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Production-based pollution versus deforestation: optimal policy with state-independent and-dependent environmental absorption efficiency restoration process
- Source :
- Annals of Operations Research, Annals of Operations Research, Springer Verlag, 2020, 292 (1), ⟨10.1007/s10479-020-03638-0⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- 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.
- Subjects :
- 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
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15729338 and 02545330
- Volume :
- 292
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annals of Operations Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d8961f3d1fbbf67f41c7eb83f637e151