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| Title: | | Biodiversity and geography  |
| Authors: | | Rauscher, Michael Barbier, Edward B. |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working paper 2022 |
| Abstract: | | The paper combines an economic-geography model of agglomeration and periphery with a model of species diversity and looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is natural biodiversity, which is inevitably impaired by anthropogenic impact. Thus, the economic and the ecological system compete for space and the question arises as to how this conflict should be resolved. The decisive parameters of the model are related to biological diversity (endemism vs. redundancy of species) and the patterns of economic geography (centrifugal and centripetal forces). As regards the choice of environmental-policy instruments, it is shown that Pigouvian taxes do not always establish the optimal allocation. |
| JEL: | | Q56 Q57 Q58 R12 R14 R23 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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