Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction to Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics

   • Lucas Bretschger, Sjak Smulders

   Pages 1-16

3. A Dynamic Model of the Environmental Kuznets Curve: Turning Point and Public Policy

   • Thomas M. Steger, Hannes Egli

   Pages 17-34

4. The Optimal Timing of Adoption of a Green Technology

   • Maria A. Cunha-e-Sá, Ana B. Reis

   Pages 35-52

5. Can Environmental Regulations Boost Growth?

   • Rob Hart

   Pages 53-70

6. General Purpose Technologies and Energy Policy

   • Adriaan van Zon, Tobias Kronenberg

   Pages 71-99

7. Efficient Dynamic Pollution Taxation in an Uncertain Environment

   • Susanne Soretz

   Pages 101-125

8. A New-Growth Perspective on Non-Renewable Resources

   • Christian Groth

   Pages 127-163

9. Sectoral Energy- and Labour-Productivity Convergence

   • Peter Mulder, Henri L. F. De Groot

   Pages 165-190

10. Spatial Evolution of Social Norms in a Common-Pool Resource Game

    • Jeroen C. J. M. Van Den Bergh, Cees A. Withagen, Joëlle Noailly

    Pages 191-216

11. Sustainable Motion in Classical Mechanics: An Economics Perspective

    • John M. Hartwick

    Pages 217-227

12. Back Matter

    Pages 229-229

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This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the conference “Susta- able Resource Use and Economic Dynamics” (SURED), held on Monte Verita ` in Ascona, Switzerland, in June 2004. Thirty years after the publication of the famous symposium issue of the Review of Economic Studies in 1974, which started the neoclassical literature on growth theory and resource economics. The conference sought to reinforce research efforts in order to provide adequate solutions for today’s challenges in the ?eld of sustainable development. The c- ference compiled innovative research from resource, energy and environmental economics, and dynamic economic theory. By bringing together leading experts, junior and senior scholars in these ?elds, it covered a broad range of aspects regarding the relationship between natural resource use and long-term economic development. The SURED conference made use of the wonderful surroundings on the “mountain of truth” and the remarkable history of the conference centre, which was shaped by the desire to return to a natural way of life. In this tradition, the conference aimed at ?nding ways of living in an economically developed world and at the same time taking into account the natural environment with its restr- tions and requirements. We take the opportunity to thank the staff of the Monte Verita ` centre for the hospitality and the excellent service.

• Environmental economics
• Sustainable Development
• Sustainable Growth
• development
• economics
• energy
• environment
• sustainability

• CER-ETH Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  Lucas Bretschger

• Tilburg University, The Netherlands

  Sjak Smulders

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