Lethal Effects of Pollution and Economic Growth: Efficiency of Abatement Technology

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2017-05-30 DOI:10.1111/jere.12151

Asuka Oura, Yasukatsu Moridera, Koichi Futagami

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Abstract

The accumulation of pollution negatively impacts human health. Extreme increases in pollution, in particular, may have lethal implications for human beings, and, indeed, all living organisms. This paper thus devises a new model of economic growth that takes into account these lethal effects of accumulated pollution via a pollution threshold to show two key results. First, if an abatement technology is relatively inefficient, there exists a stationary steady state in which consumption and pollution stop growing. Second, if the abatement technology is sufficiently efficient, there exists a path along which pollution decreases at an accelerating rate until it finally reaches zero. In this case, consumption grows at a constant rate.

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污染的致命效应与经济增长:减排技术的效率

污染的累积对人类健康产生负面影响。特别是污染的急剧增加，可能对人类，实际上对所有生物都有致命的影响。因此，本文设计了一个新的经济增长模型，该模型通过污染阈值考虑了累积污染的这些致命影响，并显示了两个关键结果。首先，如果一种减排技术的效率相对较低，那么就会存在一种固定的稳定状态，在这种状态下，消耗和污染停止增长。第二，如果减排技术足够有效，就存在一条污染加速减少直至最终达到零的路径。在这种情况下，消费以恒定速率增长。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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