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Regional economic structure and environmental pollution

An application of interregional models

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  • © 1976

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Authors:
  1. B. E. M. G. Coupé

    1. Ministry of Planning, Niamey, Republic of Niger

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Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Regional Science (SARS, volume 5)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. General introduction

    • B. E. M. G. CoupĂ©
    Pages 1-4

  3. Economic-ecologic models

    • B. E. M. G. CoupĂ©
    Pages 5-22

  4. The consumption function

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    Pages 23-35

  5. The investment function

    • B. E. M. G. CoupĂ©
    Pages 36-52

  6. The employment function

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    Pages 53-59

  7. The pollution input-output matrix

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    Pages 60-70

  8. The pollution dispersion matrix

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    Pages 71-97

  9. The input-output matrix

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    Pages 98-125

  10. The mathematics of the model

    • B. E. M. G. CoupĂ©
    Pages 126-133

  11. Results

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    Pages 134-154

  12. Conclusions

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    Pages 155-157

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 158-169
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About this book

Environmental problems, as far as they raise economic questions, even conflicting with pre-ecology economics, can be tackled in different ways. The way chosen by Bernard Coupe was not the French 'voie royale', -a Louis-XIV equivalent of a speedway - but the narrow path, con­ sisting in carefully implementing a simple but valid model. This model is amenable to many extensions, but it reveals the core of some economic-ecological problems: the search for acceptable solutions when one is confronted with a set of rather narrow constraints. A not uninteresting finding is that 'full-employment' solutions do seem to exist, though leading to different uses of the product made available. How such solutions are to be politically implemented is then a further stage of the reasoning, not taken up in this book. We spent, Bernard and I, many a well-filled hour in discussing the technicalities of the exercise: the consumption and investment functions, with their estimation problems, the treatment of the transportation sector, problems in geometric programming, et de quibusdam aliis. Especially when prefacing the final product, one is particularly pleased to be able to evoke the times past, but well spent. Bernard Coupe will certainly in the course of his development work in Africa, use the spirit and techniques of this approach. We can expect in the future some good reporting on this facet of his work too.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Ministry of Planning, Niamey, Republic of Niger

    B. E. M. G. Coupé

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Regional economic structure and environmental pollution

  • Book Subtitle: An application of interregional models

  • Authors: B. E. M. G. CoupĂ©

  • Series Title: Studies in Applied Regional Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4234-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: H.E. Stenfert Kroese B.V., Leiden 1976

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-207-0646-8Published: 31 July 1977

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-4234-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-6029

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 176

  • Topics: Economics, general

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