Land use dynamics and the environment
Carmen Camacho and
AgustÃn Pérez-Barahona ()
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AgustÃn Pérez-Barahona: INRA
Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne
Abstract:
We build a model to study optimal land use, encompassing land use activities, pollution and climate change. This benchmark set-up allows us to identify the spatial drivers behind the interaction between land use and the environment. Pollution generates local and global damages since it flows across locations following a Gaussian Plume. In constrast to the previous literature on spatial dynamics, we prove that the social optimum problem is well-posed, i.e., the solution exists and is unique. We close the paper with a numerical analysis which illustrates the richness of our model, and its global dynamics. We study the different drivers of spatial heterogeneity. In particular, abatement technology stands out as a fundamental ingredient to achieve steady state solutions, which are compatible with the emergence of spatial patterns
Keywords: Land use; spatial dynamcis; pollution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C6 Q5 R1 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2012-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-env and nep-ure
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Journal Article: Land use dynamics and the environment (2015) 
Working Paper: Land Use Dynamics and the Environment (2015)
Working Paper: Land use dynamics and the environment (2014) 
Working Paper: Land use dynamics and the environment (2012) 
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