Coupling economic models and environmental assessment methods to support regional policies: A critical review

Beaussier, Thomas; Caurla, Sylvain; Maurel, Véronique Bellon; Loiseau, Eléonore

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.01.020

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“…Researchers are encouraged to discriminate between methods, assess their applicability and choose the most appropriate method. Most of the previous [31][32][33] studies have carried out environmental flow calculations for specific projects. How to reduce the uncertainty and improve the rationality and accuracy of the evaluation results is worth further discussion.…”

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A Comment on Chinese Policies to Avoid Negative Impacts on River Ecosystems by Hydropower Projects

Chen

Zhang

et al. 2020

Water

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The rapid economic development of river basins depends on the excessive use of water resources. China experienced a rapid development of hydropower projects in the last two decades and thus faces many ecological and environmental issues, especially in ecologically sensitive areas. Environmental flow is an important management tool that requires attention in the environmental impact assessment of hydropower projects. Environmental flows are of great significance for maintaining river structures and protecting the health of both aquatic ecosystems and human sustainable livelihoods. Although the government authorities have done much work in this area and attempted to consider technical requirements to address the negative externalities of hydropower projects, there are still defects in the basic procedures, calculation methods, and ultimately implementation process from policy to operationalization in terms of environmental flows. The official standards for environmental flows assessment mainly appear in two documents: 1. specification for calculation of environmental flow in rivers and lakes; and 2. code for calculation ecological flow of hydropower projects. This paper reviewed the overarching framework of the two documents and then summarized their fitness in terms of environmental flows implementation in hydropower projects. The research status of environmental flows and future directions for China were also proposed in this paper.

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A Comment on Chinese Policies to Avoid Negative Impacts on River Ecosystems by Hydropower Projects

Chen

Zhang

et al. 2020

Water

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“…There are four case studies using PEM and LCA at the regional scale, e.g., expanding the geographical boundary to several countries by including import and export. Katelhon et al and Beaussier et al, who agreed with this point, identified that the geographical boundary of PEM ranges from the macro to meso scale [42,43]. Interestingly, one case study used PEM and LCA at the global level to identify the long-term marginal electricity supply mixes of 40 countries in the period of 2015-2030 [22].…”

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“…Due to the fact that the PEM considers the product system without connection to the rest of the economy, the coupling of PEM and LCA is frequently applied to an industry or an economic sector [42]. Several authors clarified that the PEM and LCA coupling is suitable to study one or two closely related sectors with 5 to 20 products [43,44]. This is true for all reviewed case studies which applied PEM and LCA, with focus on one sector of energy production [22,[29][30][31][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51], or two sectors of energy production and waste management [52,53] or energy production and agriculture/forest/crop growing [39,41,[54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62].…”

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“…The coupling of PEM and LCA offers the efficient modelling of consequential effects based on economic indicators. It can model indirect environmental impacts due to simple changes in supply, demand and price [43]. Eriksson et al compared five combined heat and power technologies based on waste incineration and combustion of biomass or natural gas in Sweden.…”

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A Conceptual Review on Using Consequential Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for the Energy Sector

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Energy is engaged in the supply chain of many economic sectors; therefore, the environmental impacts of the energy sector are indirectly linked to those of other sectors. Consequential life cycle assessment (CLCA) is an appropriate methodology to examine the direct and indirect environmental impacts of a product due to technological, economic or social changes. To date, different methodological approaches are proposed, combining economic and environmental models. This paper reviews the basic concept of CLCA and the coupling of economic and environmental models for performing CLCA in the energy sector during the period 2006–2020, with the aim to provide a description of the different tools, highlighting their strengths and limitations. From the review, it emerges that economic modelling tools are frequently used in combination with environmental data for CLCA in the energy sector, including equilibrium, input-output, and dynamic models. Out of these, the equilibrium model is the most widely used, showing some strengths in availability of data and energy system modelling tools. The input-output model allows for describing both direct and indirect effects due to changes in the energy sector, by using publicly available data. The dynamic model is less frequently applied due to its limitation in availability of data and modelling tools, but has recently attracted more attention due to the ability in modelling quantitative and qualitative indicators of sustainability.

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“…Исследование экономических моделей и экологических методов оценки показало, что наиболее эффективными являются сочетания моделей полного (частичного) равновесия с методами экологического следа и оценки жизненного цикла. Однако, безусловно, обозначенные выше модели не дублируют, а дополняют друг друга, поэтому иногда целесообразно применение сразу нескольких из них [19]. В настоящей работе мы сосредоточились на построении инструментов и институтов достижения Паретооптимального равновесия эколого-экономических интересов, относящихся к ПЭТ, в Российской Федерации.…”

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The nature and methods of resolution of conflicts of environmental and economic interests

Karginova-Gubinova¹,

Tishkov²,

Shcherbak³

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Наличие противоречий экологических и экономических интересов, повышающих как экологические, так и экономические риски, является значительной угрозой национальной безопасности территорий. Целью данного исследования стало определение сущности конфликтов экологических и экономических интересов и рассмотрение методов их урегулирования на примере конфликтов в отношении полиэтилентерефталата (ПЭТ). ПЭТ был выбран в качестве основного объекта в связи с распространённостью и неурегулированностью связанных с ним эколого-экономических интересов в Российской Федерации. Теоретической базой работы являются труды отечественных и зарубежных специалистов. Был использован анализ нормативно-правовой базы, методы сравнительного анализа законодательства, прикладной статистики, кейс-стади. Также исследование опирается на данные, полученные с помощью методов экологического следа и оценки жизненного цикла. В статье рассмотрены теоретические основы возникновения и особенности конфликтов эколого-экономических интересов хозяйствующих субъектов, населения и государства. Выделены основные методы их моделирования и изучения. Проанализированы и сопоставлены с альтернативными материалами ключевые характеристики ПЭТ. Обоснована неэффективность существующих механизмов урегулирования конфликтов, связанных с ПЭТ. Предложены инструменты и институты успешного разрешения эколого-экономических конфликтов в отношении ПЭТ в Российской Федерации. На основании теоремы Портера показано, что следует совершенствовать институциональную среду для стимулирования и поддержания инновационной деятельности. Сделан вывод о необходимости дополнения равновесной модели такими институциональными характеристиками, которые сделают возможным достижение динамического равновесия. Результаты исследования расширяют теоретико-методологические работы по разрешению конфликтов интересов и на практике могут быть использованы государственными и муниципальными органами власти. Ключевые слова: теория конфликтов интересов, противоречие интересов, Парето-оптимальное равновесие, экологический след, оценка жизненного цикла, ПЭТ, пластик, Российская Федерация, безопасность.

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Coupling economic models and environmental assessment methods to support regional policies: A critical review

Cited by 58 publications

References 95 publications

A Comment on Chinese Policies to Avoid Negative Impacts on River Ecosystems by Hydropower Projects

A Comment on Chinese Policies to Avoid Negative Impacts on River Ecosystems by Hydropower Projects

A Conceptual Review on Using Consequential Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for the Energy Sector

The nature and methods of resolution of conflicts of environmental and economic interests

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