Evolutionary economics and regional policy

Models in evolutionary economics and environmental policy: Towards an evolutionary environmental economics

In this paper we review evolutionary economic modelling in relation to environmental policy. We discuss three areas in which evolutionary economic models have a particularly high added value for environmental policy-making: the double externality problem, technological transitions and consumer demand. We explore the possibilities to apply evolutionary economic models in environmental policy ass...

Environmental and Regional Economics

Energy Economics and Policy

Copyright © 2013 Zhan-Ming Chen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. There are emerging concerns worldwide on management of energy resources and its development, such as control of the environmental impact of ene...

Agroforestry Economics and Policy

Essentially every living thing on Earth has applied the basic concepts of economics. That is, every living thing has had to use a limited set of resources to meet a minimum set of needs or wants. Although the study of economics is often confused with the study of markets or finance, economics is simply a social science that studies the choices people make. As a social science, economics is the ...

Evolutionary Agent-Based Economics Evolutionary Agent-Based Economics

The work in this thesis has been carried out at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) under the auspices of the research school IPA (Institute for Programming research and Algorithmics). Acknowledgments I am grateful to the many people who have helped and supported me in the past few years. First of all, I thank my supervisors Han La Poutré and Hans Amman for their valuable input and t...