This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of Brander and Taylor's (1998) model and its descendants from the following perspectives: population growth, substitutability, innovation, capital accumulation, property rights and institutional designs, and modeling approach. This survey aims to...

This chapter documents a multi-disciplinary collaboration among a mathematical economist, an ecological economist, and a systems scientist to demonstrate the contributions of system dynamics (SD) to the advancement of dynamic modeling in ecological economics. Ecological economics is a...

This paper investigates ecological threshold and ecological economic threshold by developing an ecological economic model—an extension of a population–resource dynamics model developed by Brander and Taylor (1998). The model reflects three critical issues regarding an ecological economic...

Since 2015, the detrimental effects of plastic pollution have attracted media, public, and governmental attention. Considering that economic growth is inevitable and a key driver of plastic contamination, it is worthwhile to analyze the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) relationship between...