Evolutionary thinking in environmental economics

By J. Bergh. 2007

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Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and environmental resources; economic and evolutionary progress; and individual behavior and environmental policy. The treatment will address both biological and economic—including institutional, organizational and technological-evolutionary phenomena. Attention will be drawn to the fact that evolutionary economics shows a surprising neglect of environmental and natural resource factors.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Coevolutionary ecological economics (2010, background): “…environmental institutions (Hodgson, 2010-this issue), lock-in barriers and transition policies for the adoption of environmental technologies (Safarzynska and van den Bergh, in press; van den Bergh, 2007; Faber and Frenken, 2009) or the potential evolution of greener corporations (Porter, 2006).”
Optimal Diversity: Increasing Returns versus Recombinant Innovation (2008, background): “As a result, it is pretty sure that choices currently made in this area are not optimal from a long-term social welfare angle (van den Bergh et al. 2006, van den Bergh 2007).”
Models in evolutionary economics and environmental policy: Towards an evolutionary environmental economics (2009, background): “…being made in applications of evolutionary economics to environmental issues, we distinguish three main areas where an evolutionary economic approach shows particular added value in environmental research: (1) the ‘double externality problem’, (2) technological transitions, and (3) consumer demand.”
Lock-in and path dependence: an evolutionary approach to eco-innovations (2014, background): “As put forward by Rennings (2000) and by van den Bergh (2007), the evolutionary approach to innovation and technical change can deepen our understanding of the dynamics of J Evol Econ DOI 10.1007/s00191-014-0381-5 G. Cecere : C. Gossart :M. Ozman Institut Mines-Télécom/Télécom École de Management,…”