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Self-Regenerating Environmental Absorption Efficiency and the Soylent Green Scenario

In: Essays on Pollution Control in Economics and Management Science

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  • Fouad Ouardighi

    (ESSEC Business School)

  • Hassan Benchekroun

    (McGill University)

  • Dieter Grass

    (Vienna University of Technology)

Abstract

We consider a stock pollution problem where the biosphere can transform from a sink to a source of pollution in the presence of self-regenerating environmental absorption efficiency. We examine the problem of controlling pollution and the capacity of the biosphere to absorb pollution: the regulator can mitigate emissions and can invest to build up the absorption capacity of pollution sinks. We examine conditions under which both measures, mitigation and absorption capacity investments, are substitute (complement) to each other, and the relative extent to which environmental self-regenerating capabilities affect these conditions. We also exhibit the possibility of an oscillatory approach to the steady state. Particular attention is paid to the situation where the social planner is impatient.

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  • Fouad Ouardighi & Hassan Benchekroun & Dieter Grass, 2025. "Self-Regenerating Environmental Absorption Efficiency and the Soylent Green Scenario," Lecture Notes in Operations Research, in: Fouad El Ouardighi (ed.), Essays on Pollution Control in Economics and Management Science, chapter 0, pages 31-54, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnopch:978-3-031-78227-5_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78227-5_2
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