Article ID: | iaor1996537 |
Country: | Greece |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 87 |
End Page Number: | 99 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1994 |
Journal: | Studies In Regional and Urban Planning |
Authors: | Dijk Jaap van, Weerdhof Frank van de |
Keywords: | world affairs |
Environmental pollution is a dominant issue on today’s international political and economic agenda. In some cases it is inevitable that the use of a resource (such as oil) should create pollution. The problem is how to minimise the effects of such pollution. This paper studies two aspects of this; optimisation in the space dimension and optimisation in the time domain. The resource being considered is an exhaustible one.