Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: A Model of Ecological Interaction between Two Populations

Giovanni Scarano ()

QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria, 2014, issue 4

Abstract: The paper proposes an analysis of the relations between economic growth, population growth and natural ecosystem carrying capacity, applying an ecological economics approach. Starting from construction of a standard economic growth model, we introduce the effect of a natural renewable resource. The aim of the paper is to analyse the sustainable growth conditions emerging from the linear interaction model of the two populations. Connection between the biological and economic aspects of the model is achieved by integrating the concept of carrying capacity for the human population with that of subsistence, a concept of classical economics perfectly consistent with Malthusian demographic analysis.

Keywords: Economic Growth; Population Growth; Carrying Capacity; Subsistence; Renewable Resources (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 O41 O44 Q20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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