Global warming is a phenomenon to which the conceptual framework and analytical apparatuses of game theory may be appropriately applied. We regard global warming as a cooperative game and examine the conditions under which the core of the global warming game is nonempty. Copyright Springer Japan...

In order to formulate policies in response to climate change, it is essential to forecast future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the long term. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) developed the IS92 emission scenarios in 1992, which have contributed to climate change studies...

The purpose of this paper is to describe a nitrogen-based deposit-refund system for regulating non-point nitrogen emissions from agriculture. I develop a formal model of a polluting production sector with substance content of inputs and outputs as an explicit quality dimension. Within this...

The European Commission has adopted a strategy to combat acidification; this program will reduce significantly the extent of the areas in the European Union where the tolerance of sensitive ecosystems to acidity is exceeded. Benefits due to reduced adverse effects on human health, crop...

This paper examines how green net national product (NNP), which can be interpreted as “hypothetical” constant consumption, is related to sustainable development based on two levels of sustainable consumption. First, we focus on “maximum sustainable consumption” and assume that a...

Voluntary environmental agreements are widely considered an alternative instrument to command-and-control policies or economic incentives and are frequently labeled “efficient” or “cost-effective.” In this article it is argued that voluntary agreements are much more limited in scope. It...

This study was conducted from ecological and economic points of view in the setting of a nature reserve of wetlands in Taiwan. The ecological data (including area, habitat and ornithological diversity, and ornithological rarity, population size, and representativeness) of 28 wetlands in Taiwan...

The Itai-Itai disease case is one of four major pollution-related lawsuits occurring in Japan after World War II. This paper, which is based on investigations of the pollution source, the Kamioka mine, considers (1) the history of the disturbances to the environment caused by the Kamioka mine;...

This paper models an economy with a stock pollution problem that must choose between productive and environmental investments. Both increase consumption, but only the former leads to economic growth. An optimal control model is solved giving four different paths depending on the initial...