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Integrating biodiversity indices into a multi-species optimal control model

Biodiversity is often adversely affected by human activities. This reduces social welfare but may be external to private economic decisions. Consequently, these external effects on biodiversity need to be considered explicitly in economic models, which is only partly reflected in the literature. So far, biodiversity is mostly treated only implicitly in multiple renewable resource models, or it is considered in terms of (genetic) variability or species richness only, but not in terms of indices that simultaneously account for species richness and evenness. However, both constitute important dimensions of biodiversity. This paper integrates such biodiversity indices into an optimal control model, thus accounting for non-use values derived from the existence of multiple living resources. Main findings include that a unique equilibrium satisfying sufficient optimality conditions can be determined although the biodiversity index is non-concave. Compared to a model set-up with a monotonically increasing, concave utility function, steady state stocks are distributed more evenly and biodiversity is higher but the total number of individuals is lower when the biodiversity index is applied.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1662

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Renewable Resources and Conservation: General
Renewable Resources and Conservation: Other
Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics; Industrial Ecology
Thema
Biodiversity
Renewable Resources
Optimal Control
Non-Concavity
Biodiversität
Index
Erneuerbare Ressourcen
Ressourcenökonomik
Kontrolltheorie
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bertram, Christine
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
(wo)
Kiel
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bertram, Christine
  • Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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