We contrast e¤ects of taxing non-renewable resources with the e¤ects of traditional capital taxes and investment subsidies in an endogenous growth model. In a simple framework we demonstrate that when non-renewable resources are a necessary input in the sector where growth is ultimately generated, interest income taxes and investment subsidies can no longer a¤ect the long-run growth rate, where...

An interesting stream of the civil conflict literature has identified an important subset of civil conflicts with disastrous consequences, that is, those that emerge as a consequence of shocks to renewable natural resources like land and water. This literature is, however, reliant on qualitative case studies when claiming a causal relationship leading from renewable resource shocks to conflict....

Multi-agent systems are widely used in renewable and natural resources management. Multi-agent systems are able to manage the complexity of such systems characterized by a large number of interacting entities with different levels of granularity and including dynamics of different contexts (ecological, economic, social). In this work, we propose a generic multi-level architecture for renewable ...

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Power consumption in IP-over-WDM networks has become a major concern, more so due to rapidly evolving data intensive applications. Increasing power consumption also increases the environmental cost (carbon emission). Carbon emissions are the result of power generation using non-renewable (traditional hydrocarbons) energy resources. Usage of non-renewable energy resources (such as hydrocarbons, ...

Non-renewable and renewable resources are imperfect substitutes due to technical and geographical constraints. What is the role of imperfect substitution on the optimal transition path to the clean technologies? We address this question by characterizing the optimal growth path and resource use of an economy. We show that the economy initially starts with using the non-renewable and renewable r...

renewable energy sources (res), especially wind power plants, have high priority of promotion in the energy policies worldwide. an increasing share of res and distributed generation (dg), should, as has been assumed, provide improvement in reliability of electricity delivery to the customers. paper presented here concentrates on electricity storage systems technologies and applications pinpoint...

In past several decades, extensive research has been performed regarding the possibilities of using renewable resources for the production of chemicals and fuels instead of fossil resources, which will eventually become rare and therefore expensive. Increasing the use of materials based on renewable resources for packaging and other applications not only holds significant advantages in economic...

The energy demand is sharply increasing due to industrialization, huge population growth, and increased comfort lives etc. This energy demand mostly extracts from the fossil fuels which is non-renewable and the known reservoirs expected to finish in near future. The whole world may face energy crisis soon, altogether the fossil fuel produces greenhouse gasses (GHG) which cause the climate chang...