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Balance or synergies between environment and economy
- The UN sustainable development goals contain environmental, economic, and social objectives. They may only be reached, or at least it would be easier to reach them, if instead of a trade-off between these objectives that implies a need for balancing them, there are synergies to be reaped. This paper discusses how the structures of economic models typically used in policy analysis influence whether win-win strategies for the environment and the economy can be conceptualised and analysed. With a focus on climate policy modelling, the paper points out how, by construction, commonly used model structures find mitigation costs rather than benefits. This paper describes mechanisms that, when added to these model structures, can bring win- win options into a model's solution horizon, and which provide a spectrum of alternative modelling approaches that allow for the identification of such options.
Author details: | Sarah Wolf, Franziska Schütze, Carlo JaegerORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-436998 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-43699 |
ISSN: | 1867-5808 |
Title of parent work (German): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe |
Subtitle (English): | a note on model structures |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe (126) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2020/05/25 |
Publication year: | 2016 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2020/05/25 |
Tag: | climate policy analysis models; economic model structures and mechanisms; general equilibrium framework; multiple equilibria; win-win strategies |
Issue: | 126 |
Number of pages: | 13 |
Source: | Sustainability 8 (2016) 8, 761 DOI: 10.3390/su8080761 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät |
6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 69 Hausbau, Bauhandwerk / 690 Hausbau, Bauhandwerk | |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |