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Dr. Mateo Cordier
CEARC-OVSQ, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – Université Paris-Saclay, 78280 Guyancourt, France

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Journal article
Published: 24 August 2021 in Forests
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International policies promote renewable forms of energy to mitigate climate change. In Europe, the production of electricity using wood biomass represents one of the most popular energy alternatives. In 2012, France initiated a large-scale strategy to develop wood biomass energy. The biggest wood biomass power-plant project has been developed in the French Mediterranean area and its huge size raises several issues for the short- and long-term sustainability of local forests and associated economic sectors. The French Mediterranean forests provide four types of economic goods (private, club, common, and public goods) and multiple ecosystem services, which makes them complex to manage under an energy transition policy. In this paper, we applied three qualitative methods, namely interviews, participative workshops, and observant participation, and three conceptual models, namely (i) Ostrom’s (2010) self-organization key conditions, (ii) the types of economic goods classified according to their excludability and rivalry properties, and (iii) the ecosystem service categorization system of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005). With our methods, we show that the renewable strategy chosen in France replicates the current centralized production model based on fossil and nuclear fuels. Thus, we demonstrate that European, national, and local authorities fail to consider the multiple ecosystem services that forest management strategies should include to face the energy transition, climate change, and the other ecological challenges of the 21st century.

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Roxane Sansilvestri; Mateo Cordier; Thibault Lescuyer. Winners and Losers in Energy Transition: Study Case of Wood Biomass Power-Plants Implementation in France. Forests 2021, 12, 1139 .

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Roxane Sansilvestri, Mateo Cordier, Thibault Lescuyer. Winners and Losers in Energy Transition: Study Case of Wood Biomass Power-Plants Implementation in France. Forests. 2021; 12 (9):1139.

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Roxane Sansilvestri; Mateo Cordier; Thibault Lescuyer. 2021. "Winners and Losers in Energy Transition: Study Case of Wood Biomass Power-Plants Implementation in France." Forests 12, no. 9: 1139.

Journal article
Published: 18 January 2021 in Ecological Economics
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Green economic growth led by technological solutions is often mentioned as a solution for mitigating plastic pollution. However, economic growth appears to be in contradiction to planetary boundaries. By developing two worldwide socio-economic models, for forecasting inadequately managed plastic waste up to the year 2050 across 217 countries and territories, we demonstrate the adverse ecological impacts of the lack of regulatory processes and educational environmental programs. We used country-by-country data from the World Bank for the model estimates. The global cumulative stock of plastic waste that is inadequately managed is predicted to increase from 61–72 million metric tons (MT) in 1990 to 5109–5678 MT by 2050. Four scenario analyses told different stories: The business-as-usual (BAU) scenario, mitigation scenario 1: Capping GDP, mitigation scenario 2: Extending education, and mitigation scenario 3: Fighting corruption. In “capping GDP,” the annual amount of inadequately managed plastic waste slightly increases and reaches 64–119 million MT/year in 2050 instead of 61–110 million MT/year in the BAU scenario. In the “extending education” scenario, the amount decreases by 34% compared to the BAU scenario in 2050. In the “fighting corruption” scenario, the amount decreases by 60%. We provide further details in the country-by-country predictions

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Mateo Cordier; Takuro Uehara; Juan Baztan; Bethany Jorgensen; Huijie Yan. Plastic pollution and economic growth: The influence of corruption and lack of education. Ecological Economics 2021, 182, 106930 .

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Mateo Cordier, Takuro Uehara, Juan Baztan, Bethany Jorgensen, Huijie Yan. Plastic pollution and economic growth: The influence of corruption and lack of education. Ecological Economics. 2021; 182 ():106930.

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Mateo Cordier; Takuro Uehara; Juan Baztan; Bethany Jorgensen; Huijie Yan. 2021. "Plastic pollution and economic growth: The influence of corruption and lack of education." Ecological Economics 182, no. : 106930.

Journal article
Published: 19 March 2019 in Science of The Total Environment
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Plastics are non-biodegradable, and increasing accumulation of plastic debris in the ocean is a major cause for concern. The World Economic Forum, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and McKinsey & Company claimed in 2016 that technological innovations can solve the plastic problem. Such a claim raises an as yet unanswered question: how much technological innovation is needed and is it economically feasible? We offer answers to this question via a system dynamics model that we developed to simulate different scenarios aimed at controlling plastic debris entering the global ocean. Our results show that ocean cleanup technologies could achieve a 25% reduction in the level of plastic debris in the ocean below 2010 levels in 2030. However, this would require removing 15% of the stock of plastic debris from the ocean every year over the period 2020–2030, which equates to 135 million tons of plastic in total (metric tons). The implementation cost of such an ocean cleanup effort would amount to €492 billion-€708 billion, which represents 0.7%–1.0% of the world GDP in 2017 – this calculation is based on unit costs in €/kg estimated in The Ocean Cleanup project feasibility study. The Ocean Cleanup project alone is designed to collect 70,320 tons of plastic debris over a 10 year period. Removing 135 million tons of plastic debris would require investing in 1924 similar cleanup projects. These results help to assess the economic feasibility of removing such large volume of plastics. Moreover, our results provide quantitative confirmation that technological solutions alone are not sufficient to solve plastic pollution issues. A portfolio of diverse solutions – not only technological ones – is likely to have greater technical, political and economic feasibility. Our model shows that such a combined portfolio implemented over the period 2020–2030 could reduce the ocean plastic stock to 2013 levels (94 million tons) by 2030.

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Mateo Cordier; Takuro Uehara. How much innovation is needed to protect the ocean from plastic contamination? Science of The Total Environment 2019, 670, 789 -799.

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Mateo Cordier, Takuro Uehara. How much innovation is needed to protect the ocean from plastic contamination? Science of The Total Environment. 2019; 670 ():789-799.

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Mateo Cordier; Takuro Uehara. 2019. "How much innovation is needed to protect the ocean from plastic contamination?" Science of The Total Environment 670, no. : 789-799.

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Published: 20 November 2018
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Plastics have become increasingly dominant in the consumer marketplace since their commercial development in the 1930s and 1940s. Global plastic production reached 335 million tons in 2016, a 640% increase since 1975. In 1960, plastics made up less than 1% of municipal solid waste by mass in the United States. By 2000, this proportion increased by one order of magnitude. As a result, plastic contamination is found everywhere in the world’s oceans, coastal areas, freshwater bodies and terrestrial environments. Plastics in the marine environment are of increasing concern because of their persistence and effects on the oceans, wildlife, and, potentially, humans. A report by the MacArthur Foundation published in 2016 claimed that innovation can solve the plastic problem. However, it does not say how much innovation is needed and does not analyse if it is feasible. In this working paper, we propose to bring about answers to this question by developing an ecological-economic world model that simulates plastic waste emission by human activities, transport from land to the ocean and accumulation into the marine ecosystem. Innovations will be simulated in an economic sub-model integrated to the ecological-economic world model as one of its components. The model, in its current development stage, is capable of quantifying the impacts of innovations on the total amount of plastics accumulated in the ocean at the world scale. The ecological-economic world model is designed in Powersim following system dynamics programming. In a further work, the economic sub-model will be designed in Excel Following input-output matrix equations. Our preliminary results suggest that to reach a significant abatement of plastic in the global ocean, a panel of diverse types of solutions is required. One type of environmental measure alone will not succeed. Upstream and downstream solutions must be combined: (i) across the social-ecological system, that is, “at-the-source” but also “middle” and “end-of-pipe” solutions; (ii) as well as across the plastic contamination causal chain as well, that is, “preventive” but also “curative” solutions. Only combined solutions succeed to reduce the amount of plastic stock accumulated in the oceans since the 1950’s to the level of 2010. Our model suggests that solutions which would be able to go further and reduce plastic stocks to 50% of 2010’s level would require intense ocean cleanup. To achieve such an ambitious environmental target, 11.89% of total plastic wastes should be removed from the ocean every year between 2020 and 2030. The technical feasibility of such a solution is highly questionable knowing that current technologies remove only floating plastic at the surface of the water and that such floating plastic represent a very small percentage of all plastics accumulated in the global ocean at the surface of the water, in the water column and deposited on the seabed.

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Mateo Cordier; Takuro Uehara. Will innovation solve the global plastic contamination: how much innovation is needed for that? 2018, 1 .

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Mateo Cordier, Takuro Uehara. Will innovation solve the global plastic contamination: how much innovation is needed for that? . 2018; ():1.

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Mateo Cordier; Takuro Uehara. 2018. "Will innovation solve the global plastic contamination: how much innovation is needed for that?" , no. : 1.

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Published: 20 November 2018
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Plastics have become increasingly dominant in the consumer marketplace since their commercial development in the 1930s and 1940s. Global plastic production reached 335 million tons in 2016, a 640% increase since 1975. In 1960, plastics made up less than 1% of municipal solid waste by mass in the United States. By 2000, this proportion increased by one order of magnitude. As a result, plastic contamination is found everywhere in the world’s oceans, coastal areas, freshwater bodies and terrestrial environments. Plastics in the marine environment are of increasing concern because of their persistence and effects on the oceans, wildlife, and, potentially, humans. A report by the MacArthur Foundation published in 2016 claimed that innovation can solve the plastic problem. However, it does not say how much innovation is needed and does not analyse if it is feasible. In this working paper, we propose to bring about answers to this question by developing an ecological-economic world model that simulates plastic waste emission by human activities, transport from land to the ocean and accumulation into the marine ecosystem. Innovations will be simulated in an economic sub-model integrated to the ecological-economic world model as one of its components. The model, in its current development stage, is capable of quantifying the impacts of innovations on the total amount of plastics accumulated in the ocean at the world scale. The ecological-economic world model is designed in Powersim following system dynamics programming. In a further work, the economic sub-model will be designed in Excel Following input-output matrix equations. Our preliminary results suggest that to reach a significant abatement of plastic in the global ocean, a panel of diverse types of solutions is required. One type of environmental measure alone will not succeed. Upstream and downstream solutions must be combined: (i) across the social-ecological system, that is, “at-the-source” but also “middle” and “end-of-pipe” solutions; (ii) as well as across the plastic contamination causal chain as well, that is, “preventive” but also “curative” solutions. Only combined solutions succeed to reduce the amount of plastic stock accumulated in the oceans since the 1950’s to the level of 2010. Our model suggests that solutions which would be able to go further and reduce plastic stocks to 50% of 2010’s level would require intense ocean cleanup. To achieve such an ambitious environmental target, 11.89% of total plastic wastes should be removed from the ocean every year between 2020 and 2030. The technical feasibility of such a solution is highly questionable knowing that current technologies remove only floating plastic at the surface of the water and that such floating plastic represent a very small percentage of all plastics accumulated in the global ocean at the surface of the water, in the water column and deposited on the seabed.

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Mateo Cordier; Takuro Uehara. Will innovation solve the global plastic contamination: how much innovation is needed for that? 2018, 1 .

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Mateo Cordier, Takuro Uehara. Will innovation solve the global plastic contamination: how much innovation is needed for that? . 2018; ():1.

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Mateo Cordier; Takuro Uehara. 2018. "Will innovation solve the global plastic contamination: how much innovation is needed for that?" , no. : 1.

Articles
Published: 09 July 2018 in Economic Systems Research
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Estuaries provide advantageous sites for both harbors and fish habitats. In many countries, harbor expansion in estuaries contributed to the decline of fish populations with impacts at the global scale. Restoring these habitats is important to prevent a global biodiversity crisis but is costly and potentially unaffordable for polluters under the Polluter Pays Principle. Such affordability issues prompt decision-makers to reduce environmental targets of restoration programs. Harbor infrastructures destroy fish habitats but generate benefits for society and contribute to the public interest, raising some questions on who is responsible for environmental degradations and who can afford environmental restoration costs? One way to allocate restoration costs is to analyze the amount of harbor services consumed by economic sectors. This paper addresses these questions by computing burden sharing scenarios with an input–output matrix. These scenarios are simulated under the shared responsibility principle to distribute restoration costs among stakeholders in the Seine estuary, France.

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M. Cordier; T. Poitelon; W. Hecq. The shared environmental responsibility principle: new developments applied to the case of marine ecosystems. Economic Systems Research 2018, 31, 228 -247.

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M. Cordier, T. Poitelon, W. Hecq. The shared environmental responsibility principle: new developments applied to the case of marine ecosystems. Economic Systems Research. 2018; 31 (2):228-247.

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M. Cordier; T. Poitelon; W. Hecq. 2018. "The shared environmental responsibility principle: new developments applied to the case of marine ecosystems." Economic Systems Research 31, no. 2: 228-247.

Journal article
Published: 29 May 2018 in Sustainability
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The complexity of ecological-economic systems significantly reduces our ability to investigate their behavior and propose policies aimed at various environmental and/or economic objectives. Following recent suggestions for integrating nonlinear dynamic modeling with input-output (IO) modeling, we develop a fully dynamic ecological-economic model by integrating IO with system dynamics (SD) for better capturing critical attributes of ecological-economic systems. We also develop and evaluate various scenarios using policy impact and policy sensitivity analyses. The model and analysis are applied to the degradation of fish nursery habitats by industrial harbors in the Seine estuary (Haute-Normandie region, France). The modeling technique, dynamization, and scenarios allow us to show trade-offs between economic and ecological outcomes and evaluate the impacts of restoration scenarios and water quality improvement on the fish population.

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Takuro Uehara; Mateo Cordier; Bertrand Hamaide. Fully Dynamic Input-Output/System Dynamics Modeling for Ecological-Economic System Analysis. Sustainability 2018, 10, 1765 .

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Takuro Uehara, Mateo Cordier, Bertrand Hamaide. Fully Dynamic Input-Output/System Dynamics Modeling for Ecological-Economic System Analysis. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (6):1765.

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Takuro Uehara; Mateo Cordier; Bertrand Hamaide. 2018. "Fully Dynamic Input-Output/System Dynamics Modeling for Ecological-Economic System Analysis." Sustainability 10, no. 6: 1765.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2017 in Ecological Economics
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While environmentally extended input-output (IO) models are commonly used for capturing interactions between ecosystems and economic systems, this kind of modelling cannot reflect interactions within the ecosystem. Isard's (1968) model has been the only exception. He entered interactions occurring within the ecosystem into IO. Nevertheless, given the linearity of IO, he could only analyze environmental issues in a linear fashion. We propose an alternative that reverses Isard's model types: the economic system is modelled within the ecosystem (not the contrary), as one of the ecosystem's components. To demonstrate its feasibility, we develop an ecological-economic model by integrating conventional economic IO within system dynamics (SD). After describing the methodological issues, we “test” the IO/SD model on ecological and economic data by applying it to the destruction and restoration of the Seine Estuary, France, where Common soles live. Our model brings insight into the consideration of feedback loops in the modelling of interactions between the ecosystem and the economic system. We believe such a tool may be of help to decision makers in mixing economic and environmental issues like, in our application case, fish habitat and harbour development.SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

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Mateo Cordier; Takuro Uehara; Jeffrey Weih; Bertrand Hamaide. An Input-output Economic Model Integrated Within a System Dynamics Ecological Model: Feedback Loop Methodology Applied to Fish Nursery Restoration. Ecological Economics 2017, 140, 46 -57.

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Mateo Cordier, Takuro Uehara, Jeffrey Weih, Bertrand Hamaide. An Input-output Economic Model Integrated Within a System Dynamics Ecological Model: Feedback Loop Methodology Applied to Fish Nursery Restoration. Ecological Economics. 2017; 140 ():46-57.

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Mateo Cordier; Takuro Uehara; Jeffrey Weih; Bertrand Hamaide. 2017. "An Input-output Economic Model Integrated Within a System Dynamics Ecological Model: Feedback Loop Methodology Applied to Fish Nursery Restoration." Ecological Economics 140, no. : 46-57.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2014 in Ecosystem Services
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Monetary valuation techniques are often used for evaluating the effect of a change in ecosystem services on components of human wellbeing, even though they face several drawbacks. This paper seeks to reconcile monetary valuation techniques with methods that address ecosystem-economy interactions by developing a guiding framework that limits the use of monetary valuation to various market simulations. Simulations of scenarios of environmental measures are carried out with a semi-dynamic hybrid input-output model. The guiding framework ensures that monetary valuation techniques contribute to the understanding of the impact of economic activities on changes in ecosystems services and the feedback impact of these changes on economic activities. The framework operates according to three criteria: (i) the category of ecosystem components (intermediate products, ecosystem services, benefits obtained from the ecosystem), (ii) existence of a market, intention to exchange or possibility for restoration or preservation, and (iii) direct/indirect monetary valuation techniques. The methodology is then tested with a case-study. © 2014 Elsevier B.V.SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

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Mateo Cordier; José A. Pérez Agúndez; Walter Hecq; Bertrand Hamaide. A guiding framework for ecosystem services monetization in ecological–economic modeling. Ecosystem Services 2014, 8, 86 -96.

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Mateo Cordier, José A. Pérez Agúndez, Walter Hecq, Bertrand Hamaide. A guiding framework for ecosystem services monetization in ecological–economic modeling. Ecosystem Services. 2014; 8 ():86-96.

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Mateo Cordier; José A. Pérez Agúndez; Walter Hecq; Bertrand Hamaide. 2014. "A guiding framework for ecosystem services monetization in ecological–economic modeling." Ecosystem Services 8, no. : 86-96.