Resource Consumption, Sustainability, and Cancer

Resource consumption, sustainability, and cancer.

Preserving a system's viability in the presence of diversity erosion is critical if the goal is to sustainably support biodiversity. Reduction in population heterogeneity, whether inter- or intraspecies, may increase population fragility, either decreasing its ability to adapt effectively to environmental changes or facilitating the survival and success of ordinarily rare phenotypes. The latter...

Environmental Sustainability —A Consumption Approach

Surely one of the greatest achievements of the current phase of globalization has been the spurt of economic growth in countries that were desperately poor just a few decades ago and some of which, even now, carry huge burdens of poverty. This spurt in economic growth and the consumption growth that accompanied it have lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty and, concurrently, provided a gli...

The Sustainability of ' ' Sustainable Consumption

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Trade and Resource Sustainability with Overlapping Generations∗

Trade changes incentives to protect an open-access natural resource. In an OLG setting, the capital asset market transfers policy-induced future gains and losses to the current asset owner. The asset market creates incentives for agents currently alive to protect the natural resource under autarchy. Trade reverses these incentives. In a dynamic political economy, agents without bequest motives ...