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Author : Frederick R. Anderson,Resources for the Future
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:610469513
Author : Frederick R. Anderson
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 0801821002
Author : Johannes Baptist Opschoor,R. Kerry Turner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0792326016
This text contains a collection of papers on economic incentives and environmental policies which result from the authors' joint research work in the program Environment, Science and Society, conducted under the auspices of the European Science Foundation.
Author : National Academy of Public Administration
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Pollution
ISBN : 0964687402
Focusing on the practical aspects of using economic incentives to achieve environmental goals, this book analyzes the design and implementation of market based programs and identifies critical issues for creating successful programs in the future. The book examines the conditions in which market incentives are most useful and probes the important new roles of both government and the private sector. It highlights the administrative, institutional, organizational, and informational requirements for successful operation of the programs, and it especially stresses the importance of program evaluation. This analysis is based on case studies of four programs at different levels of government--local, state, federal, and overseas--that use different tools--credit trading, direct taxes, variable fee structures, and refunds: the air credit trading program in the Los Angeles metropolitan area; the national pollution charge system of Russia; the recycling initiative of King County, Washington; and the deposit refund system of Michigan. Distributed for the National Academy of Public Administration
Author : Albert L. Nichols
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037606139
This book makes a major and original contribution to the "incentives vs. standards" debate by showing how different targets (the points at which incentives are applied) affect the ability of regulation to provide environmental protection at lowest possible cost.
Author : Jürg Klarer,Patrick Francis,Jim McNicholas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9638454660
Author : F.J. Dietz,Herman R.J. Vollebergh,Jan L. de Vries
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401101134
Although economists have long advocated the use of economic instruments in the implementation of environmental policy, they have only recently gained acceptance. There is a growing consensus within the European Union that both Member States and the environment would benefit from the use of such incentive-based economic instruments. Environment, Incentives and the Common Market has been written by members of the Study Group on the Environment and Economics of the National Environmental Forum, which includes economists and social scientists from all the major Dutch universities and research institutes. The book covers a wide range of topics on the use of taxation and tradeable permits in a variety of abatement policies. It concludes with comments on political feasibility.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Air quality
ISBN : 9781428900943
Author : Steven Kelman
Publisher : Praeger Pub Text
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Science
ISBN : 0865690820
Sets forth in a straightforward and sensible way the philosophical reasons for the non-economist's skepticism of the economist's view of the world. Its relevance extends beyond environmental issues to other areas where microeconomic theory is being applied to public policy. Kelman cites results to confirm his view that both opponents and supporters of economic incentives have important philosophical concerns. He takes the role of an advocate of the use of incentives in formulating an environmental policy. He also discusses political strategy from the point of view of the policy entrepreneur who is trying to get ideas adopted. Economists and non-economists alike will welcome this book as a bridge over a perceptual gap in an important area of policymaking.
Author : United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722735368
Economic Incentives: Options for Environmental Protection
Author : Ian Wills
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000249347
Coordinating our use of the earth's natural resources is not easy. Resource users are many, their goals diverse, and their impacts on the environment often uncertain. How we use those resources depends on the signals and incentives we receive, from either the market or our governments. These systems encourage certain uses of natural resources, but they are not perfect. We harm the environment not out of malice, but because we do not know the consequences of our actions, or the incentives for harm are too great to ignore. Economics and the Environment argues that, by lowering the cost and improving the quality of the necessary signals and incentives, we can better reconcile our diverse interests in the environment. It introduces an economic way of thinking about environmental issues, without assuming a background in economics: * how the economy and the environment interact * how resource use is coordinated in ideal market and planned economies * the barriers to ideal signalling and incentives in real markets and real government planning * the economist's tools for dealing with natural resource issues * the uncertainty and complexity of environmental issues: climate change, water rights, air pollution and overharvesting of common resources. This second edition of Economics and the Environment is fully updated and includes new material on sustainability, valuation of environmental changes, the prospects for international cooperation under the Kyoto Protocol and the problems of defining and enforcing measures to protect biodiversity. It offers students in both economics and environmental studies programs a coherent framework for understanding our major environmental problems. 'Ian Wills succeeds in providing a fresh perspective . . . a very interesting and informative textbook.' Economic Record
Author : Benjamin Ouvrard,Anne Stenger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786303516
The economic protection of the quality of the environment took shape properly in the middle of the 20th Century when various economic instruments were proposed to policymakers. Today, protecting the environment is essential, as evidenced in the rise in temperatures, the melting of the icecaps, the disappearance of animal species, etc. Moreover, with recent advances in other disciplines (notably in psychology), economists are turning more and more towards non-monetary forms of incentive. However, questions concerning the effectiveness of these forms arise. Incentives and Environmental Policies deals with the role of the economy in protecting the environment by revisiting traditional economic instruments and pursuing an advanced consideration of the role of new forms of incentive. It appears that, in order to strive towards the best possible environmental quality, policymakers will have to take into account the future of many combinations of socially acceptable incentives.
Author : Cary Coglianese,Jennifer Nash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136525070
Leveraging the Private Sector offers the first sustained analysis of public and private sector initiatives designed to encourage firms and industries to use their own management expertise to improve their environmental performance. Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash bring together original empirical studies by the nation?s leading experts on recent public and private sector experiments. Do management-based strategies lead to improved environmental outcomes? What kinds of strategies hold the most promise? Leveraging the Private Sector addresses these questions through studies of state pollution prevention planning laws, private sector purchasing requirements, and federal risk management regulations, among others. The contributors show that efforts to leverage private sector experience and knowledge can have a distinctive contribution in the future of environmental protection. Ultimately, a firm's broader management practices shape its environmental performance. Public and private sector strategies that seek to influence these practices directly can help bring about further environmental improvements. This book breaks new ground by investigating a new and promising approach for advancing the economy and the environment.
Author : European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Arbejdsmiljø
ISBN : UOM:39015017432058
Author : Philip E. Graves
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781466518018
Rigorous, yet written in a way that facilitates understanding of complex material, Environmental Economics: An Integrated Approach provides practical and working knowledge of how environmental policy analysis is developed. This is a true textbook, detailing the tools required to conduct that analysis and also discusses weaknesses in the existing methods, underlining areas for future improvement. This approach allows readers to get a sense of what is known and what is not known about environmental economics. The book discusses why we have environmental problems and how we would optimally react if we had perfect information about environmental benefits and costs. It then describes methods in use—and their flaws—to acquire the information necessary to enact environmental policy. The book starts with a categorization of goods types, concluding that environmental problems stem from non-excludable goods that are either rivalrous or non-rivalrous. The author introduces the Coase Theorem in the first chapter, then details how households and firms would behave when facing a zero price on pollution versus a price on pollution set equal to presumed known marginal damages. He connects the economic system with the environmental system by aggregating up from individual decisions to the aggregate market system and the aggregate environmental quality. But, of course, the information available is rarely perfect. Clarifying the information difficulties faced by households, firms, and policy makers, the author recognizes that there is both a knowledge gap and a communication gap. He then covers the methods policy makers employ in an attempt to gain sufficient insight into marginal benefits and marginal costs to properly set a marginal damage tax, properly limit emission rights, or properly provide public goods. The book then examines the nature of these methods and their likely bias, before concluding that surviving the next 50 to 100 years will lead to a world of ever-improving levels of economic and environmental goods—but the sobering qualifier is that without proper environmental policies there is a significant probability that our species will not be able to reach that desirable outcome.
