Economic, land use, and ecosystem services impacts of Rwanda's Green Growth Strategy: An application of the IEEM+ESM platform

Banerjee, Onil; Bagstad, Kenneth J.; Cicowiez, Martín; Dudek, Sebastian; Horridge, Mark; Alavalapati, Janaki R.R.; Masozera, Michel; Rukundo, Emmanuel; Rutebuka, Evariste

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138779

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“…The reason behind this is that continuous economic growth substantially increases unsustainable production and consumption in high-GDP countries. Other studies, e.g., O'Neill (36), D'Alessandro et al (37), Banerjee et al (38), also examine whether economic growth has a remarkable impact on green growth. Furthermore, the initially positive trend in economic growth leads to increased green growth by utilizing natural resources.…”

Section: Green Growth and The Environmentmentioning

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Green Growth, Green Technology, and Environmental Health: Evidence From High-GDP Countries

Hussain

Mehmood

Khan

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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Green growth is an exceptional strategy for sustainable development. It provides a pathway to combat environmental issues and the use of natural resources. This study investigates the effects of green technology and environmental factors on green growth in high-gross domestic product (GDP) countries from 2000 to 2020. In addition, it also probes the linear and nonlinear effects of GDP on green growth. To do so, we employ an advanced econometric approach, e.g., a cross-sectional autoregressive distributed lags estimator for long and short runs. The outcomes demonstrate that the linear effect of GDP is positive for green growth. On the contrary, the nonlinear effect of GDP has a negative magnitude for green growth. Besides, green technology substantially increases green growth. Energy consumption is found to be an important influencer, and it decreases green growth. Environmental factors such as emissions, according to the findings, also reduce green growth in the sample countries. It is worth noting that the joint effects of energy consumption and emissions deteriorate green growth in countries. Based on empirical findings, for policy makers, this study suggests that high-GDP countries should manage their economic and environmental activities in order to increase the amount of green growth that may protect the ecological environment.

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Section: Green Growth and The Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Growth, Green Technology, and Environmental Health: Evidence From High-GDP Countries

Hussain

Mehmood

Khan

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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“…Although sectoral level planning exists, better information (and coordination) could help to reduce the risk of individual sectoral targets leading to cross-sectoral tensions and could help to resolve situations when there are competing demands for the same land. Data on trends in land value on the one hand and changes in land use and land cover on the other, and their potential implications for water use, food production, and other ecosystem services could also inform policy and planning (see, e.g., [50][51][52][53][54]).…”

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Natural Capital Accounting for Land in Rwanda

Nishimwe¹,

Rugema

Uwera

et al. 2020

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Land, as a valuable natural resource, is an important pillar of Rwanda’s sustainable development. The majority of Rwanda’s 80% rural population rely on agriculture for their livelihood, and land is crucial for agriculture. However, since a high population density has made land a scarce commodity, growth in the agricultural sector and plans for rapid urbanisation are being constrained, and cross-sectoral trade-offs are becoming increasingly important, with a risk that long-term sustainability may be threatened if these trade-offs are not considered. To help track land value trends and assess trade-offs, and to help assess the sustainability of trends in land use and land cover, Rwanda has begun developing natural capital accounts for land in keeping with the United Nations’ System of Environmental-Economic Accounting. This paper reports on Rwanda’s progress with these accounts. The accounting approach adopted in our study measures changes in land use and land cover and quantifies stocks for the period under study (2014–2015). Rwanda is one of the first developing countries to develop natural capital accounts for land, but the wide range of possible uses in policy analysis suggests that such accounts could be useful for other countries as well.

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“…Our assessment goes beyond a conventional benefit-cost approach by applying the Integrated Economic-Environmental Modeling (IEEM) Platform to five countries in the region. We translate demand for land as a factor of production from IEEM's environmental-economic modeling into spatially explicit land cover changes through land use-land cover (LULC) change modeling and, using spatial Ecosystem Services Modeling (ESM), evaluate changes to natural capital stocks and ecosystem service flows that drive broader social and economic impacts [35,36].…”

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Can we avert an Amazon tipping point? The economic and environmental costs

Banerjee¹,

Cicowiez

Macedo

et al. 2022

Environ. Res. Lett.

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The Amazon biome is being pushed by unsustainable economic drivers towards an ecological tipping point where restoration to its previous state may no longer be possible. This degradation is the result of self-reinforcing interactions between deforestation, climate change and fire. We assess the economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts and trade-offs of scenarios representing movement towards an Amazon tipping point and strategies to avert one using the Integrated Economic-Environmental Modeling (IEEM) Platform linked with spatial land use-land cover change and ecosystem services modeling (IEEM+ESM). Our approach provides the first approximation of the economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts of a tipping point, and evidence to build the economic case for strategies to avert it. For the five Amazon focal countries, namely, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador, we find that a tipping point would create economic losses of US$256.6 billion in cumulative Gross Domestic Product by 2050. Policies that would contribute to averting a tipping point, including strongly reducing deforestation, investing in intensifying agriculture in cleared lands, climate-adapted agriculture and improving fire management, would generate approximately US$339.3 billion in additional wealth and a return on investment of US$29.5 billion. Quantifying the costs, benefits and trade-offs of policies to avert a tipping point in a transparent and replicable manner can support the design of regional development strategies for the Amazon biome, build the business case for action and catalyze global cooperation and financing to enable policy implementation.

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Economic, land use, and ecosystem services impacts of Rwanda's Green Growth Strategy: An application of the IEEM+ESM platform

Cited by 28 publications

References 63 publications

Green Growth, Green Technology, and Environmental Health: Evidence From High-GDP Countries

Green Growth, Green Technology, and Environmental Health: Evidence From High-GDP Countries

Natural Capital Accounting for Land in Rwanda

Can we avert an Amazon tipping point? The economic and environmental costs

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