Environmental Law Policy And Economics

Author : Nicholas Askounes Ashford,Charles C. Caldart
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1125 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 9780262012386

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Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics by Nicholas Askounes Ashford,Charles C. Caldart Pdf

The past twenty-five years have seen a significant evolution in environmental policy, with new environmental legislation and substantive amendments to earlier laws, significant advances in environmental science, and changes in the treatment of science (and scientific uncertainty) by the courts. This book offers a detailed discussion of the important issues in environmental law, policy, and economics, tracing their development over the past few decades through an examination of environmental law cases and commentaries by leading scholars. The authors focus on pollution, addressing both pollution control and prevention, but also emphasize the evaluation, design, and use of the law to stimulate technical change and industrial transformation, arguing that there is a need to address broader issues of sustainable development. Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics,which grew out of courses taught by the authors at MIT, treats the traditional topics covered in most classes in environmental law and policy, including common law and administrative law concepts and the primary federal legislation. But it goes beyond these to address topics not often found in a single volume: the information-based obligations of industry, enforcement of environmental law, market-based and voluntary alternatives to traditional regulation, risk assessment, environmental economics, and technological innovation and diffusion. Countering arguments found in other texts that government should play a reduced role in environmental protection, this book argues that clear, stringent legal requirements--coupled with flexible means for meeting them--and meaningful stakeholder participation are necessary for bringing about environmental improvements and technologicial transformations.

Author : Klaus Mathis,Bruce R. Huber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319509327

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Environmental Law and Economics by Klaus Mathis,Bruce R. Huber Pdf

This anthology discusses important issues surrounding environmental law and economics and provides an in-depth analysis of its use in legislation, regulation and legal adjudication from a neoclassical and behavioural law and economics perspective. Environmental issues raise a vast range of legal questions: to what extent is it justifiable to rely on markets and continued technological innovation, especially as it relates to present exploitation of scarce resources? Or is it necessary for the state to intervene? Regulatory instruments are available to create and maintain a more sustainable society: command and control regulations, restraints, Pigovian taxes, emission certificates, nudging policies, etc. If regulation in a certain legal field is necessary, which policies and methods will most effectively spur sustainable consumption and production in order to protect the environment while mitigating any potential negative impact on economic development? Since the related problems are often caused by scarcity of resources, economic analysis of law can offer remarkable insights for their resolution. Part I underlines the foundations of environmental law and economics. Part II analyses the effectiveness of economic instruments and regulations in environmental law. Part III is dedicated to the problems of climate change. Finally, Part IV focuses on tort and criminal law. The twenty-one chapters in this volume deliver insights into the multifaceted debate surrounding the use of economic instruments in environmental regulation in Europe.

Author : Michael G. Faure,Roy A. Partain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108429481

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Environmental Law and Economics by Michael G. Faure,Roy A. Partain Pdf

A detailed overview of the law-and-economics methodology developed and employed by environmental lawyers and policymakers.

Author : T. Swanson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780762308880

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Introduction to the Law and Economics of Environmental Policy by T. Swanson Pdf

"An Introduction to the Law and Economics of Environmental Policy" emphasises the importance of institutional design in addressing social problems. Three important issues concerning institutional design are: policies, instruments, and enforcement. This volume surveys each of the issues, and emphasises the common themes arising in optimal institutional design. These themes include the cost of complex institutional design, and the role of private institutions attaining social objects. This book will be particularly useful to law schools, departments of government, policy or economics, environmental managers and insurance companies.

Author : Anthony Heyes
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 1840643390

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The Law and Economics of the Environment by Anthony Heyes Pdf

This outstanding book focuses on how economics can contribute to the design, implementation and appraisal of legal systems that create the 'right' incentives for environmental protection. The sixteen original and specially commissioned contributions - written by some of the leading names in their field - span many of the important areas of contemporary interest and employ case study material combined with theoretical, empirical and experimental research. The book addresses many topical issues including: the fundamental notions of property rights and social norms; the design and implementation of civil liability regimes; the use of criminal law as an instrument of environmental policy; the role that citizen suits, self-monitoring and self-enforcement could and should play in the implementation of law; the international harmonisation of environmental law; and the treatment of environmental damages in courts. Cutting-edge economic technique is motivated by, and articulates with, real and pressing policy debates. The contributors refer to a range of legal cases and policy decisions, and draw out a host of policy implications and prescriptions for settings as diverse as Superfund reform in the US and the harmonisation of landfill regulations in the European Union. By combining incisive overviews of the latest thinking and results, complemented by original analysis, The Law and Economics of the Environment will appeal to researchers and students of the environment, law and economics, policy practitioners and those with an interest in knowing what constitutes 'good' environmental law.

Author : Luigi Campiglio
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822018884767

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The Environment After RIO:International Law and Economics by Luigi Campiglio Pdf

Comprises 19 papers which are revised versions of papers presented to the Congress on the environment after Rio, held at Courmayeur, Italy in 1993. The papers are grouped under four themes: the Rio Conference between policy and law; declarations and conventions adopted at Rio; prospects for the future in light of Agenda 21 and evolving international environmental; and environment, development and interdependence.

Author : Melissa K. Scanlan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786434524

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Law and Policy for a New Economy by Melissa K. Scanlan Pdf

This book makes the case for a New Environmentalism, and using a systems change approach, takes the reader through ideas for reorienting the economy. It addresses the laws and policies needed to support the emergence of a new economy across a variety of major areas – from energy to food, across common pool resources, and shifting investments to capitalize locally-connected and mission-driven businesses. The authors take the approach that the challenges are much broader than setting parameters around pollution, and go to the heart of the dominant global political economy. It explores the values needed to transform our current economic system into a new economy supportive of ecological integrity, social justice, and vibrant democracy.

Author : Richard Rexford Wayne Brooks,Nathaniel O. Keohane,Douglas A. Kysar
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 1848441029

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Economics of Environmental Law by Richard Rexford Wayne Brooks,Nathaniel O. Keohane,Douglas A. Kysar Pdf

The economic approach to environmental law and policy has become the dominant framework for analyzing pollution, resource management and many other environmental challenges throughout the world. This two-volume set presents essential articles from both the leading edge of methodological innovation in environmental law and economics and the bedrock of theory upon which all such innovations are built. The editors' extensive introduction contextualizes the selected papers, highlighting the central theoretical and empirical challenges facing future advancement of this discipline. An impressive collection that is indispensable to policymakers, scholars and those with an interest in the developments in this ever-important field.

Author : PAUL. MULDOON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 177255572X

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INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY IN CANADA. by PAUL. MULDOON Pdf

Author : Alyson C. Flournoy,David M. Driesen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139486866

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Beyond Environmental Law by Alyson C. Flournoy,David M. Driesen Pdf

This book offers a vision for the third generation of environmental law designed to enhance its ability to protect our environment. The book presents two core proposals, an Environmental Legacy Act to preserve a defined environmental legacy for future generations and an Environmental Competition Statute to spark movement to new clean technologies. The first proposal would require, for the first time, that the federal government define an environmental legacy that it must preserve for future generations. The second would establish a market competition to maximize environmental protection. The balance of the book provides complementary proposals and analysis. The first generation of environmental law sought broad protection of health and the environment in a fairly fragmented way. The second sought to enhance environmental law's efficiency through cost-benefit analysis and market mechanisms. These proposals seek to create a broader, more creative approach to solving environmental problems.

Author : Benjamin J. Richardson,Yves Le Bouthillier,Heather McLeod-Kilmurray,Stepan Wood
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781849802321

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Climate Law and Developing Countries by Benjamin J. Richardson,Yves Le Bouthillier,Heather McLeod-Kilmurray,Stepan Wood Pdf

'The phenomenon of anthropogenic climate change has become of critical importance to all countries. However, while the majority of developing countries contribute the least to global greenhouse gas emissions, they will generally bear the major burden of the social, environmental and economic impacts of climate change imposed upon them by developed countries. This cutting-edge book contains outstanding contributions by scholars from around the world on the need to expand the range of legal and policy mechanisms and strategies required to bridge the gaps between the north and the south to achieve global climate justice.' - Ben Boer, University of Sydney and former Co-director of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law This timely book examines the legal and policy challenges in international, regional and national settings, faced by developing countries in mitigating and adapting to climate change. With contributions from over twenty international scholars from developing and developed countries, the book tackles both long-standing concerns and current controversies. It considers the positions of developing countries in the negotiation of a new international legal regime to replace the Kyoto Protocol and canvasses various domestic issues, including implementation of CDM projects, governance of adaptation measures and regulation of the biofuels industry. Through a unique focus on the developing world, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding current challenges and future directions of climate law.

Author : Keith H. Hirokawa,Jessica Owley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 1585762369

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Environmental Law, Disrupted by Keith H. Hirokawa,Jessica Owley Pdf

Author : B. Dente
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401585040

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Environmental Policy in Search of New Instruments by B. Dente Pdf

Environmental policy is undergoing a dramatic transformation. The problems connected with global change, the need for preventative action, and the growing importance of non-source pollution call for new courses of action and new institutional arrangements. In this situation, it is fairly obvious that both the traditional command and control policy instruments and the more modern financial and economic instruments are increasingly under stress. This volume deliberately aims to break new ground in providing the conceptual tools necessary for the next generation of environmental policies. In doing so, it covers a wide interdisciplinary range, from public policy analysis to international law, and draws upon much international experience, well reflected by the mixed composition of the contributors. On the basis of a shared theoretical framework, the book explores the potential of new policy instruments, such as policy evaluation or mediation, proposes alternative institutional arrangements for dealing with the issues, classifies existing instruments, and illuminates the process through which old and new tools can be set into operation.

Author : Richard L. Revesz,Robert N. Stavins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : PSU:000062621861

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Environmental Law and Policy by Richard L. Revesz,Robert N. Stavins Pdf

This chapter for the Handbook of Law and Economics provides an economic perspective of environmental law and policy. We examine the ends of environmental policy, that is, the setting of goals and targets, beginning with normative issues, notably the Kaldor-Hicks criterion and the related method of assessment known as benefit-cost analysis. We examine this analytical method in detail, including its theoretical foundations and empirical methods of estimation of compliance costs and environmental benefits. We review critiques of benefit-cost analysis, and examine alternative approaches to analyzing the goals of environmental policies. We examine the means of environmental policy, that is, the choice of specific policy instruments, beginning with an examination of potential criteria for assessing alternative instruments, with particular focus on cost-effectiveness. The theoretical foundations and experiential highlights of individual instruments are reviewed, including conventional, command-and-control mechanisms, market-based instruments, and liability rules. Three cross-cutting issues receive attention: uncertainty; technological change; and distributional considerations. We identify normative lessons in regard to design, implementation, and the identification of new applications, and we examine positive issues: the historical dominance of command-and-control; the prevalence in new proposals of tradeable permits allocated without charge; and the relatively recent increase in attention given to market-based instruments. We also examine the question of how environmental responsibility is and should be allocated among the various levels of government. We provide a positive review of the responsibilities of Federal, state, and local levels of government in the environmental realm, plus a normative assessment of this allocation of regulatory responsibility. We focus on three arguments that have been made for Federal environmental regulation: competition among political jurisdictions and the race to the bottom; transboundary environmental problems; and public choice and systematic bias.

Author : David M. Driesen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0262541394

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The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law by David M. Driesen Pdf

A study showing that environmentally beneficial technical innovation would be more effective than economic efficiency as the organizing principle of environmental public policy.