Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 953:
Hazardous Waste Management in South African Mining ; A CGE Analysis of the Economic Impacts
Manfred Wiebelt
Abstract: There is no doubt that an improved hazardous waste
management in mining and mineral processing will reduce environmental and
health risks in South Africa. However, skeptics fear that waste reduction,
appropriate treatment and disposal are not affordable within the current
economic circumstances, neither from an economic nor from a social point of
view. This paper mainly deals with the first aspect and touches upon the
second. It investigates the short-run and long-run sectoral impacts of an
environmental tax on hazardous waste in South African mining using an
open-economy multisectoral general equilibrium model. The results bear out
the expectation that the possibilities for shifting higher production costs
are limited in an open economy. Moreover, the results show that the brunt
of adjustment of an isolated approach towards hazardous waste management
has to be beared by black workers.
Keywords: Environmental management, mining and minerals processing, CGE analysis, South Africa; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: D58; Q2; (follow links to similar papers)
25 pages, October 1999
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