Intergenerational discounting: a new intuitive approach

By U. R. Sumaila, Carl J Walters. 2005

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research

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The argument against a reductionist approach for measuring sustainable development performance and the need for methodological pluralism (2009, background): “Modifications of the current discounting and aggregation procedures have been proposed by Rabl (1996), Farrow (1998), Padilla (2002), Sumaila and Walters (2005), Saez and Requena (2007) and Zerbe, Bauman, and Finkle (2006) amongst others but the debate about whether equity considerations can be…”
Ethical Considerations in On-Ground Applications of the Ecosystem Services Concept (2012, background): “ethics of social discounting for future generations (Sumaila and Walters 2005). TEEB (2008) 338”
The golden rule when preferences are time inconsistent (2010, background): “In a seminal paper, Sumaila and Walters [16] separate the (psychological) impatience of the present generation from its (ethical) concern for future generations.”
Reconciling Sustainability and Discounting in Cost Benefit Analysis: a methodological proposal (2007, background): “Recently, Taylor et al. (2003) obtained implicit discount rates that were different for forest benefits of distinct nature, namely timber and recreation.”
A Cautionary Note on Individual Transferable Quotas (2010, background): “…of ITQ owners was solely to maximize the discounted economic rent from the fishery and if the discount rate and the intrinsic growth rate of the fish were at suitable levels (Clark 1973, Sumaila and Bawumia 2000, Sumaila and Walters 2005, Prager and Shertzer 2006, Sumaila and Walters 2007).”
Assessment of the programme of measures for coastal lagoon environmental restoration using cost-benefit analysis (2011, background): “In spite of the fact that selecting an environmental discount rate is not a settled issue, because of the ethical aspect of having to choose a value, there is a consensus in using reduced rates, which would tend to zero if there is absolute intergenerational equity (Sumaila and Walters, 2005).”
Climate change impacts on the biophysics and economics of world fisheries (2011, background): “In view of the range of benefits fisheries resources are capable of providing, the choice of discount rates becomes an extremely critical issue in formulating and evaluating conservation and management policy to address climate chang”
[Editorial] Trade-offs in corporate sustainability: you can't have your cake and eat it (2010, background): “In the sustainable development literature – more precisely in the context of intergenerational equity and the discussion of discount rates for the use of natural resources – temporal aspects and trade-offs have received considerable attention (Portney and Weyant, 1999; Sumaila and Walters, 2005).”
Cultural bequest values for ecosystem service flows among indigenous fishers: A discrete choice experiment validated with mixed methods (2015, background): “613 614 Many drivers influence individual time preferences, including socio-economic conditions, 615 psychological handling of uncertainty and risk, and ethical perspectives on, for instance, 616 intergenerational justice (Sumaila and Walters, 2005; Teh et al., 2014).”
Trade-offs between conservation and socio-economic objectives in managing a tropical marine ecosystem (2008, methodology): “Thus, discount rates for valuing public resources (generally lower than the private rates) were used in the analyses (Sumaila and Walters, 2005).”