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Ecological compensation: how much and where?

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  • Pascal GASTINEAU

    (IFSTTAR, AME, EASE, Bouguenais, France.)

  • Pascal MOSSAY

    (School of Economics and Trade, Kyungpook National University, Korea. CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.)

  • Emmanuel TAUGOURDEAU

    (CNRS, CREST, ENSAE, Ecole Polytechnique, ENS Paris-Saclay, Institut Polytechnique de Paris,F-91128 Palaiseau ,France.)

Abstract

We propose a spatial framework to study ecological compensation. The policy-maker implements a No Net Loss policy that meets the No Worse-Off principle as well as a location constraint on the offset. This determines both the location and the level of compensation that minimize the total cost of restoration. We describe the additional ecological cost induced by the No Worse-Off principle and how the spatial distribution of individuals, the environment and land costs affect the compensation location. The location constraint is shown to introduce a trade-off between the compensation cost and inequality.

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  • Pascal GASTINEAU & Pascal MOSSAY & Emmanuel TAUGOURDEAU, 2019. "Ecological compensation: how much and where?," Working Papers 2019-25, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics.
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    Keywords

    Ecological compensation; no net loss policy; welfare; inequality;
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    JEL classification:

    • I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
    • Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics
    • R1 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics

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