This thesis consists of four papers studying economic aspects of natural resource and environmental management in Namibia. <p> Paper [I] analyses changes in Namibian energy use patterns between 1980 and 1998. The study finds that, unlike their counterparts in many other developing countries where...</p>

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the relative impacts of various factors on CO<Subscript>2</Subscript> emissions from production of goods and services in China during two consecutive periods of 1992–1997 and 1997–2002. Results show that, on the positive side, level of final demand for goods and...</subscript>

The paper examines changes and their causes in CO2 emissions in Slovak economy. We use the symmetrical commodity-to-commodity input-output tables to identify the most polluting commodities in the sense of both direct and indirect effects. We decompose these changes into the contribution of (1)...

This paper presents and estimates an input-output model in which input coefficient changes are functions of changing prices. The model produces results that mirror the characteristics of input demand functions based on the model of cost minimization subject to producing a desired level of...