyanga, Milu |
| Abstract: | • With many households losing nearly all they owned, swift humanitarian support is needed for flood victims, including food, shelter, and clothing. • Swift support to the flood victims with agricultural production inputs, especially seeds, to take advantage of the dimba season and alluvial deposits from the floods. • Agencies providing direct support to flood victims should coordinate with the Department of Disaster Management (DoDMA) to ensure equitable distribution of relief items to all victims. • Rehabilitate and strengthen infrastructure, including feeder roads, main roads, bridges, irrigation schemes, schools, and others destroyed or shaken by the floods. • Implement a permanent resettlement scheme for households in Chikwawa and Nsanje districts, especially in flood-prone areas as the occurrence, frequency, and severity of floods in Chikwawa and Nsanje is likely to continue with climate change. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Food Security and Poverty, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:maappb:329247 |
| By: | Siwar Khelifa; Jie He |
| Abstract: | This paper provides the first evidence from a developing-country setting on the long-term educational impacts of early-life exposure to a major environmental regulation. We study China's 1998 Two Control Zones policy and implement a difference-in-differences design comparing adjacent birth cohorts in targeted and non-targeted counties. We find no detectable effects of early-life exposure to the policy on long-term educational outcomes. Across a wide range of measures, including high school attendance, academic versus vocational track placement, and high-quality school attendance around age 15, as well as college entrance exam participation, exam scores, and post-secondary enrollment around age 18, the estimates are statistically indistinguishable from zero. These null results are robust across alternative specifications and hold in subgroups defined by gender and maternal education. |
| Keywords: | Education, environmental regulation, TCZ policy, early-life conditions, China |
| JEL: | I18 I24 J24 Q51 Q56 |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:irn:wpaper:25-08 |
| By: | Tehranchian, Amirmansour; Roudari, Soheil; Khabbaz, Seyedeh Mahsa |
| Abstract: | New technologies play an increasingly vital role in managing energy resources and enhancing environmental sustainability. Given the significant challenges posed by the use of non-renewable energy sources, it is essential to examine how technology can mitigate their consumption and promote ecological resilience. This study investigates the asymmetric effects of non-renewable energy consumption on ecological resilience through technological influence in Iran over the period 1990–2022, using the Threshold Structural Vector Autoregression (TSVAR) model. The results reveal a threshold of 0.171% for the growth rate of non-renewable energy consumption, beyond which the impact on ecological resilience differs substantially. The study finds that the ecological response varies depending on whether energy consumption is above or below this threshold. These findings underscore the importance of integrating advanced technologies and digital solutions into the energy sector. Policy implications include prioritizing technological innovation and smart energy systems to improve efficiency, reduce reliance on fossil fuels, and ultimately strengthen ecological resilience across multiple dimensions. |
| Keywords: | Energy consumption , Ecological resilience , Information and communications technology , TSVAR model |
| JEL: | Q35 Q50 |
| Date: | 2025–05–18 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:126834 |
| By: | Brune, Niclas; Vetter, Oliver A.; Walter, Philipp; Buxmann, Peter |
| Abstract: | This paper explores how the integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)reshapes organizational sensemaking in sustainability reporting. While reporting iscritical to environmental progress, small enterprises often lack the resources to engagemeaningfully in the necessary sensemaking processes. GenAI technologies offer newopportunities to support these processes, yet their impact remains underexplored. Toinvestigate how GenAI integration affects sensemaking, we conducted an exploratorycase study in six companies using a prototype Green Information System (IS) forsustainability reporting. We found that GenAI can support sensemaking by providingcontext-specific information and adaptive guidance. It can trigger sensemaking bytaking an active role, enabling joint human-AI sensemaking. We contribute to Green ISresearch by illustrating how GenAI fosters sustainability-oriented reflection and action.We extend the sensemaking support systems research by demonstrating that GenAI canfunction not just as an analytical tool but as an active trigger of sensemaking processes. |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dar:wpaper:158247 |
| By: | Seepersad, Joseph; Ragbir, Sarojini |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc00:265538 |
| By: | Hein, Philippe L. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Relations/Trade |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc68:263930 |
| By: | Zhou, Mengfei; Merel, Pierre |
| Keywords: | Risk and Uncertainty, Environmental Economics and Policy, Consumer/Household Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343790 |
| By: | Roberts, G. W. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Relations/Trade |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc68:263928 |
| By: | Cumper, G. E. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Relations/Trade |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc68:263924 |
| By: | Gondwe, Anderson; Nankwenya, Bonface; Goeb, Joseph |
| Abstract: | A large share of Malawian households faces multiple shocks which affect their welfare. There is a need to develop programs that increase household resilience against the recurring weather-related disasters and adversities such as promotion of climate smart technologies and practices. As a coping mechanism, most households resort to using own savings, while a significant number of households do nothing. Social safety nets and farm input subsidies play a significant role in cushioning households against shocks, but the current programmes are hampered by poor targeting hence not fully benefiting the intended poor households. The government and development partners should develop better ways of targeting of the existing social safety nets and input subsidy programmes so as to benefit the deserving and intended poor households. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Consumer/Household Economics, Environmental Economics and Policy, Food Security and Poverty |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:maappb:338598 |
| By: | Bernd Bonfert (Aarhus University [Aarhus]); Helle Ørsted Nielsen (Aarhus University [Aarhus]); Anders Branth Pedersen (Aarhus University [Aarhus]) |
| Abstract: | Strategies for transforming capitalist economies often struggle with scaling up more socially just and ecologically sustainable alternatives. To avoid being stuck in a "local trap", many prefigurative initiatives form larger networks and coalitions. Agroecological practices, such as community-supported agriculture (CSA), have been especially expansive in recent years. However, since most scholarship on the growing CSA networks focuses primarily on their development and positive achievements, we learn little about their encountered challenges and their strategies for overcoming them. This article therefore investigates the causes and extent of "network failure", including barriers to collaboration and potential responses, among CSA networks in the UK and Germany. It draws on qualitative case studies, based on interviews, observation and document analysis. The article finds that CSA networks operate well at national and local level, but have experienced relative network failure at regional level, and encounter regular barriers to collaboration due to capacity limitations, differences and competition between members, all of which they are trying to address. |
| Keywords: | Green cities, Experimental governance, Local governance, Energy communities, Energy transition, Renewable energy |
| Date: | 2024–07–24 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05394859 |
| By: | Sukdeo, Fred |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc73:264355 |
| By: | Ferraro, Greg; Rejesus, Roderick M. |
| Keywords: | Agribusiness, Environmental Economics and Policy, Agricultural and Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343774 |
| By: | Persaud, Bishnodat; Persaud, Lakshmi |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Relations/Trade |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc68:263934 |
| By: | Yim, Hyungsun; Dall'Erba, Sandy |
| Keywords: | Research Methods/Statistical Methods |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:344040 |
| By: | Rubbi, Fabio |
| Abstract: | Assessing ecosystem service (ES) demand remains conceptually fragmented and methodologically inconsistent in social-ecological systems (SES) research due to the lack of a framework linking human preferences to benefits derived from ES fruition. This study develops a systematic typology of ES demand assessment based on an integrative review of empirical studies. We conceptualize demand as emerging from two competing modalities: the consumption of provisioning and cultural services, which may drive ecosystem depletion, and the need for risk reduction through regulating services, which supports ecosystem preservation. Building on this distinction, we identify five valuation approaches, two that directly translate ES value into realized benefits and three that infer demand indirectly through monetary estimation, expert knowledge, or threshold-based criteria. The framework clarifies how socio-economic variables represent human preferences and needs, revealing the diversity and underlying logic of current demand assessment practices. Limitations include the lack of analysis of interactions between demand modalities, the treatment of services in isolation rather than as interdependent bundles, and the neglect of temporal and spatial dimensions. By systematizing fragmented methodologies, the framework advances understanding of ES demand and provides a structured basis for selecting appropriate demand assessment approaches across diverse SES contexts. |
| Keywords: | Climate Change, Sustainability |
| Date: | 2025–12–15 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:feemwp:386092 |
| By: | McIntosh, Dr. C.E. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc73:264358 |
| By: | Mayers, John M. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc73:264350 |
| By: | Braithwaite, Lloyd |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Relations/Trade |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc68:263927 |
| By: | Chalmers, W.S.; Murray, D.B. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc73:264351 |
| By: | Francis, Gloria E. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc73:264352 |
| By: | Zhu, Kunxin; Zhu, Yunan |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy, Political Economy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343994 |
| By: | Luke, Jaime; Tonsor, Glynn T. |
| Keywords: | Livestock Production/Industries, Demand and Price Analysis, Agricultural and Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343867 |
| By: | Persaud, B. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc73:264349 |
| By: | Swanson, Andrew C. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Resource/Energy Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:344074 |
| By: | Heboyan, Vahe; Ames, Glenn C. W.; Epperson, James E. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc00:265499 |
| By: | McDonald, Vincent R. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc73:264353 |
| By: | Natasya Ghinna (School of Economics and Management, Kochi University of Technology); Koji Kotani (Research Institute for Future Design, Kochi University of Technology) |
| Abstract: | For Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), considerations to future generations and intergenerational sustainability are required and must be integrated into interventions and policies for human behaviors and decision making. Yet, such interventions and policies remain underdeveloped despite their potential contribution. We conduct bibliometric and content analyses of 119 peer-reviewed publications over 20 years with a focus on future generations and intergenerational sustainability. To this end, a conceptual framework is developed, combining cognitive, noncognitive and socioeconomic factors to be parts of interventions and policies for behaviors and decisions towards SDGs. With the framework, this review maps the evolution of the literature and spots a set of open questions as well as future directions of research. We find that the literature has expanded steadily and reveal two main insights. First, the related studies mainly examine interventions and policies on short-run behaviors and decisions, such as generative, cooperative and sustainable behaviors, overlooking inquisitive, creative and productive ones. Second, there are few studies that analyze long-run changes in behaviors and decisions, implying the necessity of further studies on how interventions and policies shall be able to influence people’s deliberative cognitive processes for the long-lasting impact. Overall, we identify clear and practical pathways towards accelerating progress for SDGs through linking actionable interventions and policies to behavioral changes and decision making, such as family-level education and community initiatives. |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:kch:wpaper:sdes-2025-13 |
| By: | McKetty, Matthew NR; Foltz, Jeremy D. |
| Keywords: | Food Security and Poverty, International Development, Resource/Energy Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343715 |
| By: | Marshall, Woodville K. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Relations/Trade |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc68:263926 |
| By: | Cheng, Yang; Hu, Lianyi |
| Keywords: | Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies, Labor and Human Capital, Resource/Energy Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343645 |
| By: | Ramautarsing, Winston; Zilmijn, Arthur |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc00:265501 |
| By: | Beckford, George |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Relations/Trade |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc68:263923 |
| By: | Poeplau, Christopher; Harbo, Laura Sofie; Schneider, Florian; Schiedung, Marcus; Don, Axel; Heilek, Stefan; Dechow, René; Vasylyeva, Elli; Heidkamp, Arne; Prietz, Roland; Flessa, Heinz |
| Abstract: | The dynamics of organic soil carbon (SOC) play an important role in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and are therefore included in national greenhouse gas inventories. SOC is also essential for soil fertility. On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, the Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture therefore conducted the first nationwide representative inventory of agricultural soils (BZE-LW) between 2010 and 2018. A total of 3, 104 arable, grassland and permanent crop sites were sampled in an 8x8 km grid and analysed for SOC contents and stocks, as well as other parameters, down to a depth of 1 m. The BZE- LW repeat inventory project began in 2022, and since the beginning of 2023, resampling of the sites identified at that time has been in full swing. In addition to soil sampling, annual management data is also being collected. The main objective of this project is to quantify and explain potential changes in SOC contents and stocks over the past decade. This interim report presents the initial results of the ongoing repeat inventory. Compared to the initial BZE-LW, there were some deviations in the implementation of the repeat inventory. Only the top 50 cm are sampled and organic soils are not resampled. Instead of a central profile pit and eight additional core drillings, four small pits are now excavated for sampling. Some parameters are not recorded again (e.g. soil type, grain size distribution, stone content), while others have been added (e.g. aggregate stability, air capacity, cation exchange capacity). By October 2025, approximately 1, 350 sites in eight federal states had been resampled and almost 1, 000 had been analysed for bulk density and SOC content in order to calculate mass-corrected SOC stock changes. During the initial evaluation, it was noticed that the initial SOC content of the topsoil from the profile pit was systematically slightly too high, leading to an overestimation of SOC losses. For this reason, the SOC contents from additional core samples of the initial BZE-LW were used instead. However, analysis of those has not been completed yet, which is why only 587 sites have been included in the evaluation at this stage. Slight changes in SOC content have been observed in arable soils over the past decade. While a slightly positive trend in SOC content was observed on average in 0-10 and 10-30 cm, the change in SOC stocks in 0-30 cm (-1.6%) and 0-50 cm (-2.7%) was significantly negative due to a slight decrease in bulk density despite mass correction. At a depth of 0-10 cm, however, the change in SOC stocks was also slightly positive (0.9%), which can possibly be explained by a nationwide decline in tillage intensity and the resulting redistribution of SOC in the soil profile. However, the evaluation of the management data from the questionnaire was so far focused on one parameter: the frequency of cover cropping. In this respect, the BZE-LW data correspond well with national data, which show approximately a doubling of the annual cover crop area in the period under review. However, this gradual increase in SOC input into German arable soils was apparently not sufficient to compensate for potential negative influences on SOC. For grassland, there was a more pronounced decrease in SOC stocks, which was most pronounced at a depth of 0-10 cm (-8.1%). At depths of 0-30 cm and 0-50 cm, the significant relative decreases were -5.9% and -5.1%. Negative trends were also observed on average at all depth levels for the 14 permanent crop sites to date. The investigation of the causes of these SOC losses is still ongoing. According to the hypotheses developed here, it is land use history and soil genesis, rapidly advancing climate change, and recent changes in cultivation practices that are affecting the SOC dynamics currently being observed: The historically wet and often SOC-rich sandy soils of north-western Germany tend to suffer particularly severe SOC losses under current land use, which is consistent with the results of long-term soil observations in Lower Saxony and the neighboring Netherlands. Over the last 50 years, there has been an average air temperature increase of 2.1êC at the BZE-LW sites, about half of which has occurred in the last 1-2 decades. According to modelling and experimental work, warming alone is sufficient to explain the II magnitude of average SOC losses. Finally, national statistics clearly indicate a reduction in livestock farming and nitrogen fertilisation, which is also likely to have a negative impact on SOC stocks. Separating the various factors influencing SOC stocks requires complex methodology and will be a central part of the next project phase, alongside the completion of resampling and the remeasurement of the initial core samples. Another challenge will be the preparation and implementation of new reporting requirements, in particular the EU Soil Monitoring Law. The trends observed to date only apply to part of the Federal Republic of Germany. The average rates of change presented here should therefore not be extrapolated. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural soils, soil monitoring, soil organic matter, soil carbon, greenhouse gas reporting |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:jhtiwp:333952 |
| By: | Seereeram, Alvin |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc00:265494 |
| By: | Pemberton, Carlisle |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc00:265502 |
| By: | Phillips, Winston J. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc73:264354 |
| By: | Halkos, George |
| Abstract: | This paper reviews and develops a theoretical and empirical representation of economic incentives for the implementation of pollution control strategies. A number of alternative available economic instruments may be thought of which, if applied internationally, could encourage implementation of the desired abatement strategies by countries. The paper considers means of pushing the countries to minimize abatement costs within them. A comparison between the pollution targets achieved by the imposition of a uniform charge rate and by differentiated charge rates is discussed and empirical results are provided with associated conclusions. These results are then compared with a simple standards setting in the form of critical loads, in order to see in an empirical way if economic instruments work better than regulations. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uyoarc:263914 |
| By: | Zaman, Azaz; Miao, Ruiqing |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, Agribusiness |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:344069 |
| By: | Lawani, Abdelaziz |
| Keywords: | Agribusiness, Environmental Economics and Policy, Institutional and Behavioral Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:344080 |
| By: | Elan Satriawan (Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada); Esa Azali Asyahid (Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada); Wisnu Setiadi Nugroho (Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada); Rimawan Pradiptyo (Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada); Ranjan Shrestha (Department of Economics, College of Arts and Sciences, The College of William & Mary) |
| Abstract: | This study examines the impact of temperature on labor productivity in Indonesian household-based enterprises. We combine data on micro and small enterprises from the Indonesian Family Life Survey with historical temperature data to estimate the effect of an increase in temperature on labor productivity, proxied by revenue per worker. Our empirical strategy relies on plausibly exogenous temporal variations in temperature within each geographic area. The results indicate that holding an enterprise’s production function fixed, a 1 °C increase in the 12-month average temperature reduces revenue per worker by 16%. Additional analyses using deviations from long-term monthly average temperatures, which reduce seasonality concerns, yield similar results, as year-month fixed effects are already incorporated. The findings highlight the significant impact of temperature changes on labor productivity in vulnerable economic sectors, emphasizing the need for targeted policies to enhance climate resilience in Indonesia's household-based enterprises. |
| Keywords: | Climate Change, Indonesia, Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS), Micro and Small Household-based Enterprises |
| JEL: | Q51 Q54 I31 |
| Date: | 2025–07 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gme:wpaper:202507007 |
| By: | Halkos, G. E.; Hutton, J. P. |
| Abstract: | Acid rain causes greater environmental damage than would occur if countries act cooperatively. Based on new estimates of sulphur abatement cost fimctions, the potential gains from cooperation are calculated for Europe. Various cooperative abatement rates are compared with the rates implied by recent international agreements. The distinction is made between primary and secondary abatement, and their respective roles are discussed. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uyoarc:263920 |
| By: | Zheng, Yanan; Goodhue, Rachael E. |
| Keywords: | Farm Management, Crop Production/Industries, Agricultural and Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343560 |
| By: | Phillips, Winston J. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc00:265493 |
| By: | Schiff, Maurice |
| Abstract: | I examine whether trade can improve the impact of population growth on natural resources (NR) and welfare over time. Under autarky, population growth results in NR and welfare collapse over time for any value of the returns to scale in the manufacturing sector, ϕ. Under trade, NR and welfare are unchanged (increase) (collapse) over time for ϕ = (>)( |
| Keywords: | Population growth, Renewable natural resources (NR), Trade vs autarky, Impact on NR and welfare |
| JEL: | F16 F18 Q27 Q56 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:glodps:1700 |
| By: | Halkos, G. E. |
| Abstract: | This paper provides a model that attempts to deal with the transboundary nature of the acid rain problem, using a game theoretic approach consistent with mainstream economic theory. The general forms of cooperative and non-cooperative equilibria in the explicit and implicit set-up of the model are presented under the assumptions of deterministic and stochastic deposits. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uyoarc:263921 |
| By: | Pike, Susie; Waechter, Maxwell |
| Abstract: | This project reviews and summarizes empirical evidence for a selection of transportation and land use policies, infrastructure investments, demand management programs, and pricing policies for reducing vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The project explicitly considers social equity (fairness that accounts for differences in opportunity) and justice (equity of social systems) for the strategies and their outcomes. Each brief identifies the best available evidence in the peer-reviewed academic literature and has detailed discussions of study selection and methodological issues. VMT and GHG emissions reduction is shown by effect size, defined as the amount of change in VMT (or other measures of travel behavior) per unit of the strategy, e.g., a unit increase in density. Effect sizes can be used to predict the outcome of a proposed policy or strategy. They can be in absolute terms (e.g., VMT reduced), but are more commonly in relative terms (e.g., percent VMT reduced). Relative effect sizes are often reported as the percent change in the outcome divided by the percent change in the strategy, also called an elasticity. |
| Keywords: | Social and Behavioral Sciences |
| Date: | 2025–04–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cdl:itsdav:qt303675p9 |
| By: | Pike, Susie |
| Abstract: | This project reviews and summarizes empirical evidence for a selection of transportation and land use policies, infrastructure investments, demand management programs, and pricing policies for reducing vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The project explicitly considers social equity (fairness that accounts for differences in opportunity) and justice (equity of social systems) for the strategies and their outcomes. Each brief identifies the best available evidence in the peer-reviewed academic literature and has detailed discussions of study selection and methodological issues. VMT and GHG emissions reduction is shown by effect size, defined as the amount of change in VMT (or other measures of travel behavior) per unit of the strategy, e.g., a unit increase in density. Effect sizes can be used to predict the outcome of a proposed policy or strategy. They can be in absolute terms (e.g., VMT reduced), but are more commonly in relative terms (e.g., percent VMT reduced). Relative effect sizes are often reported as the percent change in the outcome divided by the percent change in the strategy, also called an elasticity. |
| Keywords: | Social and Behavioral Sciences |
| Date: | 2025–04–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cdl:itsdav:qt10m052z2 |
| By: | Nguyen, Ha; Mitrou, Francis |
| Abstract: | In light of growing concerns over escalating natural disaster risks and persistently low fertility rates, this paper quantifies the causal impacts of tropical cyclones and identifies the pathways through which they influence childbearing decisions among Australians of reproductive age. Using an individual fixed effects model and exogenous variation in cyclone exposure, we find a robust and substantial decline in fertility, occurring only after the most severe category 5 cyclones, with the effect weakening as distance from the cyclone’s eye increases. We find no evidence of delayed cyclone effects, indicating that the fertility loss attributable to these most severe cyclones is permanent. Our findings are robust to extensive validity checks, including a falsification test and various randomization tests. The fertility decline is most pronounced among younger adults, individuals with lower educational attainment, those childless at baseline, and those lacking prior private health or residential insurance. While physical health, financial constraints, and migration appear unlikely to drive the effect, the evidence points to reduced family formation, increased marital breakdown, child mortality, cyclone-induced home damage, elevated psychological stress, and heightened risk perceptions as plausible mechanisms. |
| Keywords: | Natural Disasters; Cyclones; Fertility; Marriage; Australia |
| JEL: | D1 J1 J12 J13 Q5 Q54 |
| Date: | 2025–11 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:126989 |
| By: | Nino, Gustavo |
| Keywords: | Demand and Price Analysis, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343594 |
| By: | Hutchins, Jared P. |
| Keywords: | Livestock Production/Industries, Environmental Economics and Policy, Agricultural and Food Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343868 |
| By: | Pike, Susie |
| Abstract: | This project reviews and summarizes empirical evidence for a selection of transportation and land use policies, infrastructure investments, demand management programs, and pricing policies for reducing vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The project explicitly considers social equity (fairness that accounts for differences in opportunity) and justice (equity of social systems) for the strategies and their outcomes. Each brief identifies the best available evidence in the peer-reviewed academic literature and has detailed discussions of study selection and methodological issues. VMT and GHG emissions reduction is shown by effect size, defined as the amount of change in VMT (or other measures of travel behavior) per unit of the strategy, e.g., a unit increase in density. Effect sizes can be used to predict the outcome of a proposed policy or strategy. They can be in absolute terms (e.g., VMT reduced), but are more commonly in relative terms (e.g., percent VMT reduced). Relative effect sizes are often reported as the percent change in the outcome divided by the percent change in the strategy, also called an elasticity. |
| Keywords: | Social and Behavioral Sciences |
| Date: | 2025–04–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cdl:itsdav:qt0pm432rc |
| By: | Poeplau, Christopher; Harbo, Laura Sofie; Schneider, Florian; Schiedung, Marcus; Don, Axel; Heilek, Stefan; Dechow, René; Vasylyeva, Elli; Heidkamp, Arne; Prietz, Roland; Flessa, Heinz |
| Abstract: | Die Dynamik von organischem Bodenkohlenstoff (Corg) spielt eine wichtige Rolle für die atmosphärische CO2- Konzentration und ist somit Bestandteil nationaler Treibhausgasinventare. Auch für die Bodenfruchtbarkeit ist Corg essentiell. Im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat hat das Thünen-Institut für Agrarklimaschutz deshalb in den Jahren 2010-2018 die erste bundesweit repräsentative Bodenzustandserhebung Landwirtschaft (BZE-LW) durchgeführt. In einem 8x8 km Raster wurden insgesamt 3104 Acker-, Grünland und Dauerkulturstandorte beprobt und bis in 1 m Tiefe auf Corg-Gehalt und Vorrat, sowie weitere Kenngrößen analysiert. Das Projekt Wiederholungsinventur der BZE-LW hat 2022 begonnen und seit Anfang 2023 ist die Wiederbeprobung der damals festgelegten Standorte in vollem Gang. Zusätzlich zur Bodenprobenahme werden jährliche Bewirtschaftungsdaten erfasst. Zentrales Ziel dieses Projekts ist es, Änderungen der Corg-Gehalte, und Vorräte im vergangenen Jahrzehnt zu quantifizieren und zu erklären. Im vorliegenden Zwischenbericht werden erste Ergebnisse der laufenden Wiederholungsinventur vorgestellt. Verglichen mit der initialen BZE-LW ergaben sich einige Abweichungen in der Durchführung der Wiederholungsinventur. Es werden die obersten 50 cm beprobt, da Bodenveränderungen im tiefen Unterbodenin der Regel sehr viel langsamer verlaufen und organische Böden werden nicht erneut beprobt, da parallel ein extra Moorbodenmonitoring etabliert wurde. Statt einer zentralen Profilgrube und acht zusätzlichen Kernbohrungen, werden nun vier kleine Schurfgruben für die Probenahme ausgehoben. Einige Kenngrößen werden nicht erneut aufgenommen (z.B. Bodentyp, Korngrößenverteilung, Steingehalte), andere kamen hinzu (z.B. Aggregatstabilität, Luftkapazität, Kationenaustauschkapazität). Bis Oktober 2025 wurden circa 1350 Standorte in acht Bundesländern wiederbeprobt und knapp 1000 auf Trockenrohdichte und Corg-Gehalte analysiert, um massekorrigierte Corg-Vorratsänderungen zu berechnen. Bei erster Auswertung fiel auf, dass die initialen Corg-Gehalte des Oberbodens aus der Profilgrube systematisch etwas zu hoch waren und somit zu einer Überschätzung von Corg-Verlusten führten. Aus diesem Grund wurde auf die Corg-Gehalte der zusätzlichen Bohrkerne der initialen BZE-LW zurückgegriffen. Diese liegen bislang jedoch nicht vollständig vor, weshalb zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt nur 587 Standorte in die Auswertung eingeflossen sind. In Ackerböden wurden für das vergangene Jahrzehnt sehr geringe Corg-Veränderungen festgestellt. Während in 0-10 und 10-30 cm eine im Mittel leicht positive Tendenz der Corg-Gehalte festgestellt wurde, war die Corg-Vorratsänderung in 0-30 cm (-1.6 %) und 0-50 cm (-2.7 %) durch leicht abnehmende Trockenrohdichten trotz Massekorrektur signifikant negativ. In 0-10 cm Tiefe war jedoch auch die Corg- Vorratsänderung leicht positiv (0.9 %), was sich möglicherweise durch eine bundesweit abnehmende Bodenbearbeitungsintensität und dadurch einsetzende Umverteilung von Corg im Bodenprofil erklären lässt. Die Auswertung der Bewirtschaftungsdaten aus dem Fragebogen wurde jedoch bislang auf einen Parameter konzentriert: der Häufigkeit von Zwischenfruchtanbau. Hierbei stimmen die BZE-LW Daten gut mit nationalen Daten überein, welche in etwa eine Verdopplung der jährlichen Zwischenfruchtanbaufläche im betrachteten Zeitraum anzeigen. Die damit verbundene sukzessive Steigerung des Corg-Eintrags in deutschen Ackerböden war jedoch offenbar nicht ausreichend, um potenzielle negative Einflüsse auf Corg zu kompensieren. Für Grünländer zeigte sich eine deutlichere Abnahme des Corg-Vorrats, die in 0-10 cm Tiefe am stärksten ausgeprägt war (-8.1 %). In 0-30 cm und 0-50 cm Tiefe betrugen die signifikanten relativen Abnahmen -5.9 % und -5.1 %. Auch für die bislang 14 Dauerkulturstandorte wurden im Mittel in allen Tiefenstufen negative Tendenzen beobachtet. Die Ergründung von Ursachen dieser Corg-Verluste steht zur Zeit dieses Zwischenberichts noch am Anfang. Laut den hier herausgearbeiteten Hypothesen sind es sowohl Landnutzungsgeschichte und Bodengenese, der rapide voranschreitende Klimawandel, als auch rezente Bewirtschaftungsänderungen, die auf II momentan zu beobachtende Corg-Dynamik wirken: Die historisch nassen und häufig Corg-reichen sandigen Böden Nordwest-Deutschlands tendieren unter heutiger Nutzung zu besonders starken Corg-Verlusten, was sich mit Resultaten der niedersächsischer Bodendauerbeobachtung und aus den benachbarten Niederlanden deckt. In den letzten 50 Jahren kam es im Mittel auf den BZE-LW Standorten zu einer Temperaturerhöhung von insgesamt 2.1êC, davon etwa die Hälfte in den letzten 1-2 Jahrzehnten. Modellierungen und experimentellen Arbeiten zu Folge reicht allein die Erwärmung aus, um die Größenordnung der mittleren Corg-Verluste zu erklären. Letztlich weisen nationale Statistiken eindeutig auf eine Reduktion der Tierhaltung und Stickstoff-Düngung hin, zwei Faktoren, die ebenfalls den Vorrat an Corg beeinflussen können. Eine Auftrennung der verschiedenen Einflussfaktoren auf Corg-Vorräte bedarf komplexer Methodik und wird neben der Komplettierung der Wiederbeprobung, sowie der Nachmessung der initialen Bohrkernproben zentraler Inhalt der nächsten Projektphase sein. Eine weitere Herausforderung wird die Vorbereitung und Umsetzung neuer Berichtspflichten, insbesondere der EU-Bodenüberwachungs-Richtlinie darstellen. Die bislang beobachteten Trends gelten nur für einen Teil der Bundesrepublik. Die hier dargestellten mittleren Änderungsraten sollten deshalb nicht extrapoliert werden. |
| Abstract: | The dynamics of organic soil carbon (SOC) play an important role in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and are therefore included in national greenhouse gas inventories. SOC is also essential for soil fertility. On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, the Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture therefore conducted the first nationwide representative inventory of agricultural soils (BZE-LW) between 2010 and 2018. A total of 3, 104 arable, grassland and permanent crop sites were sampled in an 8x8 km grid and analysed for SOC contents and stocks, as well as other parameters, down to a depth of 1 m. The BZE- LW repeat inventory project began in 2022, and since the beginning of 2023, resampling of the sites identified at that time has been in full swing. In addition to soil sampling, annual management data is also being collected. The main objective of this project is to quantify and explain potential changes in SOC contents and stocks over the past decade. This interim report presents the initial results of the ongoing repeat inventory. Compared to the initial BZE-LW, there were some deviations in the implementation of the repeat inventory. Only the top 50 cm are sampled and organic soils are not resampled. Instead of a central profile pit and eight additional core drillings, four small pits are now excavated for sampling. Some parameters are not recorded again (e.g. soil type, grain size distribution, stone content), while others have been added (e.g. aggregate stability, air capacity, cation exchange capacity). By October 2025, approximately 1, 350 sites in eight federal states had been resampled and almost 1, 000 had been analysed for bulk density and SOC content in order to calculate mass-corrected SOC stock changes. During the initial evaluation, it was noticed that the initial SOC content of the topsoil from the profile pit was systematically slightly too high, leading to an overestimation of SOC losses. For this reason, the SOC contents from additional core samples of the initial BZE-LW were used instead. However, analysis of those has not been completed yet, which is why only 587 sites have been included in the evaluation at this stage. Slight changes in SOC content have been observed in arable soils over the past decade. While a slightly positive trend in SOC content was observed on average in 0-10 and 10-30 cm, the change in SOC stocks in 0-30 cm (-1.6%) and 0-50 cm (-2.7%) was significantly negative due to a slight decrease in bulk density despite mass correction. At a depth of 0-10 cm, however, the change in SOC stocks was also slightly positive (0.9%), which can possibly be explained by a nationwide decline in tillage intensity and the resulting redistribution of SOC in the soil profile. However, the evaluation of the management data from the questionnaire was so far focused on one parameter: the frequency of cover cropping. In this respect, the BZE-LW data correspond well with national data, which show approximately a doubling of the annual cover crop area in the period under review. However, this gradual increase in SOC input into German arable soils was apparently not sufficient to compensate for potential negative influences on SOC. For grassland, there was a more pronounced decrease in SOC stocks, which was most pronounced at a depth of 0-10 cm (-8.1%). At depths of 0-30 cm and 0-50 cm, the significant relative decreases were -5.9% and -5.1%. Negative trends were also observed on average at all depth levels for the 14 permanent crop sites to date. The investigation of the causes of these SOC losses is still ongoing. According to the hypotheses developed here, it is land use history and soil genesis, rapidly advancing climate change, and recent changes in cultivation practices that are affecting the SOC dynamics currently being observed: The historically wet and often SOC-rich sandy soils of north-western Germany tend to suffer particularly severe SOC losses under current land use, which is consistent with the results of long-term soil observations in Lower Saxony and the neighboring Netherlands. Over the last 50 years, there has been an average air temperature increase of 2.1êC at the BZE-LW sites, about half of which has occurred in the last 1-2 decades. According to modelling and experimental work, warming alone is sufficient to explain the II magnitude of average SOC losses. Finally, national statistics clearly indicate a reduction in livestock farming and nitrogen fertilisation, which is also likely to have a negative impact on SOC stocks. Separating the various factors influencing SOC stocks requires complex methodology and will be a central part of the next project phase, alongside the completion of resampling and the remeasurement of the initial core samples. Another challenge will be the preparation and implementation of new reporting requirements, in particular the EU Soil Monitoring Law. The trends observed to date only apply to part of the Federal Republic of Germany. The average rates of change presented here should therefore not be extrapolated. |
| Keywords: | Landwirtschaftliche Böden, Bodenmonitoring, organische Bodensubstanz, Bodenkohlenstoff, Treibhausgasberichterstattung, Agricultural soils, soil monitoring, soil organic matter, soil carbon, greenhouse gas reporting |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:jhtiwp:333953 |
| By: | Eßer, Jana; Flörchinger, Daniela; Frondel, Manuel; Sommer, Stephan |
| Abstract: | Habits pose a potentially strong barrier to reducing meat consumption. Drawing on data from a framed field experiment over 14 months, we address the challenge of changing meat consumption habits and examine whether repeated informational and supportive newsletter interventions reduce self-reported meat consumption. While on average we find no evidence for a reduction in meat intake in response to the interventions, individuals with favorable pre-conditions, such as those with a low baseline consumption, moderately decrease their meat consumption. In addition, the interventions were effective in changing meat consumption among female but not male respondents. A back-of-the-envelope calculation indicates that the scope for reducing nutrition-related carbon emissions through newsletters is small. |
| Abstract: | Gewohnheiten stellen ein potenziell großes Hindernis für die Reduzierung des Fleischkonsums dar. Anhand von Daten aus einem über 14 Monate durchgeführten Feldversuch befassen wir uns mit der Herausforderung, Fleischkonsumgewohnheiten zu ändern, und untersuchen, ob wiederholte informative und unterstützende Newsletter-Interventionen den selbst angegebenen Fleischkonsum reduzieren. Während wir im Durchschnitt keine Hinweise auf eine Verringerung des Fleischkonsums als Reaktion auf die Interventionen finden, reduzieren Personen mit günstigen Voraussetzungen, wie z. B. diejenigen mit einem geringen Ausgangskonsum, ihren Fleischkonsum moderat. Darüber hinaus waren die Maßnahmen bei der Änderung des Fleischkonsums bei weiblichen, jedoch nicht bei männlichen Befragten wirksam. Eine überschlägige Berechnung zeigt, dass der Spielraum für die Reduzierung ernährungsbedingter CO2-Emissionen durch Newsletter gering ist. |
| Keywords: | Framed field experiment, meat consumption, climate change mitigation |
| JEL: | D12 D91 Q18 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:rwirep:333894 |
| By: | Shivani, .; Khan, Sarah; Ramji, Aditya |
| Keywords: | Engineering, Social and Behavioral Sciences |
| Date: | 2025–12–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cdl:itsdav:qt5wj570b8 |
| By: | Hawkins, Isobel; Gao, Shuo; Kim, Youngho; Teytelboym, Alexander; Bull, Joseph W.; Maron, Martine; Milner-Gulland, E.J.; Kate, Kerry ten; Theis, Sebastian; zu Ermgassen, Sophus |
| Abstract: | The global community has committed to a substantial increase in the scale of investment in nature via Target 19 of the Kunming-Montreal agreement. An important but understudied mechanism for attracting private investment into biodiversity outcomes is conservation compensation funds – funds that aggregate payments to compensate for negative impacts on biodiversity to contribute to strategic objectives. We described the principles of effective compensation funds based on economic and ecological theory, and assembled by far the largest database of operational compensation funds to date (32 funds across 17 countries) through a mixed methods review. We explored the variety of practice in real-world implementation, and how empirical practice compares to theory, highlighting key gaps. In doing so, we provided a guide to the design of ecologically effective compensation funds, a hitherto understudied but potentially substantial source of investment for biodiversity outcomes. |
| Date: | 2025–12–24 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:fbqms_v1 |
| By: | Judd, Rachel; Rouhi Rad, Mani |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics and Policy |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343614 |
| By: | Dennis J. Snower |
| Abstract: | The experience of rapid economic growth and transition to high-income status in Asian countries has brought about significant improvements in material well-being and aggregate economic prosperity. This article examines the degree to which economic prosperity is the “great enabler” of social and environmental prosperity. We provide conceptual reasons why this is not necessarily the case and empirical evidence that the escape from the middle-income trap in three Asian high-income countries – Japan, Singapore and South Korea – was a mixed blessing, linked to challenges regarding social solidarity, personal and collective agency and environmental stewardship. Under these circumstances, traditional prescriptions for escaping the middle-income trap are insufficient. Without success in the social and environmental spheres, social fragmentation and environmental disruption is likely to occur, possibly leading to political instabilities, economic fragmentation and social conflict. This paper investigates this problem for the three Asian high-income countries, based on empirical measures of solidarity (S), agency (A), material gain (G) and environmental stewardship (E) that are consistent through time and across countries. On this foundation, policy recommendations are considered that are meant to run alongside the standard prescriptions to make the resulting package socially and environmentally acceptable. |
| Keywords: | middle-income trap, economic development, human flourishing, social cohesion, agency, environmental stewardship, growth, wellbeing |
| JEL: | O10 O47 O53 I31 Q56 Q01 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_12325 |
| By: | Pavlina R. Tcherneva |
| Abstract: | The following remarks were delivered as the keynote at the joint Global Forum for Social and Solidarity Economy (GSEF) and International Centre of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy (CIRIEC) conferences in Bordeaux, France, on October 29, 2025. We are living through a moment of deep division across our politics, economies, and environment, a division that stems from a deliberate forgetting--a self-induced amnesia, if you will. For decades, political parties have treated the working family as a slogan rather than the foundation of a healthy society. This amnesia was aided and abetted by mainstream economic theory that treated the economy as a financial machine, not a social ecosystem. The abandonment of family wellbeing, and working people in particular, created a void now being filled by authoritarians. I would like to propose a project of democratic renewal capable of mending our social fabric while addressing the defining challenge of our age: the climate crisis. This project begins with a simple, radical, and fundamentally democratic idea: guaranteeing the right to a decent, living-wage job to everyone who seeks one. |
| Date: | 2025–11 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lev:levypn:25-9 |
| By: | Beckford, G.L. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Relations/Trade |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc68:263889 |
| By: | Khonje, Makaiko; Nyondo, Christone; Chilora, Lemekezani; Mangisoni, Julius H.; Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob; Burke, William J. |
| Abstract: | • The Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) has been implemented since 2004, yet yields for key crops have remained low due to low crop response to inorganic fertilizers, which has limited the programʼs effect on food insecurity and poverty. • The poor response is partly attributed to poor soil health and low adoption rates of soil and water conservation practices. • Using data from a decade-long nationally representative panel, we analyze joint adoption effects of input subsidies and integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) on crop income and nutrition. • Participation in FISP is positively correlated with adoption of ISFM practices, including conservation agriculture, soil and water conservation, and organic fertilizers. • Joint use of input subsidies and ISFM practices is positively correlated with higher crop income and improved household nutrition. • Policy proposals to address low productivity and nutritional insecurity are highlighted |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:maappb:329213 |
| By: | Halkos, George |
| Abstract: | This study summarizes the available information on the technical characteristics and costs of those sulphur abatement technologies in operation at present or coming into operation in the near future. Relying on disaggregated source data and using engineering cost functions and various technical and economic assumptions, the least cost curves of abatement for all the European countries have been derived and some examples are presenter. Finally, a sensitivity analysis of abatement strategies and costs to some alternative assumptions about energy futures is presenied. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uyoarc:263915 |
| By: | Bell, Peter |
| Abstract: | The historic strategy of global resource imperialism, implemented by the 2013 Belt and Road Initiative from the People's Republic of China, has set a new competitive landscape for economic development worldwide, and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a priority case study for the impacts of rapidly modernizing local transportation networks, energy infrastructure, and the economy. It is essential to track local attitudes towards these government programs, as in the research by Saif, Meixia, and Saleem (2023) from Dalian Jiaotong University, which provides survey results from construction industry participants in Pakistan during this ongoing massive infrastructure investment program. |
| Keywords: | Surveys, Belt and Road Initiative, CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor), Construction industry, Transnational operation management, Sustainability, Environmental impact, Economic impact, Investment, Technology transfer, Infrastructure development, Stakeholder engagement, Governance, Capacity building, Innovation |
| JEL: | C0 D2 E0 E02 E6 E65 F2 F21 F4 F6 G0 H0 H5 H54 J08 J4 K33 L5 L7 L74 L78 M5 O2 P0 Q0 Q33 R0 R58 |
| Date: | 2025–11–17 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:126852 |
| By: | Simon Disque; Björn Bos; Moritz A. Drupp |
| Abstract: | Sustainability indices are essential to track development progress and guide policy. They often aggregate diverse dimensions into a composite index, requiring value-based choices about the importance of each dimension (weighting) and the extent to which weaknesses in some area can be offset by strengths in others (substitutability). Such choices strongly shape indices but lack empirical support. We introduce a preference-elicitation experiment to align aggregation choices with stakeholder views and apply it to the Ocean Health Index (OHI). Respondents from twelve coastal countries predominantly view OHI goals as complementary, challenging current assumptions of perfect substitutability. Incorporating these public preferences yields substantially lower OHI scores, suggesting that ocean sustainability may be overstated and that policy should focus more on improving the weakest-performing dimensions. |
| Keywords: | sustainability, indices, substitutability, oceans, experimental economics |
| JEL: | H41 O13 Q01 Q25 C99 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_12318 |
| By: | Schiff, Maurice |
| Abstract: | I examine the impact of population growth and endogenous migration on renewable natural resources (NR) and welfare in a general equilibrium model with two sectors - a commodity and a manufacturing sector, and with two inputs - labor and NR. Under population growth and no migration, a country's NR and welfare are unchanged (increase) (decline and eventually collapse) over time for constant (increasing) (decreasing) returns to scale in the manufacturing sector, i.e., for ϕ = (>)( |
| Keywords: | Migration, Population growth, Renewable natural resources (NR), Impact on NR and welfare |
| JEL: | F16 F18 Q27 Q56 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:glodps:1701 |
| By: | Jolly, Curtis M.; Keefe, Alison; Ligeon, Carel |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc00:265539 |
| By: | Sunagawa Tomohiro (Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)); Moinul Islam (Research Institute for Future Design, Kochi University of Technology); Koji Kotani (Research Institute for Future Design, Kochi University of Technology) |
| Abstract: | Many regions encounter a dilemma of how economic growth should be pursued with cultural and environmental conservation under global competition. While there are several articles that examine the relationship between development and environment, little is known about how people in a region prefer future development scenarios across economic growth and conservation. We pose a research question of how Miyako Island (MYK) people in Japan prefer a future development scenario over the growth vs. the conservation as well as rural tourism vs. urban one. It is hypothesized that (i) prosocial people and/or with an identity “I am a MYK person†prefer conservation by rural tourism and (ii) people with long residential time in MYK prefer economic growth by urban tourism. We conducted online choice experiments with permanent and temporary residents, collecting the data over their preferences for the scenarios, pro-sociality, experiences and socioeconomic factors. The results show that (i) people who have spent a relatively long period of their lives in (outside) MYK prefer the growth (conservation), (ii) a majority of MYK people are prosocial and do not prefer economic growth by urban tourism and (iii) prosocial and/or environmentally concerned people support conservation by rural tourism. Overall, we interpret that how people have been associated with MYK as residents or outsiders causes their preference gap, however, the gap will get resolved to conservation by rural tourism as people become prosocial and environmentally-concerned. In addition, it is concluded that the current development process that follows economic growth by urban tourism in MYK is unlikely to contribute to the residents’ wellbeing due to discrepancy with what the residents prefer on the basis of our results. |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:kch:wpaper:sdes-2025-11 |
| By: | Benston John (St. Stephen’s College, Delhi & Doctoral Candidate, Delhi School of Economics); E. Somanathan (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, India); Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi) |
| Abstract: | Cool roof technologies, especially cool roof paint, offer a low-cost, easily scalable, and low-emission alternative to energy-intensive air-conditioning for reducing heat exposure in buildings - an increasingly urgent need in developing countries facing rising temperatures due to climate change. We evaluate the effectiveness of a cool roof intervention - white reflective paint applied to the roofs of government pre-schools (anganwadis) in Thiruvananthapuram district of the Indian state of Kerala—using a randomized controlled trial. The cool roof paint reduces indoor temperatures in treated pre-schools by approximately 1.3?C. Staff in treatment pre-schools report significantly lower thermal discomfort. We also find meaningful improvements in children’s cognitive performance, amounting to roughly 6.4% of the baseline mean. The intervention has no detectable effect on children’s attendance. Overall, our findings demonstrate that cool roofs can serve as a practical and scalable adaptation strategy to mitigate heat stress in low-resource educational settings. |
| Keywords: | Adaptation to Heat, RCT, Pre-schools, Temperature, Thermal comfort, Cognitive performance, Learning outcome, India JEL codes: I21, I25, Q54, Q56 |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cde:cdewps:358 |
| By: | Javier Ferri; Francisca Herranz-Báez |
| Abstract: | This paper analyzes the macroeconomic and distributional impacts of carbon pricing policies targeting both residential and non-residential sectors. Using a model that incorporates nominal price rigidities, sectoral labor adjustment, and financial frictions tied to housing collateral, we uncover critical transmission mechanisms affecting household welfare.Our analysis highlights the distinct effects on borrowers and lenders: carbon pricing in the non-residential sector reduces labor demand and wages, disproportionately impacting borrowers, while residential carbon pricing lowers housing prices, tightening credit constraints for borrowers but imposing higher welfare costs on lenders who own more housing assets. |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fda:fdaddt:2025-14 |
| By: | Treakle, Tyler; Abbott, Joshua K. |
| Keywords: | Resource/Energy Economics and Policy, Land Economics/Use |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343607 |
| By: | Vincent Chatellier (SMART - Structures et Marché Agricoles, Ressources et Territoires - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement) |
| Abstract: | This conference focuses on various challenges facing the European beef industry. It addresses four areas in turn: meat production and consumption (including beef) worldwide and in the EU; international and European trade in beef; EU-Mercosur relations and tensions surrounding the potential beef agreement; and the decisive role of the future CAP for beef farms. |
| Abstract: | Cette conférence porte sur différents défis posés à la filière bovine européenne. Elle aborde successivement quatre volets : la production et la consommation de viande (dont viande bovine) dans le monde et l'UE ; les échanges internationaux et européens de viande bovine ; les relations UE-Mercosur et les tensions autour du potentiel accord en viande bovine ; le rôle déterminant de la future PAC pour les exploitations bovins-viande. |
| Keywords: | International trade, Beef, Consumption, CAP, Free trade agreement, Production, PAC, Accord de libre-échange, Echanges internationaux, Consommation, Viande bovine |
| Date: | 2025–11–26 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05430388 |
| By: | Munthali, Maggie G.; Chilora, Lemekezani; Nyirenda, Zephania; Salonga, Dinah; Wineman, Ayala; Muyanga, Milu |
| Abstract: | Key Messages • Small-scale aquaculture has potential to improve food security in Malawi and contribute to rural livelihoods as a source of income. • Small-scale fish farmers are impeded by a lack of access to high quality feed, fingerlings, relevant aquaculture extension services, and well-structured output markets, and are also affected by climate change. • Promising areas for investment in small-scale aquaculture therefore include improving access to high quality fish feed through domestic production, training certified hatchery operators, facilitating access to formal fish markets, and developing guidelines for cage farming. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Food Security and Poverty, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:maappb:338591 |
| By: | Kala, Namrata (MIT Sloan School of Management; BREAD; CEPR; J-PAL; NBER); Haseeb, Muhammad (University of Bristol); Fenske, James (University of Warwick) |
| Abstract: | Effective regulatory design requires an understanding of how regulatory burden affects regulated entities. Using novel data on all applications for environmental permits in five Indian states and a natural experiment, we estimate how regulatory burden of environmental permitting affects firms. Difference-in-difference estimates show that deregulation induces smaller firms to enter and increases entry. Standard data sources would miss these substantial effects, underscoring the importance of collecting data across the firm size distribution. We also use full texts of permit certificates to create novel measures of regulatory burden. Firms in industries with reduced regulations face fewer, less stringent, permit conditions. |
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| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cge:wacage:784 |
| By: | Hiroaki Sakamoto; Christian Traeger; Christian P. Traeger |
| Abstract: | We study coalition formation with externalities under voluntary, non-binding participation. Motivated by climate agreements, where standard modeling predicts small, inefficient coalitions, we propose a new solution concept—the self-enforcing stable set. It synthesizes the self-enforcing logic of non-cooperative approaches with the consistency requirement of cooperative forward-looking stability. By endogenizing players' beliefs about the eventual outcomes of negotiations, we show that rational foresight disciplines strategic free-riding and selects constrained Pareto efficient outcomes. In canonical climate-agreement models, this yields sharp predictions: stable coalitions must be large and only mildly fragmented, aligning closely with observed participation patterns. |
| Keywords: | coalition formation, self-enforcing agreements, international agreements, public goods, climate change |
| JEL: | C71 F53 H41 Q54 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_12360 |
| By: | Bernd Bonfert (Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School) |
| Abstract: | Rising energy costs expose the instability of our energy system and underline the urgency of transitioning towards decentralized renewable energy provision. Many European countries have tasked municipalities with driving this transition and the European Union has designated local energy communities to receive stronger support. Energy communities involve public, private or community actors in co-producing and distributing renewable energy. They are often praised for helping democratize, decentralize and socially embed the energy system, but remain constrained by economic and legal barriers. To what extent they can contribute to transforming the energy system thus depends on their ability to scale beyond their niche.This article identifies opportunities and challenges encountered by energy communities, especially regarding legislation, municipal governance, and stakeholder participation. Drawing on 'foundational economy' concepts, it explains to what extent energy communities are governed and scaled by public, private or community actors, and discusses the transferability, social cohesion, and democratizing potential of energy innovations. The article compares qualitative findings from four energy community pilot projects in the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and the UK, based on interviews, observation and document analysis. It finds that while many cities are wellpositioned to launch energy communities, they lack the authority and means to scale up innovations, thus having to rely on other actors. While private companies are often hesitant about adopting innovations, municipal companies are more willing to do so, yet citizen participation is lacking across cases. Findings thus underline a need for legislation to remove barriers to energy innovation and enable democratic participation. |
| Keywords: | Public companies, Citizen participation, Local governance, Peer-to-peer exchange, Social innovation, Renewable energy, Energy communities |
| Date: | 2024–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05395002 |
| By: | Deol, Suhina |
| Keywords: | Institutional and Behavioral Economics, Farm Management |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343721 |
| By: | Baptiste Rigaux; Sam Hamels; Marten Ovaere (-) |
| Abstract: | We study household acceptance of flexibility contracts for electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps (HPs), two key technologies for the energy transition. Using a survey and choice experiment with around 3, 000 households, we analyze how contract design—particularly comfort limits such as indoor temperature or driving range— affects both the decision to participate and the flexibility households are willing to supply at different levels of remuneration. Around 70% of households in our sample are willing to participate. Discomfort affects utility nonlinearly for EVs: remaining range is valued at close to €0/km above 100 km but rises to €0.40/km below, while HP flexibility is valued at about €2 per degree of indoor temperature reduction. We derive conditions under which flexibility contracts can achieve cost-effectiveness while remaining acceptable to households. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest potential load reductions of up to 300 MW/event from HPs and 800 MW/event from EVs per million units. |
| Keywords: | Electricity Demand; Choice Experiment; Preferences; Thermal comfort; Range anxiety; Heat pump; Electric vehicle |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rug:rugwps:25/1130 |
| By: | Li, Yanning PhD; Jenn, Alan PhD |
| Abstract: | The transition to a decarbonized energy system is creating significant changes in the electricity distribution grid, particularly with the rapid uptake of electric vehicles (EVs). This study explores the equity implications of these changes by analyzing needed distribution grid upgrades across various communities in California. Utilizing real-world distribution grid data and detailed simulations of light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty EV charging behavior, we assess the spatial disparities in grid resource upgrade needs and utilization. Our findings show that by 2035, with the growth in EV charging demand, high-density residential areas are expected to have a higher fraction of feeders (neighborhood electric lines and transformers) that will need an upgrade. Additionally, communities with higher CalEnviroScreen scores (indicating greater pollution and socioeconomic burdens) generally exhibit lower EV adoption rates and are expected to have a higher share of feeders that will need to be upgraded, though with less extensive upgrades on average. Despite differences in capacity upgrade needs among different communities, the costs versus benefits from the upgraded distribution grid resources is expected to be quite proportional among different communities. While the top 20% disadvantaged communities utilize grid resources less than other communities due to their lower charging demand, the infrastructure upgrade costs in these communities are also lower. |
| Keywords: | Engineering, Electric vehicles, Electric vehicle charging, Electrical grids, Electric power transmission, Underserved communities, Transportation equity |
| Date: | 2025–12–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cdl:itsdav:qt0wc135vt |
| By: | Basile Michel (PLACES - EA 4113 - PLACES - Laboratoire de géographie et d'aménagement - CY - CY Cergy Paris Université, ESO - Espaces et Sociétés - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UM - Le Mans Université - UA - Université d'Angers - UR2 - Université de Rennes 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Nantes Univ - IGARUN - Institut de Géographie et d'Aménagement Régional de l'Université de Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Humanités - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement) |
| Abstract: | Malgré la multiplication récente d'initiatives « vertes », le secteur musical reste pour l'instant imbriqué dans la société capitaliste et mondialisée qui cause d'importantes dégradations socio-environnementales. Éclairant les enjeux écologiques dans la musique, cet article interroge une autre voie, pour repenser de façon systémique le paradigme insoutenable, et pourtant dominant, du star-système. L'analyse de deux exemples – le festival La P'Art Belle et le groupe Aïla (France) – montre que des alternatives sont possibles, portées par des acteurs et actrices de la musique qui s'engagent dans une démarche écologique transversale de décroissance, de changement d'échelle et d'ancrage local. Malgré certaines limites, ces expérimentations contribuent, par leur empreinte territoriale, à la vitalité culturelle, à la cohésion sociale et à la transformation écologique des territoires. |
| Keywords: | territory, star system, degrowth, local anchoring, music indutries, music, ecology, musique, écologie, territoire, décroissance, ancrage local, star-système |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05396298 |
| By: | Karagul, Nihan |
| Abstract: | Natural disasters span political boundaries, yet their devastating impacts vary widely across political jurisdictions. I argue that this is because of the differences in political incentives to uphold regulations concerning disaster preparedness. Turkey’s 2023 earthquake provides a rare empirical window to observe the cumulative effects of otherwise hidden political incentives. Leveraging the quasi-random shock of the earthquake, I employ a spatial regression discontinuity design along municipal boundaries in the earthquake region. I treat long-term party rule as the treatment and neighborhood-level destruction as the outcome. The analysis shows that neighborhoods governed by the same municipal party for more than 25 years experienced approximately 20\% less destruction than their adjacent, politically contested counterparts. These findings translate into substantially lower exposure of hundreds of residents to known disaster risks. The results demonstrate that electoral competition without institutional brakes can deteriorate long-term policy outcomes. My paper underscores the importance of sharing accountability with technocratic oversight in policy areas requiring sustained infrastructural investment, such as disaster preparedness. |
| Date: | 2025–12–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:698w3_v1 |
| By: | Paras Kharel (South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment) |
| Abstract: | This paper describes how a shifting world order-propelled by a relocation of the centre of economic gravity to the East-legacy thinking and geopolitics impinge on the development agenda and discourse at global and regional levels. Paying special attention to trade and industrialization aspects of development, and providing examples and cases, including those from South Asia, it flags the challenges that relatively small and weak economies face in pursuing their development aspirations in geopolitically charged times. Also woven into the analysis are the constraints and dilemmas facing the social science research community in such countries. |
| Keywords: | Geopolitics; global south; democracy; trade policy; industrial policy; climate policy; policy space |
| JEL: | B00 F13 F15 F18 F50 F52 F53 F55 O25 |
| Date: | 2025–07 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:saw:rpaper:rp/25/03 |
| By: | Fekria Belhouichet; Guglielmo Maria Caporale; Luis Alberiko Gil-Alana |
| Abstract: | This study examines the contemporaneous and lagged connectedness between the daily returns of AI and robotics-related assets, a global stock market index, commodity prices (gold and Brent crude oil), cryptocurrencies, and a carbon index over the period from 3 January 2023 to 30 September 2025, against a backdrop of persistent geopolitical tensions, using the innovative R² connectedness method developed by Balli et al. (2023). The results reveal that contemporaneous effects predominate over lagged ones. Furthermore, AI and robotics-related assets behave primarily as net emitters of shocks, as does the MSCI World Index, which exerts positive contagion effects and plays a central role in risk transmission. By constrast, gold and Brent crude oil act as net receivers of shocks, which in the case of the former reflects its role as a safe-haven asset. Cryptocurrencies instead exhibit heterogeneous dynamics : Cardano (ADA) acts as a net transmitter of shocks, while Bitcoin (BTC) and Stellar (XLM) behave more as receivers, contributing to market stability. Finally, the CO₂ index displays net negative connectedness, which confirm its role as a receiver of shocks. These findings provide useful information to investors and portfolio managers for risk diversification purposes and to policy-makers for ensuring financial stabilily, especially during periods of market turbulence. |
| Keywords: | assets returns, CO2 emissions, contemporaneous and lagged R2 connectedness |
| JEL: | C32 G11 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_12333 |
| By: | Cain, Ashley R. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc00:265497 |
| By: | Stern, David I. |
| Abstract: | Hunt and Lynk (1993) demonstrate that the coefficients of the non-multiplicative terms of a multiplicative logarithmic function are dependent on the units used. I demonstrate that a unique very simple transformation circumvents this problem. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uyoarc:263917 |
| By: | Shivani, .; Das Banerjee, Anannya; Ramji, Aditya |
| Keywords: | Engineering, Social and Behavioral Sciences |
| Date: | 2025–12–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cdl:itsdav:qt3db4b4cv |
| By: | Contreras-Arámbula, Alexis; Gabini, Sebastián; Francisco Javier, Hernández-Ayón |
| Abstract: | Históricamente las métricas para medir el desempeño laboral se han enfocado en la productividad y eficiencia, ignorando indicadores asociados con el impacto ambiental y el bienestar social. Este artículo presenta el desarrollo de una escala para medir este constructo desde una perspectiva sostenible y se valida en el contexto de empleados en dependencias públicas. Se utilizó una metodología instrumental, cuantitativa y transversal. El proceso de validación incluyó un análisis factorial exploratorio (AFE) y un análisis factorial confirmatorio (AFC), así como la evaluación de la fiabilidad a través del Alfa de Cronbach. Los resultados indican que la escala es una herramienta confiable y válida para la evaluación del desempeño laboral individual sostenible en el sector público. Se discuten las limitaciones de la escala y se ofrecen recomendaciones. |
| Keywords: | Medición; Desempeño; Trabajo; Sostenibilidad; Sector Público; |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nmp:nuland:4435 |
| By: | Bopp, Judith |
| Abstract: | In times of exacerbating agro-food crises, understanding farming through its constituting interrelated factors is a key element of crisis mitigation. The mostly linear approaches such as represented in the current agricultural discourses and by the agricultural sciences fall short in explaining the real-life complexities and overlapping crises experienced by small-scale farmers. Based on my recent qualitative fieldwork in Thailand, this paper aims to picture the complexities within which households' farming practices operate, and how these arise from a web of socio-cultural, political, economic, and ecological factors. By pleading for relational approaches to farming such as those acknowledging its immanent human-ecology interaction, this paper suggests a novel "health-nutrition-ecology" nexus to guide enquiry into the intimate relations between ecology, livelihoods, and health and well-being. It is employed to gain understanding of small-farming households' situations, deep-rooted causes of these, and their resilience in facing crises. The paper further pleads for a shift in existing technocratic agricultural discourses towards their inclusiveness of real-world narratives by small-scale farmers. These narratives can deliver insights for policies that aim at actual transformations of crisis-prone agro-food systems and could benefit both farmer livelihoods and farm ecologies. |
| Date: | 2025–12–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:njktf_v1 |
| By: | Hunter, Leon J. |
| Abstract: | In deciding on a strategy and programme of rationalization of Caribbean agriculture, decision-makers are faced with choosing between various alternative investment projects. Identification of investment possibilities play a vital role in the direction of rationalization. This paper is designed to provide the foundation on which a policy regarding the sugar Industry could be built. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:carc73:264356 |
| By: | E. C. Garrido-Merch\'an; S. Mora-Figueroa; M. Coronado-Vaca |
| Abstract: | DRL agents circumvent the issue of classic models in the sense that they do not make assumptions like the financial returns being normally distributed and are able to deal with any information like the ESG score if they are configured to gain a reward that makes an objective better. However, the performance of DRL agents has high variability and it is very sensible to the value of their hyperparameters. Bayesian optimization is a class of methods that are suited to the optimization of black-box functions, that is, functions whose analytical expression is unknown, are noisy and expensive to evaluate. The hyperparameter tuning problem of DRL algorithms perfectly suits this scenario. As training an agent just for one objective is a very expensive period, requiring millions of timesteps, instead of optimizing an objective being a mixture of a risk-performance metric and an ESG metric, we choose to separate the objective and solve the multi-objective scenario to obtain an optimal Pareto set of portfolios representing the best tradeoff between the Sharpe ratio and the ESG mean score of the portfolio and leaving to the investor the choice of the final portfolio. We conducted our experiments using environments encoded within the OpenAI Gym, adapted from the FinRL platform. The experiments are carried out in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and the NASDAQ markets in terms of the Sharpe ratio achieved by the agent and the mean ESG score of the portfolio. We compare the performance of the obtained Pareto sets in hypervolume terms illustrating how portfolios are the best trade-off between the Sharpe ratio and mean ESG score. Also, we show the usefulness of our proposed methodology by comparing the obtained hypervolume with one achieved by a Random Search methodology on the DRL hyperparameter space. |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2512.14992 |
| By: | Stern, David I. |
| Abstract: | There has been much debate about the contribution of the mining sector to economic development in developing countries, though multi-country empirical studies have been very limited. Vector-autoregression models are used to determine the contribution of the mining sector to economic development in nineteen developing countries. Impulse response functions estimate the multiplier of mining output on non-mining GDP, net foreign factor payments, imports, manufactured capital, and human capital. The results indicate that in the majority of countries, the mining sector contributes little or nothing to GNP and factor accumulation. In a few countries, however, mining does contribute to economic development. |
| Keywords: | Environmental Economics and Policy |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:uyoarc:263919 |
| By: | Billerbeck, Anna; Hoffmann, Jakob (LMU Munich); Fritz, Markus |
| Abstract: | The fate of the energy transition hinges not only on the existence of well-crafted policies, but also on their successful implementation, oftentimes by conglomerates of local actors. Usually involving both public and private parties without clear hierarchies, local implementation of policy is a process of multi-stakeholder governance and often characterized by difficult collective decision-making due to different perceptions of challenges and priorities. A good example of this process is energy and heat planning, which involves several local stakeholders with different hierarchical structures. In this paper, we study the evaluation of challenges and success factors among municipalities and utilities in the context of heat planning in Germany. Based on a survey of 267 communal stakeholders, we find an effect of inversion in juxtaposing importance and difficulty ratings: While municipalities perceive factors such as effective communication, clearly defined responsibilities and concrete measures and projects as more important than their utility counterparts, utilities see them as more challenging. Such perceptual inversion has the potential to complicate collective goal-setting and decision-making and thus can slow down energy transition governance processes. |
| Date: | 2025–12–08 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:pagvs_v1 |
| By: | Vaiknoras, Kate A. |
| Keywords: | Production Economics, Productivity Analysis, Crop Production/Industries |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea24:343609 |
| By: | Huber, Robert; Ammann, Sara; Bethwell, Claudia; Carlin, Caitriona; Fahrni, Viviane; Fürholz, Andrea; Karner, Katrin; Hussain, Raja Imran; Kindermann, Gesche; Suškevičs, Monika |
| Abstract: | We present a rigorously constructed framework to inform the development of evaluative crite-ria for existing knowledge on collective agri-environmental schemes supporting landscape stewardship in agriculture. It is applied in a systematic review of 96 cases across OECD coun-tries, sourced from 73 peer-reviewed articles. The review connects the analytical power of arti-ficial intelligence in concert with expert domain knowledge. The synthesis of both enables a precise and comprehensive examination of policy and implementation dimensions, yielding critical insights into the schemes’ designs and functioning, and their broader applicability. We find considerable heterogeneity among schemes indicating flexibility for decision-makers to adapt schemes to specific environmental targets at local scale, but that there is still significant room to enhance the role of farmers as key players in collective agri-environmental schemes. By integrating human expertise with the capabilities of large language models, our approach exemplifies how to balance and mitigate the limitations of each, enhancing both the reliability and transparency of the review process. |
| Date: | 2025–12–10 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:pfhk5_v1 |
| By: | Kim, Helena Hahyoon |
| Abstract: | This paper explores the historical development and social implications of farming innovations introduced through the K-Ricebelt initiative in Africa—a collaborative agricultural project spearheaded by South Korea to enhance rice production across several African nations. By tracing the evolution of rice farming techniques from traditional subsistence methods to modern technological practices, the study examines how these innovations have shaped rural livelihoods, economic structures, and community dynamics. Drawing on case studies from Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya, it analyzes the socio-economic outcomes of increased yields, mechanized farming, and agricultural training programs, with particular attention to income distribution, gender roles, and rural employment. While the K-Ricebelt has contributed to improved food security and the transfer of agricultural knowledge, this paper also addresses critiques concerning environmental sustainability and unequal access to resources. Ultimately, the research offers a nuanced perspective on how external agricultural interventions can reshape local societies, emphasizing the need for context-sensitive and inclusive innovation strategies in development efforts. |
| Date: | 2026–01–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:dbsqk_v1 |
| By: | Anne Bartel-Radic (CERAG - Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes, IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes); Corentin Gariel (EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management, CERAG - Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes); Thomas Reverdy (PACTE - Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes) |
| Abstract: | This chapter examines how multinational corporations (MNCs) collectively address plastic pollution in emerging economies through meta-organizations. While existing literature highlights the limitations of voluntary corporate action, we analyse how MNCs leverage collective platforms to promote Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and influence regulatory processes. Drawing on five case studies from West Africa and Southeast Asia, we show that subsidiaries of MNCs create meta-organizations that combine corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts with political action. At the inter-organizational level, these platforms support a specific form of mandatory regulation that we define as "hybrid." Their effectiveness is contingent on national political dynamics and the involvement of international organizations. We contribute to the literature on political CSR, meta-organizations, and grand challenges by highlighting how firms pursue regulatory solutions through collective structures under conditions of weak governance. |
| Keywords: | Political CSR, Plastic pollution, MNC, Meta-organization, Emerging economies |
| Date: | 2026–05–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:gemptp:hal-05418625 |
| By: | Policastro, Gianfranco; Padilla, Noelia Aymara; Rigonat, María Cecilia |
| Abstract: | La ciudad de Mar del Plata (partido de General Pueyrredon), principal balneario marítimo argentino, se encuentra asentada en un área caracterizada por las últimas estribaciones del sistema de Tandilia sobre el cual se desarrolla una red hídrica superficial que desagua en el mar. La misma ha sido intervenida ante la expansión de la urbanización, resultando en una incesante impermeabilización del suelo, acelerando la escorrentía e inhibiendo la infiltración. La investigación en curso constituye un proyecto de investigación de las cátedras del área de Geografía Física (Departamento de Geografía - Fac. Humanidades-UNMdP). Se ha tomado como recorte territorial un sector de la cuenca del arroyo Corrientes ubicado en el sector sur del partido, por fuera del ejido urbano. Su fuente de alimentación es principalmente de tipo pluvial -y en menor medida subterránea-, consta de dos tributarios principales uno proveniente del norte (ubicado en proximidades del Bosque Peralta Ramos) y otro del sur (cercano al barrio Chapadmalal y Laguna de Ponce). El curso principal atraviesa los barrios San Jacinto y Alfar, y finalmente, desemboca en el ambiente costero marítimo a 1 km al sur de la rotonda del Faro Punta Mogotes. El área está en proceso de urbanización debido al crecimiento de la ciudad de Mar del Plata. Se hipotetiza que las intervenciones hídricas -asociadas al crecimiento urbano para vivienda turística y de residencia permanente- responden a una óptica cortoplacista centrada en solucionar las demandas inmediatas sin considerar un análisis integral de la cuenca. El enfoque teórico está centrado en la consideración del espacio geográfico como espacio social, dinámico e histórico. En este marco de análisis las intervenciones al medio natural responden a sucesivos procesos de (re) (des) valorización del territorio según los circunstanciales intereses económicos y políticos que responden al modelo capitalista. Se ha tomado como objetivo general, analizar las problemáticas ambientales e intervenciones hídricas que se generan en torno al crecimiento urbano en la ribera del arroyo Corrientes en el tramo que discurre por los barrios San Jacinto y Alfar como una primera etapa del trabajo. La investigación se enfoca en una metodología principalmente cualitativa basada en tareas de observación e interpretación, así como en las denuncias de los vecinos recolectadas a partir de distintos medios de información y/o comunicación y la realización de entrevistas a informantes calificados, tomando como período de análisis preliminar los últimos 20 años. Los principales obstáculos para el desarrollo del trabajo se derivan de la dispersión de la información y la falta de sistematización de la misma. Los resultados son incipientes, ya que se trata de una investigación en proceso. Cabe considerar que los barrios ubicados sobre la cuenca del Arroyo Corrientes fueron loteados hacia mediados del siglo XX orientados en principio a la vivienda turística pero actualmente captan una porción creciente de residencia permanente, potenciada por la difusión de algunos planes de viviendas, tales como el plan PRO.CRE.AR. Se han detectado algunas problemáticas que permiten reconocer una temprana intervención hídrica, dado que los primeros loteos implicaron el desecamiento y rellenado de un pequeño humedal que se encontraba en el curso inferior del arroyo Corrientes. Las inundaciones en momento de precipitaciones intensas y la contaminación por aguas residuales constituyen las principales demandas de la sociedad. Ante esta situación las respuestas han sido la rectificación del curso, dragado y limpieza en forma puntual y esporádica. Se espera avanzar en la tipificación de las problemáticas socioambientales e identificar su vinculación con las intervenciones hídricas y las respuestas ante las demandas sociales, para finalmente ponderar en qué medida se ha considerado el concepto de cuenca desde una óptica integral. |
| Keywords: | Problemas Ambientales; Arroyos; Desarrollo Urbano; Partido de General Pueyrredon; |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nmp:nuland:4443 |
| By: | Wang, Yitian (Department of Economics, Monash University, Clayton, Australia); Vespignani, Joaquin (Tasmanian School of Business & Economics, University of Tasmania); Smyth, Russell (Department of Economics, Monash University, Clayton, Australia) |
| Abstract: | Accelerating transport electrification is vital for net-zero goals, yet remains hindered by slow, uncertain development of battery minerals. We show how non-technical risk, such as policy, regulatory, social, and geopolitical risk, inflate capital costs, delay greenfield supply, and heighten price volatility for lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, graphite, and copper. Combining Fraser Institute investment scores with reserve shares of these critical minerals, we construct dynamic, mineral-specific risk premiums, derive an optimal stockpiling rule balancing risk and storage costs and introduce a distance-to-iso-cost map comparing recycling and stockpiling strategies. Our framework suggests that in 2040 recycling-led stabilization will be the optimal strategy for mitigating non-technical risk for Japan and Korea, strategic stockpiling will be the optimal strategy for China and the United States, and mixed outcomes for Europe. The method that we propose provides a tractable and updateable toolkit for deciding optimal stockpiles and prioritising recycling where it is most cost-effective. |
| Keywords: | economics; finance; energy economics |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tas:wpaper:60464201 |
| By: | Gorosito, Silvina Marcela |
| Abstract: | La Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata fue sede de las cuadragésimas sexta edición de las Jornadas Universitarias de Contabilidad, que se llevaron a cabo en la ciudad de Mar del Plata, los días miércoles 5, jueves 6 y viernes 7 de noviembre de 2025, bajo el lema "Contabilidad ambiental: midiendo el impacto, construyendo el futuro". Estas Jornadas constituyeron un espacio consolidado para el debate, la producción y el intercambio académico en torno a los desafíos actuales de la contabilidad en sus múltiples dimensiones. |
| Keywords: | Contabilidad Ambiental; Contabilidad Social; Normas Contables; Gestión Contable; |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nmp:nuland:4436 |
| By: | Munthali, Maggie G.; Chilora, Lemekezani; Nyirenda, Zephania; Saonga, Dinah; Wineman, Ayala; Muyanga, Milu |
| Abstract: | Key Messages • Results from the MwAPATA Aquaculture Survey show that 87% of small-scale fish farms in Malawi are individually owned, and most fish farming households are male headed (86%). • Most farms (95%) use low-technology earthen ponds, which are susceptible to floods, erosion, and natural predators. • Nearly all farms (99.8%) are stocked with mixed-sex fingerlings, which are associated with uncontrolled reproduction, low survival rates, overcrowding, and stunted growth. • It is encouraging that many farms apply organic fertilizers (87%) and inorganic fertilizers (49.4%). However, small-scale fish farming in Malawi is characterized by limited usage of other high-quality inputs, such as commercial feed (floating feed), which constrains the productivity of the sector. • Nevertheless, small-scale aquaculture has potential to improve farmersʼ livelihoods and welfare through economic and dietary diversification. • Survey results point to a need to disseminate modern fish farming practices and technologies; promote the active participation of youths and women; organize fish farmers into groups and strengthen existing farmersʼ associations; and incentivize private sector investment, particularly in the production of floating fish feed. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Food Security and Poverty, International Development |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:maappb:338593 |
| By: | Stefano Carattini; Wade Davis; Béla Figge; Anton Heimerdinger |
| Abstract: | Rooftop solar photovoltaic mandates are becoming a popular policy across Europe and the United States. In this paper, we leverage the frontrunner experience of California to examine their economics. First, we evaluate the private payoffs of solar adoption for residential new construction. To do so, we assemble a rich dataset of new construction building projects and parameterize an engineering model to provide estimates of private payoffs across our sample. Second, we evaluate the hypothesis of what we call a "solar gap'' by comparing the cost-effectiveness estimates from the engineering model to observed builder decisions. We find substantial variation in the cost-effectiveness of solar across building locations and characteristics, though the estimated private payoffs are generally positive across a robust variety of model parameterizations and financial assumptions. We observe that the majority of buildings in our data do not adopt solar despite engineering estimates suggesting opportunities for positive payoffs. Relatedly, we find that payoffs explain little of the variation in solar adoption decisions. Lastly, we estimate the effectiveness of both San Francisco's citywide solar mandate and California's statewide mandate. Across a variety of empirical approaches, we find that both the citywide and statewide mandates increased solar adoption. However, new construction solar adoption remains below 100 percent. We discuss compliance accordingly. |
| Keywords: | solar photovoltaic, building codes, regulation, engineering models |
| JEL: | H70 Q42 Q48 |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_12359 |
| By: | International Monetary Fund |
| Abstract: | Sri Lanka was hit by catastrophic Cyclone Ditwah on November 28, claiming more than 600 lives as of December 6 and affecting millions more. Severe flooding and landslides displaced over 100, 000 people and caused extensive destruction of houses, roads, bridges, rail lines, buildings including schools and hospitals, and agricultural land nationwide. The natural disaster creates urgent humanitarian and reconstruction needs, leading to acute balance-of-payments (BOP) pressures. The cyclone hit as Sri Lanka is emerging from a deep economic crisis and the IMF-supported reform program under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) begins to bear fruit. |
| Date: | 2025–12–19 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:imf:imfscr:2025/339 |
| By: | Amrita Goldar (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)); Kumar Abhishek; Sunishtha Yadav |
| Abstract: | Amid rising global demand and tightened supply, scrap steel has become a critical input for India's steel sector, with imports accounting for nearly 30 percent of domestic scrap consumption and total iron and steel imports. As key supplier countries increasingly impose export restrictions, India faces heightened exposure to supply disruptions. This study assesses the potential macroeconomic impacts of trade restrictions on India's steel industry and broader economy. Using ICRIER's Samriddhi Global Trade Model, built on the GTAP-Circular Economy (GTAP-CE) Version 11 and GTAP-Power framework, we analyse the structural vulnerabilities for countries dependent on imports and quantify the impact posed by increasing trade protectionism. Results highlight that an export ban scenario leads to an 8 percent decline in India's scrap steel imports, while triggering a 14 percent increase in the output of the domestic recycling industry. These findings further emphasize the strategic urgency of scaling up domestic recycling capacity as a long-term solution to meet rising demands and build domestic resilience. |
| Keywords: | International Trade, Industrial Decarbonization, Scrap Steel, Circular Economy, icrier |
| Date: | 2025–09 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bdc:ppaper:48 |
| By: | Moradipoor, Sorour; Jalaee, Seyed Abdolmajid |
| Abstract: | This paper develops a non-cooperative game-theoretic model to analyze strategic natural gas export decisions under binding geopolitical and institutional constraints, focusing on Iran–Qatar interaction in the European market. Export strategies are defined as empirically grounded regimes rather than continuous quantities, capturing observed export suspensions and partial utilization under sanctions and infrastructural frictions. The model incorporates quantity-dependent production and transportation costs as well as explicit geopolitical constraint penalties. Scenario-based payoff matrices calibrated to post-2022 market conditions reveal that rising constraint costs can render high-export strategies unprofitable even at elevated gas prices. The analysis identifies an asymmetric Nash equilibrium in which Qatar maintains high exports while Iran optimally reduces or suspends exports. These results highlight that institutional access and geopolitical frictions, rather than resource endowments alone, are central determinants of export behavior and European energy security in fragmented gas markets. Keywords: Geopolitical constraints; Natural gas exports; Game theory; European gas market; Iran–Qatar interaction; Energy security. |
| Date: | 2025–12–27 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:awh2s_v1 |