Environmental Policy Between Regulation And Market

Author : C. Jeanrenaud
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783034890120

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Environmental Policy Between Regulation and Market by C. Jeanrenaud Pdf

Environmental policies have traditionally relied on direct controls and on government investment to protect natural resources. Today, the drawbacks and impediments to this approach are evident: heavy burdens borne by companies and the community, complex regulations, a danger of legislative inflation, difficulties in meeting the goals set, to name a few. In response, the environmental authorities in many countries have begun to reassess the efficacy of their programs, with the result that market incentives and voluntary agreements with companies or branches of industry have been added to the arsenal of traditional environmental protection measures. There are great expectations for new economic instruments, which offer the twofold advantage of giving companies more freedom in the choice of means, and of increasing the chances for meeting goals in a more cost-effective way. The authors of this book analyse these instruments - green taxes, tradeable permits, covenants, joint implementation, internationally tradeable quotas - from the point of view of costeffectiveness, their ability to achieve environmental goals, and public and corporate acceptability. They endeavour to determine on the basis of experience to date, whether these instruments are living up to the hopes placed in them.

Author : C Jeanrenaud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3034890133

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Environmental Policy Between Regulation and Market by C Jeanrenaud Pdf

Author : Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy Charles D Kolstad
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195189650

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Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation by Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy Charles D Kolstad Pdf

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Author : Ted Gayer,John K. Horowitz
Publisher : Now Publishers Inc
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781933019376

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Market-based Approaches to Environmental Regulation by Ted Gayer,John K. Horowitz Pdf

Market-based Approaches to Environmental Regulation reviews the economics literature of market-based environmental regulations and design issues for environmental taxes and cap-and-trade systems. It begins by reviewing the economics literature on the theory of market-based environmental regulations. It then goes on to cover design issues for environmental taxes and cap-and-trade systems. Market-based Approaches to Environmental Regulation also discusses the U.S. experience with a number of regulatory approaches that are commonly characterized as market-based and describes the mix of market and non-market instruments that characterize these policies. Market-based Approaches to Environmental Regulation will be of interest to all researchers and practitioners in the field of environmental regulation.

Author : Benjamin Richardson
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041117359

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Environmental Regulation Through Financial Organisations:Comparative Perspectives on the Industrialised Nations by Benjamin Richardson Pdf

This book takes a comparative perspective of practice in the European Union, North America, Japan and Australasia, arguing that existing legal reforms to promote sustainable development are unlikely to be successful unless environmental policy can be diffused and embedded in the financial services sector. This sector plays a crucial role in creating the financial conditions that allow much economic development to proceed. Financial markets are already highly regulated in pursuance of various public policy objectives, and there is scope to adapt existing regulation to incorporate environmental aspects into the financial services sector. In terms of specific reforms, the book focuses on the role of corporate environmental reporting, economic instruments and liability rules to provide a proper context for engaging financial organisations with the environment, as well as reforms to the system of prudential regulation that currently governs this sector. Beyond the focus on the financial services sector, the book raises complex questions regarding the relationship between the state and market institutions in environmental policy, and will appeal to scholars from a wide range of disciplines interested in problems of environmental governance.

Author : Imad A. Moosa,Vikash Ramiah
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781782549246

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The Costs and Benefits of Environmental Regulation by Imad A. Moosa,Vikash Ramiah Pdf

øThe authors present an extensive survey of the empirical evidence on the determinants of environmental performance as well as the effects of environmental regulation on the costs of production, plant location, firm-level productivity, stock prices and

Author : Terry L. Anderson,Gary D. Libecap
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107010222

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Environmental Markets by Terry L. Anderson,Gary D. Libecap Pdf

Environmental Markets explains the prospects of using markets to improve environmental quality and resource conservation. No other book focuses on a property rights approach using environmental markets to solve environmental problems. This book compares standard approaches to these problems using governmental management, regulation, taxation, and subsidization with a market-based property rights approach. This approach is applied to land, water, wildlife, fisheries, and air and is compared to governmental solutions. The book concludes by discussing tougher environmental problems such as ocean fisheries and the global atmosphere, emphasizing that neither governmental nor market solutions are a panacea.

Author : Emmanuel Petrakis,Eftichios Sofokles Sartzetakis,Anastasios Xepapadeas
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025111803

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Environmental Regulation and Market Power by Emmanuel Petrakis,Eftichios Sofokles Sartzetakis,Anastasios Xepapadeas Pdf

Emissions taxes, tradeable emission permits and voluntary compliance policies are becoming the instruments of choice in controlling environmental problems at the national and international level. This text uses research in order to appraise their efficiency in varying market conditions.

Author : Francesco Gullì
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781447147275

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Pollution Under Environmental Regulation in Energy Markets by Francesco Gullì Pdf

Pollution Under Environmental Regulation in Energy Markets provides a study of environmental regulation when energy markets are imperfectly competitive. This theoretical treatment focuses on three relevant cases of energy markets. First, the residential space heating sector where hybrid regulation such as taxation and emissions trading together are possible. Second, the electricity market where transactions are organized in the form of multi-period auctions. Third, namely natural gas (input) and electricity (output) markets where there is combined imperfect competition in vertical related energy markets. The development of free or low carbon technologies supported by energy policies, aiming at increasing security of supply, is also explored whilst considering competition policies that reduce market power in energy markets thus improving market efficiency. Pollution Under Environmental Regulation in Energy Markets discusses the key issues of whether imperfect competition can lessen the ability of environmental policy to reduce pollution and/or to minimize the cost of meeting environmental targets. Policymakers, analysts and researchers gain a thorough understanding of the performance of environmental policy from Pollution Under Environmental Regulation in Energy Markets leading to better design of simulation models of performance and costs of environmental regulation.

Author : Richard F. Kosobud,Jennifer M. Zimmerman
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0442024835

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Market-based Approaches to Environmental Policy by Richard F. Kosobud,Jennifer M. Zimmerman Pdf

Author : Daniel J. Fiorino
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780262062565

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The New Environmental Regulation by Daniel J. Fiorino Pdf

Winner, 2007 Louis Brownlow Award presented by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and 2006 Best Book in Environmental Management and Policy, American Society for Public Administration. Environmental regulation in the United States has succeeded, to a certain extent, in solving the problems it was designed to address; air, water, and land, are indisputably cleaner and in better condition than they would be without the environmental controls put in place since 1970. But Daniel Fiorino argues in The New Environmental Regulationthat—given recent environmental, economic, and social changes—it is time for a new, more effective model of environmental problem solving. Fiorino provides a comprehensive but concise overview of U.S. environmental regulation—its history, its rationale, and its application—and offers recommendations for a more collaborative, flexible, and performance-based alternative. Traditional environmental regulation was based on the increasingly outdated assumption that environmental protection and business are irreversibly at odds. The new environmental regulation Fiorino describes is based on performance rather than on a narrow definition of compliance and uses such policy instruments as market incentives and performance measurement. It takes into consideration differences in the willingness and capabilities of different firms to meet their environmental obligations, and it encourages innovation by allowing regulated industries, especially the better performers, more flexibility in how they achieve environmental goals. Fiorino points to specific programs—including the 33/50 Program, innovative permitting, and the use of covenants as environmental policy instruments in the Netherlands—that have successfully pioneered these new strategies. By bringing together such a wide range of research and real world examples, Fiorino has created an invaluable resource for practitioners and scholars and an engaging text for environmental policy courses.

Author : Robyn Eckersley
Publisher : Macmillan Education AU
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0732930960

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Markets, the State, and the Environment by Robyn Eckersley Pdf

A reference book consisting mainly of revised versions of selected papers presented at a workshop on 'Bureaucracy, Markets and the Environment', held in October 1992 at Monash University. Critically examines the range of tools for environmental protection available to governments. Provides a set of principles and recommendations to guide environmental policy makers and various contributors assess the various instruments for environmental protection against a range of criteria. Considers developments in environmental management in Europe, US and Australia. Includes an index. The author has also written 'Environmentalism and Political Theory'.

Author : Klaus Bosselmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999-08-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041197273

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Environmental Justice and Market Mechanisms:Key Challenges for Environmental Laws and Policy by Klaus Bosselmann Pdf

This book examines the obstacles to achieving environmental justice in the context of neo-liberal economic systems founded upon deregulation, privatization and the use of market mechanisms as a policy tool. The book explores definitions and policy dimensions of environmental justice and market mechanisms. For some, environmental justice, social justice and ecological sustainability represent the new yardstick against which all concepts of environmental law and policy are to be measured. For others, the market economy, whether free or regulated, marks the starting-point for any strategy of environmental protection. This book is the first to investigate the link between these two approaches, measuring market-based tools of environmental law such as tradable permits and ecotaxes against the requirements of environmental justice. Based on papers delivered at a major international conference held in March 1998, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, the book outlines the global context of the tensions between environmental justice and market-based instruments, focusing on the issue of international trade liberalization. It reports on experiences in a range of countries and regions: the United States, the European Union, Central and Eastern Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Despite the variety of approaches and experiences, all the countries have been trying to adjust their environmental policies to the challenges of deregulation on the one hand and environmental justice on the other. The book concludes with a call to transcend the dichotomy between regulation and the market, and suggests it might be more realistic to perceive environmental policy as a `new deal', a combined effort of the state and the market in which environmental justice provides the overall normative framework.

Author : Peter Berck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351769563

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The Theory and Practice of Command and Control in Environmental Policy by Peter Berck Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. Economists have had increasing success in arguing the merits of market-based approaches to environmental problems. By making polluting expensive, market-based approaches provide polluters with incentives to clean up, rather than mandates to stop polluting. These approaches include pollution taxes, transferable emissions permits and subsidies for pollution abatement. The purpose of this volume is to explore the situations where Command and Control (CAC) may not be all bad, and in fact might even have some advantages over market-based instruments (MBI).

Author : David Vogel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0674044681

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Trading Up by David Vogel Pdf

Health, safety, and environmental regulations have been traditionally perceived as distinct entities from trade policy, yet today they have become intertwined on a global scale. In this pioneering work, David Vogel integrates environmental, consumer, and trade policy, and explicitly challenges the conventional wisdom that trade liberalization and agreements to promote free trade invariably undermine national health, safety, and environmental standards. Vogel demonstrates that liberal trade policies often produce precisely the opposite effect: that of strengthening regulatory standards. The most comprehensive account of trade and regulation on a global scale, this book analyzes the regulatory dimensions of all major international and regional trade agreements and treaties, including GATT, NAFTA, the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States, and the treaties that created the European Community and Union. He explores in depth some of the most important trade and regulatory conflicts, including the GATT tuna-dolphin dispute, the EC's beef hormone ban, the Danish bottle case, and the debate in the United States over the regulatory implications of both NAFTA and GATT. This timely book unravels the increasingly important and contentious relationship between trade and environmental, health, and safety standards, paying particular attention to the politics that underlie trade and regulatory linkages. Trading Up is essential reading for the business community, policymakers, environmentalists, consumer interest groups, political scientists, lawyers, and economists.