I. Macdonald, Geoffrey Maitland, M. Blunt, Martin Trusler, V. Vesovic
{"title":"Putting CO2 in Its Place! A Unique Research Partnership Investigating the Fundamental Principles of Subsurface Carbon Dioxide Behaviour and Carbonate Reservoirs","authors":"I. Macdonald, Geoffrey Maitland, M. Blunt, Martin Trusler, V. Vesovic","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3366403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3366403","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract not provided to SSRN.","PeriodicalId":188091,"journal":{"name":"Systems Ecology eJournal","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123637014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Indrajaya, E. van der Werf, H. Weikard, F. Mohren, E. V. van Ierland
{"title":"The Potential of REDD+ for Carbon Sequestration in Tropical Forests: Supply Curves for Carbon Storage for Kalimantan, Indonesia","authors":"Y. Indrajaya, E. van der Werf, H. Weikard, F. Mohren, E. V. van Ierland","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2715430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2715430","url":null,"abstract":"We study the potential of tropical multi-age multi-species forests for sequestering carbon in response to financial incentives from REDD+. The use of reduced impact logging techniques (RIL) allows a forest owner to apply for carbon credits whereas the use of conventional logging techniques (CL) does not. This paper is the first to develop a Hartman model with selective cutting in this setting that takes additionality of carbon sequestration explicitly into account. We apply the model using data for Kalimantan, Indonesia. RIL leads to less damages on the residual stand than CL and has lower variable but higher fixed costs. We find that a system of carbon credits through REDD+ has a large potential for carbon storage. Interestingly, awarding carbon credits to carbon stored in end-use wood products does not increase the amount of carbon stored and reduces Land Expectation Value. We also observe that the level of the carbon price at which it becomes optimal not to harvest depends on the interpretation of the steady state model.","PeriodicalId":188091,"journal":{"name":"Systems Ecology eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130139632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecological Economics vs Economic(al) Ecology","authors":"G. Kharlamova","doi":"10.17721/1728-2667.2015/174-9/14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2667.2015/174-9/14","url":null,"abstract":"Currently world faces the dilemma - ecological economy or economic(al) ecology. The researchers produce hundreds of surveys on the topic. However the analyses of recent most cited simulations had shown the diversity of results. Thus, for some states the Kuznets environmental curve has place, for others - no. Same could be said about different years for the same state. It provokes the necessity of drawing new group analyses to reveal the tendencies and relationships between economic and environmental factors. Most flexible and mirror factor of environmental sustainability is the volume of CO2 emissions. The econometric analysis was used for detecting the economic impact on this indicator at the global level and in the spectra of group of states depending on their income. The hypothesis of the existence of environmental Kuznets curve for the analysed data is rejected. Real GDP per capita impact on carbon dioxide emissions is considered only at the global level. The impact of openness of the economy is weak. Rejection happened also to the hypothesis that for the developed countries there is a reverse dependence between the environmental pollution and economic openness. Indicator \"energy consumption per capita\" impacts on greenhouse gas emissions only in countries with high income. Whereby it should be noted that the more developed a country is, the more elastic is this influence. These results have a potential usage for environmental policy regulation and climate strategy.","PeriodicalId":188091,"journal":{"name":"Systems Ecology eJournal","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134488347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental Regulation and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from South Korea","authors":"Sunghoon Chung","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3409630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3409630","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies how environmental regulation shapes the pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI), and thereby assesses the pollution haven hypothesis. Conflicting results exist in the case studies examining the most advanced countries, partly due to the deterrent effect of clean technology adoptions on industry migration. To minimize the clean technology effect, we examine the pattern of South Korean FDI over 2000–2007, the period that Korean firms relied on old production technologies despite facing rapidly strengthened environmental standards. A difference-in-differences type identification strategy circumvents other potential confounders. We find strong evidence that polluting industries tend to invest more in countries with laxer environmental regulations in terms of both the amount of investment (intensive margin) and the number of new foreign affiliates (extensive margin). A similar finding is obtained when imports are analyzed.","PeriodicalId":188091,"journal":{"name":"Systems Ecology eJournal","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125552724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hydrology and the Design of Efficient Water Transfer Policy","authors":"Gareth P. Green","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3215536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3215536","url":null,"abstract":"The use of water transfer mechanisms, such as water banks and markets, as a method to promote the efficient use of scarce water resources has become increasingly more common during the last decade. Examples include: agriculture-to-urban transfers in the Colorado Canal, the electronic market, WaterLink, in Westlands Water District, California, and Idaho’s District 1 water bank. The goal of these programs is to allow the transfer of water from low to high value uses, thereby increasing the benefits derived from water use. Unfortunately, the economics literature on water transfers has only given a cursory nod to how the proper design of water policy relates to the hydrology of a water supply system. Return flows are a key hydrologic factor that should be accounted for to avoid third-party impacts associated with water transfers, where return flows are defined as the portion of diversions that are not consumed and return to the hydrologic system. Other diverters and instream water users often depend on return flows for their water supplies. Consequently, transferring water or changing use patterns may disrupt their supply if the transfer policy does not distinguish between diversionary and consumptive use correctly.","PeriodicalId":188091,"journal":{"name":"Systems Ecology eJournal","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128166614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}