Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics

This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the conference "Susta- able Resource Use and Economic Dynamics" (SURED), held on Monte Verita ` in Ascona, Switzerland, in June 2004. Thirty years after the publication of the famous symposium issue of the Review of Economic Studies in 1974, which started the neoclassical literature on growth theory and resource economics. The conference sought to reinforce research efforts in order to provide adequate solutions for today's challenges in the ?eld of sustainable development. The c- ference compiled innovative research from resource, energy and environmental economics, and dynamic economic theory. By bringing together leading experts, junior and senior scholars in these ?elds, it covered a broad range of aspects regarding the relationship between natural resource use and long-term economic development. The SURED conference made use of the wonderful surroundings on the "mountain of truth" and the remarkable history of the conference centre, which was shaped by the desire to return to a natural way of life. In this tradition, the conference aimed at ?nding ways of living in an economically developed world and at the same time taking into account the natural environment with its restr- tions and requirements. We take the opportunity to thank the staff of the Monte Verita ` centre for the hospitality and the excellent service.

Most recent approaches to modelling technological change and pollution

to Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics.- A Dynamic Model of the Environmental Kuznets Curve: Turning Point and Public Policy.- The Optimal Timing of Adoption of a Green Technology.- Can Environmental Regulations Boost Growth?.- General Purpose Technologies and Energy Policy.- Efficient Dynamic Pollution Taxation in an Uncertain Environment.- A New-Growth Perspective on Non-Renewable Resources.- Sectoral Energy- and Labour-Productivity Convergence.- Spatial Evolution of Social Norms in a Common-Pool Resource Game.- Sustainable Motion in Classical Mechanics: An Economics Perspective.