This chapter presents the basic model and analyses paths along which the rate of growth of
consumption per man is constant. It also analyses the optimal growth path of the economy …

This chapter explores in a rather preliminary way the problems that appear to arise naturally
when the existence of exhaustible resources is incorporated into the study of intertemporal …

While physical sciences deal with the interactions of matter and energy, economics can be
said to deal with the production and exchange of goods and services. Because goods and …

Publisher Summary This chapter explores the long-term implications of population growth
and its interaction with technological change, resources utilization, and the environment …

The prospect of imminent exhaustion of some natural resources, especially those employed
in energy generation, has prompted calls for conservation through reduction or even …

Currently there is much concern over the adequacy of the natural resource base in the
world. The purpose of this paper is to theoretically model the extraction patterns for a finite …

Ramsey's famous paper [11] created the subject of optimum economic growth. The chief
deficiency in the subject as he left it, despite some illuminating comments, was the unrealism …

Stimulated by the energy and environmental" crises" of recent years, and perhaps by the
widely debated Club of Rome study on the limits to growth (Meadows et al. 1972), a …

ECONOMISTS HAVE STUDIED NATURAL RESOURCES from the earliest days of the
profession and for good reason. Resources are seen as the basis for national prosperity …

The textile sector is considered one of the most polluting sectors of society. In order to
generate a transformation in value-added products from the textile production chain, the …