Environmental protection, the economy, and jobs: National and regional analyses

Bezdek, Roger H.; Wendling, Robert M.; DiPerna, Paula

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.11.028

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“…Interestingly, Becker and Shadbegian (2009) 7 Berek and Hoffmann (2002) assess the employment impacts of environmental and natural resource policy and suggest five basic approaches to evaluating the effect of a policy action on employment. A related literature examines the employment effects of environmental regulation/protection where some studies find job losses (Henderson 1996, Khan 1997and Greenstone 2002, others find virtually no employment effects (Berman and Bui 2001, Morgenstern et al 2002and Cole and Elliott 2007 while Bezdek et al (2008) look at six states in the US and find a large positive jobs effects of environmental protection. More recently, Gray et al (2013) examine whether EPA regulations affect labor demand in the pulp and paper industry whilst Walker (2012) …”

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Environmental Jobs and Growth in the United States

Elliott

Lindley

2017

Ecological Economics

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Green growth is increasingly being seen as a means of simultaneously meeting current and future climate change obligations and reducing unemployment. This paper uses detailed industry-level data from the Bureau of Labor Statistic's Green Goods and Services survey to examine how the provision of so-called green goods and services has affected various aspects of the US economy. Our descriptive results reveal that those states and industries that were relatively green in 2010 became even greener in 2011. To investigate further we include green goods and services in a production function. The results show that between 2010 and 2011 industries that have increased their share of green employment have reduced their productivity although this negative correlation was only for the manufacture of green goods and not for the supply of green services. In further analysis we investigate skill-technology complementarities in the production of green goods and services and show that industries that increased their provision of green goods and services grew more slowly, reduced their expenditure on technology inputs and increased their demand for medium educated workers, whilst simultaneously reducing their demand for lower skilled workers.

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Environmental Jobs and Growth in the United States

Elliott

Lindley

2017

Ecological Economics

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“…The Porter Hypothesis (Porter and van der Linde, 1995) argues that, contrary to commonly held assumptions, stronger environmental regulations will have a minimal effect on competitiveness because they encourage innovation and efficiency, and may even lead to employment gains. The little research evidence there is would seem to suggest that the impact of environmental regulation on jobs is marginal, and in some cases may be positive (Morgenstern, Pizer and Jhih-Shyang, 2002;Bezdek, Wendling and DiPerna, 2008). The effects are influenced, however, by the scale at which the hypothesis is tested, i.e.…”

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Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma

Räthzel

Uzzell

2011

Global Environmental Change

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“…A common belief is that forestry-related environmental protection hampers the economy, whereas Bezdek et al (2008) argue that this belief is untrue. Job creation includes direct, indirect and induced job creation (Dalton and Lewis 2011;Harsdorff and Philips 2013).…”

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Indicators and tools for assessing sustainability impacts of the forest bioeconomy

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The sustainable use of renewable resources has become an important issue worldwide in the move towards a less fossil-fuel-intensive future. Mainstream method for fulfilling this aim is to increase the share of renewable energy and materials to substitute fossil fuels and to become fully independent from fossil fuels over the long-term. However, the environmental sustainability of this endeavor has been questioned. In addition, economic and social sustainability issues are also much debated topics in this particular context. Forest resources are often thought to contribute partially to achieving a so-called "carbon-neutral society". In this review, we discuss sustainability issues of using forest biomass. We present several sustainability indicators for ecological, economic and social dimensions and discuss the issues in applying them in sustainability impact assessments (SIAs). We also present a number of tools and methods previously used in conducting SIAs. We approach our study from the perspective of the Finnish forestry; in addition, various aspects regarding the application of SIAs in a broader context are also presented. One of the key conclusions of the study is that although sufficient data are available to measure many indicators accurately, the impacts may be very difficult to assess (e.g. impact of greenhouse gases on biodiversity) for conducting a holistic SIA. Furthermore, some indicators, such as "biodiversity", are difficult to quantify in the first place. Therefore, a mix of different methods, such as Multi-criteria Assessment, Life-cycle Assessment or Cost-Benefit Analysis, as well as different approaches (e.g. thresholds and strong/weak sustainability) are needed in aggregating the results of the impacts. SIAs are important in supporting and improving the acceptability of decision-making, but a certain degree of uncertainty will always have to be tolerated. Highlights:•Forest bioeconomy involves a range of multidimensional impacts.•A variety of methods exist to assess and evaluate sustainability.•Social sustainability is the most case-specific dimension to assess.•Indicators used in SIAs need case-specific considerations.•More consistency is needed regarding the concept and terminology of sustainability.

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Environmental protection, the economy, and jobs: National and regional analyses

Cited by 119 publications

References 7 publications

Environmental Jobs and Growth in the United States

Environmental Jobs and Growth in the United States

Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma

Indicators and tools for assessing sustainability impacts of the forest bioeconomy

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