Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Moser, Elke (Editor), Semmler, Willi (Editor), Tragler, Gernot (Editor), Veliov, Vladimir M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance, 15
• Subjects: Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Calculus of variations.; Environmental sciences.; Economic theory.; Environmental economics.; Economics.; Environmental Economics.; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization.; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

The book presents new developments in the dynamic modeling and optimization methods in environmental economics and provides a huge range of applications dealing with the economics of natural resources, the impacts of climate change and of environmental pollution, and respective policy measures. The...

Table of Contents:

• Interactions between Economy and Climate: Climate Change and Technical Progress: Impact of Informational Constraints
• Environmental Policy in a Dynamic Model with Heterogeneous Agents and Voting
• Optimal Environmental Policy in the Presence of Multiple Equilibria and Reversible Hysteresis
• Modeling the Dynamics of the Transition to a Green Economy
• One-Parameter GHG Emission Policy With R&D-Based Growth
• Pollution, Public Health Care, and Life Expectancy when Inequality Matters
• Uncertain Climate Policy and the Green Paradox
• Uniqueness Versus Indeterminacy in the Tragedy of the Commons - A "Geometric" Approach
• Optimal Extraction of Resources: Dynamic Behavior of Oil Importers and Exporters Under Uncertainty
• Robust Control of a Spatially Distributed Commercial Fishery
• On the Effect of Resource Exploitation on Growth: Domestic Innovation vs. Technological Diffusion Through Trade
• Forest Management and Biodiversity in Size-Structured Forests Under Climate Change
• Carbon Taxes and Comparison of Trading Regimes in Fossil Fuels
• Landowning, Status and Population Growth
• Optimal Harvesting of Size-Structured Biological Populations.