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Title: L'economia de la carn: creixement insostenible
Author: Esquius Espinal, David
Tutor: Eizaguirre Anglada, Santiago  
Abstract: In this bachelor's degree final project the problem of the meat's economy and its growth is analyzed, emphasizing the negative effects derived from its production and consumption ¿also known as externalities- and the solutions that can be applied in order to mitigate the problem. To contextualize, the project shows the evolution of the economic thought in relation to the sustainability in the use of resources and the limits to growth, in order to understand the different debates that have taken place from the classical approaches from 19th century to the birth of the most recent approaches in 20th century like the environmental economics or ecological economics. In this project the evolution of the livestock sector and the growth in production and consumption at global level is analyzed. This growth is clearly contradictory with the negative externalities present in livestock sector and its high environmental and economic impact. Calculations of emissions and costs are carried out at kg of meat level. Finally, the project shows that beyond consumption¿s reduction, models and strategies like the circular economy and the ecological livestock production are essential in mitigating the negative externalities, making more efficient the production and achieving a more sustainable meat's economy. The results of a new simulation shows the environmental benefits of greenhouse gases reduction when combining classical economic solutions like taxes to reduce demand with these new models and ecological strategies.
Keywords: organic livestock production
negative externalites
sustainability
meat's demand
linear multiple regression
internalisation of costs
circular economy
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis
Issue Date: 1-Jan-2019
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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