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来源类型 | Article |
规范类型 | 其他 |
DOI | 10.1006/jema.1996.0083 |
Pollution control policies and natural resource dynamics: A theoretical analysis. | |
Rinaldi S; Sanderson WC; Gragnani A | |
发表日期 | 1996 |
出处 | Journal of Environmental Management 48 (4): 357-373 |
出版年 | 1996 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Policies for the management of natural resources and the resources themselves interact to form complex systems. In this paper, we present a highly simplified model that can be used to study the general features of those systems. The model has three state variables, the abundance of the resource, environmental pollution, and the capital devoted to pollution control. We analyse it graphically using the singular perturbation approach. Two modes of behavior are possible; stationary and cyclic. When the abundance of the resources varies cyclically, the length of the period of resource scarcity depends on population size, economic activity, pollution per unit of output, and policy constraints. We distinguish between two classes of policies, one in which decision-makers base their investments in pollution control capital on the abundance of the resource, and another in which those decisions depend on the amount of pollution. We show that policies based on the observation of pollution are safer than those based on resource abundance, because in the latter case, small changes in policy variables can lead much more easily to a collapse of the resource. Increases in population size, even when accompanied by an equiproportional increase in the pollution control budget can lead to a change from stationary to cyclic behavior, especially where policies are based on resource abundance. |
主题 | World Population (POP) |
关键词 | pollution control policies natural resource dynamics dynamic environmental systems |
URL | http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/12815/ |
来源智库 | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/127448 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rinaldi S,Sanderson WC,Gragnani A. Pollution control policies and natural resource dynamics: A theoretical analysis.. 1996. |
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