Long-run welfare under externalities in consumption, leisure, and production: A case for happy degrowth vs. unhappy growth

Bilancini, Ennio; D’Alessandro, Simone

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.10.023

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“…A number of experimental studies confirm the role of consumption externalities in explaining the paradox in Easterlin (1974): a higher income does not necessarily increase happiness (Cooper et al, 2001;Wendner, 2014). Consumption externalities have been studied in a growth model in (Bilancini and D'Alessandro (2012), Liu and Turnovsky (2005) and Cooper et al (2001)). Both Liu and Turnovsky (2005) and Bilancini and D'Alessandro (2012) apply a representative consumer model.…”

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“…Consumption externalities have been studied in a growth model in (Bilancini and D'Alessandro (2012), Liu and Turnovsky (2005) and Cooper et al (2001)). Both Liu and Turnovsky (2005) and Bilancini and D'Alessandro (2012) apply a representative consumer model. The analysis in this paper is based on extending the model in Bilancini and D'Alessandro (2012) to heterogeneous preferences and VS.…”

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“…For voluntary degrowth to take place, it needs to be initiated by the households themselves. 1 1Transitions with degrowth from an equilibrium to optimum are studied by Bilancini and D'Alessandro (2012) assuming the society can command or induce the transitions. To formally study pathways towards voluntary degrowth, this paper introduces heterogeneous and time-varying preferences 2 into a dynamic equilibrium model.…”

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“…The importance of technological advances was highlighted by Good and Reuveny (2009), who, however, assumed that technology is static in their work. Alvarez et al (2011) and Bilancini and D'Alessandro (2012) included the development of technology in their social system model. Based on the results presented here, it is clear that the technological advances should be incorporated in future efforts at the modeling of socio-hydrological systems, also following the example of van Emmerik et al (2014).…”

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A conceptual socio-hydrological model of the co-evolution of humans and water: case study of the Tarim River basin, western China

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Tian

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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. The complex interactions and feedbacks between humans and water are critically important issues but remain poorly understood in the newly proposed discipline of sociohydrology (Sivapalan et al., 2012). An exploratory model with the appropriate level of simplification can be valuable for improving our understanding of the co-evolution and self-organization of socio-hydrological systems driven by interactions and feedbacks operating at different scales. In this study, a simplified conceptual socio-hydrological model based on logistic growth curves is developed for the Tarim River basin in western China and is used to illustrate the explanatory power of such a co-evolutionary model. The study area is the main stream of the Tarim River, which is divided into two modeling units. The socio-hydrological system is composed of four sub-systems, i.e., the hydrological, ecological, economic, and social sub-systems. In each modeling unit, the hydrological equation focusing on water balance is coupled to the other three evolutionary equations to represent the dynamics of the social sub-system (denoted by population), the economic sub-system (denoted by irrigated crop area ratio), and the ecological sub-system (denoted by natural vegetation cover), each of which is expressed in terms of a logistic growth curve. Four feedback loops are identified to represent the complex interactions among different sub-systems and different spatial units, of which two are inner loops occurring within each separate unit and the other two are outer loops linking the two modeling units. The feedback mechanisms are incorporated into the constitutive relations for model parameters, i.e., the colonization and mortality rates in the logistic growth curves that are jointly determined by the state variables of all sub-systems. The co-evolution of the Tarim socio-hydrological system is then analyzed with this conceptual model to gain insights into the overall system dynamics and its sensitivity to the external drivers and internal system variables. The results show a costly pendulum swing between a balanced distribution of socio-economic and natural ecologic resources among the upper and lower reaches and a highly skewed distribution towards the upper reach. This evolution is principally driven by the attitudinal changes occurring within water resources management policies that reflect the evolving community awareness of society to concerns regarding the ecology and environment.

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“…The degrowth perspective is focused on enhancing human well-being, and reducing the importance of economic growth in attaining this goal (Bilancini and D'Alessandro, 2012). Degrowth can be considered a "provocative slogan" (Latouche, 2010); but it can also be interpreted as a more defined concept that already has many policy concerns behind it, such as work-sharing or new paradigms of local living .…”

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Assessing the degrowth discourse: A review and analysis of academic degrowth policy proposals

Cosme

Santos

O'Neill

2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Highlights We present a review of a selection of peer-reviewed degrowth articles. We identify inconsistencies between the degrowth discourse and proposals for action. Identified degrowth proposals are mainly national top-down approaches not local bottom-up ones. Proposals aim for sustainable scale and fair distribution over efficient allocation. Proposals should be analysed in combination to arrive at a degrowth policy mix. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTand analysing a set of proposals for action retrieved from a selection of articles. total of 128 peerreviewed articles focused on degrowth were reviewed, and 54 that include proposals for action were analysed. The proposals identified align with three broad goals: (1) Reduce the environmental impact of human activities; (2) Redistribute income and wealth both within and between countries; and (3) Promote the transition from a materialistic to a convivial and participatory society. The findings indicate that the majority of degrowth proposals are national top-down approaches, focusing on government as a major driver of change, rather than local bottom-up approaches, as advocated by many degrowth proponents. The most emphasised aspects in the degrowth literature are related to social equity, closely followed by environmental sustainability. Topics such as population growth and the implications of degrowth for developing nations are largely neglected, and represent an important area for future research. Moreover, there is a need for a deeper analysis of how degrowth proposals would act in combination.

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Long-run welfare under externalities in consumption, leisure, and production: A case for happy degrowth vs. unhappy growth

Cited by 51 publications

References 66 publications

(De)growth and welfare in an equilibrium model with heterogeneous consumers

(De)growth and welfare in an equilibrium model with heterogeneous consumers

A conceptual socio-hydrological model of the co-evolution of humans and water: case study of the Tarim River basin, western China

Assessing the degrowth discourse: A review and analysis of academic degrowth policy proposals

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