Markets Deliberation And Environment

Author : John O'Neill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136014147

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Markets, Deliberation and Environment by John O'Neill Pdf

What is the source of our environmental problems? Why is there in modern societies a persistent tendency to environmental damage? From within neoclassical economic theory there is a straightforward answer to those questions: it is because environmental goods and harms are unpriced. They come free. This position runs up against a view which runs in entirely the opposite direction, that our environmental problems have their source not in a failure to apply market norms rigorously enough, but in the very spread of these market mechanisms and norms. The source of environmental problems lies in part in the spread of markets both in real geographical terms across the globe and through the introduction of markets mechanisms and norms into spheres of life that previously have been protected from markets. In this book, John O’Neill conducts a thorough examination of these two opposing viewpoints covering a discussion of the ethical boundaries of markets, the role of private property rights in environmental protection, the nature of sustainability and the valuation of goods over time. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying courses in ecological and environmental economics.

Author : Nathaniel O. Keohane,Sheila M. Olmstead
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610916073

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Markets and the Environment, Second Edition by Nathaniel O. Keohane,Sheila M. Olmstead Pdf

"A clear grasp of economics is essential to understanding why environmental problems arise and how we can address them. ... Now thoroughly revised with updated information on current environmental policy and real-world examples of market-based instruments .... The authors provide a concise yet thorough introduction to the economic theory of environmental policy and natural resource management. They begin with an overview of environmental economics before exploring topics including cost-benefit analysis, market failures and successes, and economic growth and sustainability. Readers of the first edition will notice new analysis of cost estimation as well as specific market instruments, including municipal water pricing and waste disposal. Particular attention is paid to behavioral economics and cap-and-trade programs for carbon."--Publisher's web site.

Author : Nathaniel O. Keohane,Sheila M. Olmstead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Conservation biology
ISBN : 1610915712

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Markets and the Environment by Nathaniel O. Keohane,Sheila M. Olmstead Pdf

A clear grasp of economics is essential to understanding why environmental problems arise and how we can address them. So it is with good reason that this book has become a classic text in environmental studies since its first publication in 2007. Now thoroughly revised with updated information on current environmental policy and real?world examples of market?based instruments, the primer is more relevant than ever. The authors provide a concise yet thorough introduction to the economic theory of environmental policy and natural resource management. They begin with an overview of environmental economics before exploring topics including cost?benefit analysis, market failures and successes, and economic growth and sustainability.

Author : Graciela Chichilnisky,Geoffrey Heal
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231504470

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Environmental Markets by Graciela Chichilnisky,Geoffrey Heal Pdf

Markets are increasingly central to the resolution of environmental problems. They played a critical role in implementing the 1990 Clean Air Act of the United States, which has been instrumental in reducing acid rain in a cost-effective manner. They are also central to the global strategy adopted for limiting the emissions of greenhouse gases under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and are being used for resolving conflicts over the use of other environmental resources, particularly water. Environmental Markets: Equity and Efficiency represents the first systematic and in-depth study of the economic issues raised by this growing use of environmental markets. Focusing on the relationship between equity and efficiency—which is central to many of the debates between industrial and developing countries—the book explores the underlying economics and the possibilities for win-win solutions that benefit all parties to the problems. Graciela Chichilnisky and Geoffrey Heal have been instrumental in developing the economic understanding required for the operation of environmental markets and for promoting their use among policy makers leading to the Kyoto Protocol. Contributors to this volume include established experts from international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and academia, including Raúl Estrada-Oyuela, who chaired the negotiating committee of the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 1997 Kyoto meetings.

Author : Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy Charles D Kolstad
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Terry L. Anderson,Gary D. Libecap
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Mark Sagoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052154596X

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Price, Principle, and the Environment by Mark Sagoff Pdf

Mark Sagoff has written an engaging and provocative book about the contribution economics can make to environmental policy. Sagoff argues that economics can be helpful in designing institutions and processes through which people can settle environmental disputes. However, he contends that economic analysis fails completely when it attempts to attach value to environmental goods. It fails because preference-satisfaction has no relation to any good. Economic valuation lacks data because preferences cannot be observed. Willingness to pay is benchmarked on market price and thus may reflect producer cost not consumer benefit. Moreover, economists cannot second-guess market outcomes because they have no better information than market participants. Mark Sagoff's conclusion is that environmental policy turns on principles that are best identified and applied through political processes. Written with verve and fluency, this book will be eagerly sought out by students and professionals in environmental policy as well as informed general readers.

Author : Terry L. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429719042

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Free Market Environmentalism by Terry L. Anderson Pdf

Although there is in the United States a clear national consensus supporting the protection of the environment, advocates often profoundly disagree about the policies best designed to achieve this end. The traditional answer has been that government must intervene, through legislation and regulation of behavior, to preserve environmental values. Th

Author : Graham Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134392322

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Deliberative Democracy and the Environment by Graham Smith Pdf

Contemporary democracies are frequently criticized for failing to respond adequately to environmental problems and our political institutions are often charged with misrepresenting environmental values in decision-making processes. In this innovative volume, Graham Smith argues that the enhancement and institutionalisation of democratic deliberation will improve reflection on the wide range of environmental values that citizens hold. Drawing on theories of deliberative democracy, Smith argues that institutions need to be restructured in order to promote democratic dialogue and reflection on the plurality of environmental values. Deliberative Democracy and the Environment makes an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between democratic and green political theory. Drawing on evidence from Europe and the United States, it systematically engages with questions of institutional design.

Author : Ted Gayer,John K. Horowitz
Publisher : Now Publishers Inc
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Robyn Eckersley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:222704452

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Markets, the State and the Environment by Robyn Eckersley Pdf

Author : Thomas Sterner
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024919610

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The Market and the Environment by Thomas Sterner Pdf

Comprising 22 essays by international scholars in agriculture, engineering, environment, and economics, this anthology focuses on the environmental effectiveness of market-based policies, especially taxes, to improve the environment. Taxes levied at different stages and in different ways during a product's life-cycle are compared with other market-based instruments such as charges, subsidies, tradable emission permits, and deposit-refund systems. Environmental taxes are also compared to liability and insurance schemes, and to green labeling. Several essays concentrate on the transaction and information costs associated with market-based policy instruments. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Bouwe R. Dijkstra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024331287

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The Political Economy of Environmental Policy by Bouwe R. Dijkstra Pdf

This work asks why market instruments have not been used to their full potential in environmental policy. It uses a public choice perspective to analyse the political economy of environmental policy, emphasising the role of interest groups which have blocked the introduction of market instruments.

Author : Emmanuel Petrakis,Eftichios Sofokles Sartzetakis,Anastasios Xepapadeas
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Karin B‹ckstrand
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849806411

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Environmental Politics and Deliberative Democracy by Karin B‹ckstrand Pdf

This important new book provides an excellent critical evaluation of new modes of governance in environmental and sustainability policy. The multidisciplinary team of contributors combine fresh insights from all levels of governance all around a carefully crafted conceptual framework to advance our understanding of the effectiveness and legitimacy of new types of steering, including networks, public private partnerships, and multi-stakeholder dialogues. This is a crucial contribution to the field. Frank Biermann, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Can new modes of governance, such as public private partnerships, stakeholder consultations and networks, promote effective environmental policy performance as well as increased deliberative and participatory quality? This book argues that in academic inquiry and policy practice there has been a deliberative turn, manifested in a revitalized interest in deliberative democracy coupled with calls for novel forms of public private governance. By linking theory and practice, the contributors critically examine the legitimacy and effectiveness of new modes of governance, using a range of case studies on climate, forestry, water and food safety policies from local to global levels. Environmental Politics and Deliberative Democracy will appeal to scholars, both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as researchers of environmental politics, international relations, environmental studies and political science. It will also interest practitioners involved in the actual design and implementation of new governance modes in areas of sustainable development, food safety, forestry and climate change.