Technical pollution aspects are discussed for three urban regions of Alsace; economic pollution control is advocated through a set of hierarchical models; proposals for further elaboration are made.
Technical pollution aspects are discussed for three urban regions of Alsace; economic pollution control is advocated through a set of hierarchical models; proposals for further elaboration are made.
A general equilibrium model of environmental externalities is extended to include a spatial dimension to take into consideration the different waste assimilative capacities of the receiving bodies and relocation of economic activities a, a policy measure. Generation of residuals is basic to the approach. The main elements of the model are: utility functions, production functions, modification functions, diffusion functions and environmental service production functions.
The residuals generate cost by reducing the qualities of environmental services enjoyed as public goods by the consumers and the amount of resources available for productive use.
the study sets up a model allowing us to compensate for unwanted environmental effects of economic and/or social projects; shadow prices of shadow projects are computed.
Some fundamental questions are raised with respect to the problems and elements of environmental economics; tentative answers are suggested.