The Worst-Case Scenario and Discounting the Very Long Term
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- El Hadji Fall, 2006. "The Worst-Case Scenario and Discounting the Very Long Term," Cahiers de la Maison des Sciences Economiques v06005, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1).
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- Brian Deal & Haozhi Pan, 2016. "Discerning and Addressing Environmental Failures in Policy Scenarios Using Planning Support System (PSS) Technologies," Sustainability, MDPI, Open Access Journal, vol. 9(1), pages 1-17, December.
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intergenerational equity; Discounting; environment; uncertainty; preservation of natural resources; intergenerational equity.; Environnement; incertitude; préservation; équité intergénérationnelle;JEL classification:
- O4 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
- Q2 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation
- D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
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