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1. Production-based pollution versus deforestation: optimal policy with state-independent and-dependent environmental absorption efficiency restoration process

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Marc Leandri, Eugene Khmelnitsky, Fouad El Ouardighi, ESSEC Business School [Cergy-Pontoise], Tel Aviv University [Tel Aviv], Centre d'études sur la mondialisation, les conflits, les territoires et les vulnérabilités (Cemotev), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Tel Aviv University, TAU, and The authors acknowledge helpful comments from one anonymous referee. This research was supported by ESSEC Business School (France) and Tel Aviv University (Israel). The first author dedicates this paper to the memory of Mohamed El Houari, a wonderful mentor and friend.

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Pollution, Natural resource economics, Process (engineering), media_common.quotation_subject, 0211 other engineering and technologies, General Decision Sciences, Social Welfare, 02 engineering and technology, Management Science and Operations Research, History dependence, Deforestation, 11. Sustainability, Restoration process, Production (economics), 10. No inequality, Environmental absorption efficiency, media_common, 021103 operations research, [INFO.INFO-RO]Computer Science [cs]/Operations Research [cs.RO], 15. Life on land, 13. Climate action, Sustainability, Environmental science, Optimal pollution, Absorption efficiency
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International audience; An important yet largely unexamined issue is how the interaction between deforestation and pollution affects economic and environmental sustainability.This article seeks to bridge the gap by introducing a dynamic model of pollution accumulation where polluting emissions can be mitigated and the absorption efficiency of pollution sinks can be restored. We assume that emissions are due to a production activity, and we include deforestation both as an additional source of emissions and as a cause of the exhaustion of environmental absorption efficiency. To account for the fact that the switching of natural sinks to a pollution source can be either possible, and in such a case even reversible, or impossible, we consider that restoration efforts can be either independent from or dependent on environmental absorption efficiency, i.e., state-independent versus state-dependent restoration efforts. We determine (i) whether production or deforestation is the most detrimental from environmental and social welfare perspectives, and (ii) how state-dependent restoration process affects pollution accumulation and deforestation policies and the related environmental and social welfare consequences.

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2020
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2. Threshold regressions for the resource curse

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Nicolas Clootens, Djamel Kirat, Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques (AMSE), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orleans [UMR7322] (LEO), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université de Tours (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), This paper has been partly funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) under grants Labex VOLTAIRE (ANR-10-LABX-100-01) and ANR-17-EURE-0020, ANR-10-LABX-0100,VOLTAIRE,Geofluids and Volatil elements – Earth, Atmosphere, Interfaces – Resources and Environment(2010), ANR-17-EURE-0020,AMSE (EUR),Aix-Marseille School of Economics(2017), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orleans (LEO), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université de Tours-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR-10-LABX-100-01/10-LABX-0100,VOLTAIRE,Geofluids and Volatil elements – Earth, Atmosphere, Interfaces – Resources and Environment(2010), ANR: 17-EURE-0020,AMSE (EUR),Aix-Marseille School of Economics(2017), Lhuillier, Elisabeth, Laboratoires d'excellence - Geofluids and Volatil elements – Earth, Atmosphere, Interfaces – Resources and Environment - - VOLTAIRE2010 - ANR-10-LABX-0100 - LABX - VALID, Aix-Marseille School of Economics - - AMSE (EUR)2017 - ANR-17-EURE-0020 - EURE - VALID, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Tours-Université d'Orléans (UO)

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Economics and Econometrics, Resource (biology), Natural resource economics, growth, 05 social sciences, Linear model, Development, JEL: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth/O.O1 - Economic Development/O.O1.O13 - Agriculture • Natural Resources • Energy • Environment • Other Primary Products, [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, Natural resource, non-renewable resources, Resource curse, Abundance (ecology), 0502 economics and business, threshold regressions, Economics, JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q3 - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation/Q.Q3.Q33 - Resource Booms, JEL: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth/O.O1 - Economic Development/O.O1.O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development, 050202 agricultural economics & policy, 050207 economics, [SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, natural resources, Non-renewable resource, resource curse, General Environmental Science
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This paper analyzes the behavior of cross-country growth rates with respect to resource abundance and dependence. We reject the linear model that is commonly used in growth regressions in favor of a multiple-regime alternative. Using a formal sample-splitting method, we find that countries exhibit different behaviors with respect to natural resources depending on their initial level of development. In high-income countries, natural resources play only a minor role in explaining the differences in national growth rates. On the contrary, in low-income countries, abundance seems to be a blessing but dependence restricts growth.

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2020
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3. The role of non-natural capital in the co-production of marine ecosystem services

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Andrea Belgrano, Gonzalo Macho, Edna Cabecinha, Cristina Pita, Yajie Liu, Elena Ojea, Luís Outeiro, João Garcia Rodrigues, Sebastián Villasante, Amber Himes-Cornell, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela [Spain] (USC ), Universidade de Vigo, Aménagement des Usages des Ressources et des Espaces marins et littoraux - Centre de droit et d'économie de la mer (AMURE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Marine Sciences [Gothenburg], University of Gothenburg (GU), Norwegian University of Science and Technology [Trondheim] (NTNU), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro [Portugal] (UTAD), Universidade de Aveiro, LO acknowledges the financial support from Xunta de Galicia I2C program through the Postdoctoral Project ED481B 2014/051-0. EO acknowledges funding from EU H2020 ERC Starting Grant project CLOCK (grant 679812) and Xunta de Galicia (Axuda complementaria aos beneficiarios do programa StG do Consello Europeo de Investigación). CP would also like to acknowledge FCT/MEC national funds and FEDER co-funding, within the PT2020 partnership Agreement and Compete2020, for the financial support to CESAM (Grant No. UID/AMB/50017/2013). EC acknowledges the European Investment Funds by FEDER/COMPETE/POCI, under Project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006958 and National Funds by FCT, under the project UID/AGR/04033/2013, for the financial support to CITAB. SV, GM, and CP acknowledge the financial support from the ICES Science Fund project ‘Social transformations of marine social-ecological systems’. This paper is an outcome of the ICES Working Group Resilience and Marine Ecosystem Services (WGRMES) meeting held in Porto (Portugal) in June 2016. YJL acknowledges the Norwegian Research Council for partial funding through REGIMES project (project # 261809)., Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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0106 biological sciences, Natural resource economics, Fishing, 5312.01 Agricultura, Silvicultura, Pesca, 010501 environmental sciences, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 01 natural sciences, lcsh:TD1-1066, Ecosystem services, shellfisheries, Non-natural capital, Nonnatural capital, lcsh:HD101-1395.5, Natural capital, Small-scale fisheries management, Marine ecosystem, 14. Life underwater, lcsh:Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering, Recreation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Shellfisheries, Small-scale fisheries, Ecology, Marine ecosystem services, business.industry, Social-ecological systems, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, small-scale fisheries, Provisioning, 15. Life on land, co-production, Co-production, 2510.92 Acuicultura Marina, lcsh:Land use, Agriculture, nonnatural capital, Capital (economics), [SDE]Environmental Sciences, Business, social-ecological systemsnatural capital
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16 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables.-- This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, A growing concern is arising to recognize that ecosystem services (ES) production often requires the integration of non-natural capital with natural capital in a process known as coproduction. Several studies explore co-production in different terrestrial ecosystems, such as agriculture or water delivery, but less attention has been paid to marine ecosystems. Coastal activities such as aquaculture, shellfish harvesting, and small-scale fishing deliver important benefits for seafood provision, but are also inextricably linked to cultural and recreational ES. The degree to which co-production can determine the provision of ES in marine systems has yet not been explored. This paper addresses this key topic with an exploratory analysis of case studies where marine ES are co-produced. We look at five small-scale fisheries that range from intensive semi-aquaculture in Galicia (Spain), to wild harvesting in Northern Portugal, and discuss to what extent co-production influences ES delivery. We find that a direct relationship exists between co-production level and ES delivery in the case of provisioning ES (e.g., fish harvest), but not necessarily in the delivery of other ES. We also find that management practices and property regimes may be affecting trade-offs between co-production and ES, LO acknowledges the financial support from Xunta de Galicia I2C program through the Postdoctoral Project ED481B 2014/051-0. EO acknowledges funding from EU H2020 ERC Starting Grant project CLOCK (grant 679812) and Xunta de Galicia (Axuda complementaria aos beneficiarios do programa StG do Consello Europeo de Investigación). CP would also like to acknowledge FCT/ MEC national funds and FEDER co-funding, within the PT2020 partnership Agreement and Compete2020, for the financial support to CESAM (Grant No. UID/AMB/50017/ 2013). EC acknowledges the European Investment Funds by FEDER/COMPETE/POCI, under Project POCI-01- 0145-FEDER-006958 and National Funds by FCT, under the project UID/AGR/04033/2013, for the financial support to CITAB. SV, GM, and CP acknowledge the financial support from the ICES Science Fund project ‘Social transformations of marine social-ecological systems

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2017
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