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Author(s):  
Sylvie Geisendorf ◽  
Christian Klippert

AbstractThe paper proposes an agent-based evolutionary ecological-economic model that captures the link between the economy and the ecosystem in a more inclusive way than standard economic optimization models do. We argue that an evolutionary approach is required to understand the integrated dynamics of both systems, i.e. micro–macro feedbacks. In the paper, we illustrate that claim by analyzing the non-triviality of finding a sustainability policy mix as a use case for such a coupled system. The model has three characteristics distinguishing it from traditional environmental and resource economic models: (1) it implements a multi-dimensional link between the economic and the ecological system, considering side effects of production, and thus combines the analyses of environmental and resource economics; (2) following literature from biology, it uses a discrete time approach for the biological resource allowing for the whole range of stability regimes instead of artificially stabilizing the system, and (3) it links this resource system to an evolving, agent-based economy (on the basis of a Nelson-Winter model) with bounded rational decision makers instead of the standard optimization model. The policy case illustrates the relevance of the proposed integrated assessment as it delivers some surprising results on the effects of combined and consecutively introduced policies that would go unnoticed in standard models.


2022 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 182-199
Author(s):  
G. Petherbridge ◽  
M. Kh. Rabadanov ◽  
A. A. Gadzhiev ◽  
D. M. Saipov ◽  
A. A. Teymurov ◽  
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2022 ◽  
Vol 301 ◽  
pp. 113776
Author(s):  
Gabriel Granco ◽  
Marcellus Caldas ◽  
Jason Bergtold ◽  
Jessica L. Heier Stamm ◽  
Martha Mather ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soumyajit Bhar ◽  
Chirag Dhara

A major challenge for humanity today is to articulate a developmental vision that can achieve a reasonable quality of life for the global population of over 7 billion without breaching planetary boundaries. The Human Development Index (HDI) (UNDP 2010), which externalizes the planetary pressures of economic growth, promotes misguided development models since countries scoring highest on HDI have transgressed multiple planetary boundaries (O’Neill et al. 2018). The question is whether templates of development exist among the fraternity of nations that may be sustainably scaled to the global population. To study this question, we construct a new conceptual framework foregrounding the principles of equity, historic responsibility, and planetary boundaries. We propose a new environmentally-driven measure of human development – called the eHDI – that internalizes the climate and ecological pressures of economic growth. Analysis of the developmental trajectories of countries over the past three decades based on the eHDI reveals profound insights. We identify Panama, Costa Rica, Albania, Sri Lanka, and Georgia as the top examplar models that can provide reasonably high levels of human development to the entire global population with low environmental pressures. However, a conservative extrapolation of current trends indicates that only the Sri Lankan and Costa Rican trajectories may remain (largely) within planetary boundaries by 2050. Our results, therefore, foreground these two countries as the ones that merit the most focus in sustainability policy studies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 11657
Author(s):  
Stanislav Shmelev ◽  
Harrison Roger Brook

When formulating economic development strategies, the environment and society must be considered to preserve well-being. This paper proposes a comparative sustainability assessment method using environmentally extended input-output analysis and multi-criteria decision aid. Using symmetric input-output tables and sectoral CO2 emissions and employment data for six countries, linkage coefficients are calculated for 163 sectors in each country. Multi-criteria decision aid tool, ELECTRE III, is used to derive outranking relationships among each country’s sectors using these coefficients as criteria, resulting in a hierarchy of sectors ordered by sustainability. Sectors that frequently appear at the top of the six hierarchies included education, health care, construction, and financial intermediation. China’s results differ significantly because of its concentration of economic activity on the primary/secondary sectors. The results can enable identification of key intervention pathways along which sustainable development could be stimulated. Country-specific recommendations and reflections on economic and sustainability policy initiatives are discussed.


2021 ◽  
pp. 146954052110396
Author(s):  
Torik Holmes ◽  
Carolynne Lord ◽  
Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world placed communities under ‘lockdown’. Various practices of consumption were uprooted from their instituted settings and re-rooted in homes. This unprecedented reorganisation of normality resulted in increased instances of domestic consumption as practices occurring in offices, gyms and eateries were forced into homes, demanding the acquisition of materials and altering expectations of what homes are for. This article contributes to literature on COVID-19 and practice-based consumption research by complicating optimistic narratives about the potential for this disruption to downsize the consumer economy. Combining qualitative household interviews, with secondary data about wider trends, and historical reflection on changes in the meaning of the ‘home’ in the UK, we reveal how the re-rooting of instituted practices structures material acquisition and spikes desire for more domestic space. Recognising that professional practices and institutions have taken on increasing significance for domestic consumption, with stay-at-home orders blurring boundaries between home, work and leisure, we conclude by arguing that future research and sustainability policy should attend more to the institutional qualities of practices.


2021 ◽  
pp. 101852912110079
Author(s):  
Onwuka Ifeanyi Onuka

Microcredit is a financial service whose importance is often understated. When lack of access to microcredit is exacerbated by a public health emergency such as the COVID-19 pandemic, its real significance as an essential service in poverty alleviation becomes more apparent. The outbreak and spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has led to dramatic transformations of every sector of the Nigerian society including microcredit delivery system, where formal and informal actors co-exist often in an uneasy relationship. Unfortunately, strategies for inclusive microcredit delivery before and during the COVID-19 pandemic are lacking in Nigeria, fuelling the further exclusion of informal sector in microcredit governance and policy process in Nigeria. The paper reviews the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria and identifies policy gaps in microcredit delivery and governance mechanism. The study also highlights the linkages between COVID-19 and microcredit in poverty alleviation with a view to catalysing increased and inclusive access to microcredit and sustainability policy in Nigeria. It is argued that acknowledging the role of microcredit in informal economy and poverty alleviation is the critical first step towards framing a sustainable microcredit policy in which primary stakeholders are involved.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8125
Author(s):  
Alessio Carrozzo Magli ◽  
Pompeo Della Posta ◽  
Piero Manfredi

In the current battle for sustainability and climate, understanding the nature of sustainability games is of paramount importance, especially to inform appropriate policy actions to contrast the harmful effects of global climate change. Relatedly, there is no consensus in the literature on the proper game-theoretic representation of the so-called Tragedy of the Commons. A number of contributions have questioned the prisoner’s dilemma as an appropriate framework. In this work, we provide a representation that reconciles these two positions, confirming the ultimate nature of the Tragedy as a prisoner’s dilemma, rather than a coordination issue, and discuss the ensuing implications for sustainability policy interventions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 8050
Author(s):  
João Gomes Ferreira ◽  
Mário de Matos ◽  
Hugo Silva ◽  
Afonso Franca ◽  
Pedro Duarte

This paper addresses the research problem of determining if relevant energy and water savings may be obtained in university campuses without significant investments, based mainly on “surgical” technical and organizational measures. With the creation of the “Sustainable Campus” project, in 2011, IST has been implementing a sustainability policy. A resource management policy has been accompanied by a permanent project team, which proposes the implementation of technical measures. This activity is performed in articulation with the operational management through integrated actions in a collective effort to reduce consumption. Without significant investments, the energy-saving measures implemented have consistently achieved a value of more than 20% in energy consumption when compared to the average annual consumption values of the past decade. Additionally, in 2018, water consumption was 58% lower than the reference baseline value of 2011. In 2018, specific projects were implemented in the area of sustainable mobility, with a focus on smooth mobility and sharing. This paper presents the “Sustainable Campus” project, its operational lines, and the results achieved in energy and water consumption and sustainable mobility.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Li ◽  
Qing Y. Xiong

As a sustainability policy in emerging markets, the dual-credit policy was implemented in China to promote automakers expanding investment in research and development, and ultimately achieve the energy-saving and emission-reduction goals of the auto industry. We regard the dual-credit policy as a quasi-natural experiment, use the difference-in-difference model to divide Chinese automakers into an experimental group (the passenger vehicle group) and a control group (the commercial vehicle group), and analyze the impacts of the dual-credit policy in the brewing period (2014–2016) and the implementation period on the scale, intensity, and structure of research and development investment. We found that the dual-credit policy has significantly promoted the research and development investment of automakers, and the heterogeneity of automakers has a moderating effect on the policy effects. In addition, we also found that there are certain differences in the significance and stability of the effects of the dual-credit policy during the brewing period and the implementation period. Finally, we presented some management insights into the response to the dual-credit policy.


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