Consider the following network representation of a transportation problem. 60 60 Des Moines 25 15 Jefferson City 9 8 Kansas City 20 8 10 40 Omaha 26 St. Louis 55 Supplies Demands The supplies, demands, and transportation costs per unit are shown on the network. What is the optimal (cost minimizing) distribution plan? Amount Jefferson City-Des Moines 0 0 Jefferson City-Kansas City 5 45 Jefferson City-St. Louis 55 440 Omaha-Des Moines 25 Omaha-Kansas City 15 Omaha-St. Louis Total 0 0 Cost ×

Suppose we are interested in reducing the carbon footprint associated with heating/cooling buildings oncampus. The functions below describe marginal costs ofCO2abatement (expressed as a function of pollution)for two buildings on the Hendrix College campus. These are hypothetical but are influenced by buildingcharacteristics like age, size, and types of usage. (This information is used for questions 1-4) MCMills = 100−10xM MCSLTC = 75−2.5xS 1. If the College pursued its abatement target by directing each building manager to cut emissions in halffor their respective building, what is the total cost of abatement? 2. If the abatement were pursued with an on-campus carbon tax of$30, would there be the same level ofabatement? Show your work and/or explain. 3. If the goal of the college is to meet the abatement target from question 1, what is the appropriate taxrate? 4. If the appropriate tax rate is used (answer from Q3), how much money can be saved compared to thecommand & control…

Environmental Economics. The equations below describe the marginal costs of abatement for three separate sources (as a function of pollution). %3D МC2 3D 24 - 2е2 МС3 %3 10 - е3/2 (Constructing a graphical presentation of the different cost functions may help) 1. What is the total cost of abatement if each source is forced to cut its pollution by half? 2. What are the cost-savings of an emissions price that achieves the same reduction as the command and control policy described in question 2?

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A city currently emits 15 million gallons (MG) of raw sewage into a lake that is beside the city. Table 12.13 shows the total costs (TC) in thousands of dollars of cleaning up the sewage to different levels, together with the total benefits (TB) of doing so. Benefits include environmental, recreational, health, and industrial benefits. Using the information in Table 12.13 calculate the marginal costs and marginal benefits of reducing sewage emissions for this City. What is the optimal level of sewage for this city? How can you tell?

Owning, operating, and maintaining an automobile carries with it private internal costs to the driver, as well as public external societal costs. List five internal and external costs

41- A colleague at work takes small amounts of IT supplies such as flash drive for her own personal use, saying that this is a tiny loss to the company. You tell her that if everyone were to take office supplies, then the loss would no longer be minimal . Your rationale expresses which of the following ethical issues: O a Property issues O bPrivacy issues Oc Accuracy issues O d Accessibility issues

Consider an upstream chemical company and a downstream agricultural producer coex- isting along a river. The chemical company produces output y, but, in the process, also generates waste by-product r that is harmful for apple production by the agricultural firm. The marginal benefit and damage functions are: MB(r) MD(r) 12 – I 2.r Determine analytically the level of waste that is generated at (i) individual benefit maxi- mizing level of production, (ii) the socially optimal level of production, and (iii) compare both allocations. Show your results in a figure.

Computer models of global climate changecaused by increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere predictnot only higher overall temperatures, but also more intense andfrequent heat waves. During the devastating European heatwave in the summer of 2003, between 35,000 and 52,000“excess deaths” occurred. Before taking specific actions toreduce carbon dioxide emissions, economists and politicians tryto estimate the costs. Should excess deaths be included as acost of inaction? If so, what value should we place on a life?