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An Application of the Integrated Economic-Environmental Modelling Framework to Guatemala's Forest and Fuelwood Sector

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  • Onil Banerjee
  • Martin Cicowiez
  • Renato Vargas
  • Mark Horridge

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This paper develops and operationalizes the Integrated Economic-Environmental Modelling (IEEM) platform which integrates environmental data organized under the first international standard for environmental-economic accounting with a powerful economy-wide modelling approach. IEEM enables the ex-ante economic analysis of public policies and investment on the economy and the environment in a quantitative, comprehensive and consistent framework. IEEM elucidates the two-way interrelationships between the economy and environment, considering how economic activities depend on the environment as a source of inputs and as a sink for its outputs. In addition to standard economic impact indicators such as gross domestic product, income and employment, IEEM generates indicators that describe policy impacts on the use of environmental resources, wealth and environmental quality which together determine prospects for future economic growth and well-being. To illustrate the analytical capacity of IEEM, the model is calibrated with Guatemala's environmental-economic accounts and applied to analysis of its forest and fuelwood sector where negative health and environmental impacts arise from inefficient household fuelwood use.

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  • Onil Banerjee & Martin Cicowiez & Renato Vargas & Mark Horridge, 2017. "An Application of the Integrated Economic-Environmental Modelling Framework to Guatemala's Forest and Fuelwood Sector," Centre of Policy Studies/IMPACT Centre Working Papers g-273, Victoria University, Centre of Policy Studies/IMPACT Centre.
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    1. Onil Banerjee & Martin Cicowiez & Adela Moreda, 2017. "Reconciliation Once and For All: Economic Impact Evaluation and Social Cost Benefit Analysis," CEDLAS, Working Papers 0207, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

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    Keywords

    ex-ante economic impact evaluation; system of environmental-economic accounting; computable general equilibrium model; system of national accounting; economic and environmental indicators; wealth; natural capital; ecosystem services;
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    JEL classification:

    • D58 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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