Pollution And Policy

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Newnes
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780080964522

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Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics by Anonim Pdf

Every decision about energy involves its price and cost. The price of gasoline and the cost of buying from foreign producers; the price of nuclear and hydroelectricity and the costs to our ecosystems; the price of electricity from coal-fired plants and the cost to the atmosphere. Giving life to inventions, lifestyle changes, geopolitical shifts, and things in-between, energy economics is of high interest to Academia, Corporations and Governments. For economists, energy economics is one of three subdisciplines which, taken together, compose an economic approach to the exploitation and preservation of natural resources: energy economics, which focuses on energy-related subjects such as renewable energy, hydropower, nuclear power, and the political economy of energy resource economics, which covers subjects in land and water use, such as mining, fisheries, agriculture, and forests environmental economics, which takes a broader view of natural resources through economic concepts such as risk, valuation, regulation, and distribution Although the three are closely related, they are not often presented as an integrated whole. This Encyclopedia has done just that by unifying these fields into a high-quality and unique overview. The only reference work that codifies the relationships among the three subdisciplines: energy economics, resource economics and environmental economics. Understanding these relationships just became simpler! Nobel Prize Winning Editor-in-Chief (joint recipient 2007 Peace Prize), Jason Shogren, has demonstrated excellent team work again, by coordinating and steering his Editorial Board to produce a cohesive work that guides the user seamlessly through the diverse topics This work contains in equal parts information from and about business, academic, and government perspectives and is intended to serve as a tool for unifying and systematizing research and analysis in business, universities, and government

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264257474

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The Economic Consequences of Outdoor Air Pollution by OECD Pdf

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the economic consequences of outdoor air pollution in the coming decades, focusing on the impacts on mortality, morbidity, and changes in crop yields as caused by high concentrations of pollutants.

Author : S. Jayakumar,Tommy Koh,Robert Beckman,Hao Duy Phan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781784715793

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Transboundary Pollution by S. Jayakumar,Tommy Koh,Robert Beckman,Hao Duy Phan Pdf

This important new book provides a comprehensive overview of the international legal principles governing transboundary pollution. In doing so, the experts writing in this book examine the practical applications of the State responsibility doctrine in

Author : Nicholas Askounes Ashford,Charles C. Caldart
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1125 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Charles O. Jones
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1978-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822974185

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Clean Air by Charles O. Jones Pdf

Clean Air begins and ends with a vivid case study of air pollution at the Clairton coke works, the largest such facility in the world. Against this background, Jones analyzes the development of pollution control policy beyond capability. He describes normal policy development as the gradual temporization of proposals, but that air pollution control deviated from the norm because of widespread public demand in the late 1960s for unrealistic controls. Jones's study further examines the development and implementation of policy at three levels-local, state and federal.

Author : Ernesto Sánchez-Triana,Santiago Enriquez,Javaid Afzal
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464802355

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Cleaning Pakistan’s Air by Ernesto Sánchez-Triana,Santiago Enriquez,Javaid Afzal Pdf

The harm to Pakistanis’ health, economy, and environment from urban air pollution is among the highest in South Asia, exceeding several high-profile causes of mortality and morbidity in Pakistan. This report details a broad spectrum of research on Pakistan’s air quality management challenges and presents concrete steps to achieve improvements.

Author : Peter Berck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351769570

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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 : Kent E. Portney
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780803942226

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Controversial Issues In Environmental Policy by Kent E. Portney Pdf

Most controversies in environmental policy are rooted in clashes of values involving science and technology versus humanism, economic efficiency versus humanism, the role of nature in society and the role of government in society. The author discusses how America makes environmental policy - at the Federal and State levels as well as their enforcement agencies designed to protect and regulate at the same time. Portney examines legislation, public opinion, implementation or non-implementation relative to the debates over water, air and soil management.

Author : Michael Kraft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781317348627

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Environmental Policy and Politics by Michael Kraft Pdf

Covering global threats such as climate change, population growth, and loss of biodiversity, as well as national, state, and local problems of environmental pollution, energy use, and natural resource use and conservation, Environmental Policy and Politics provides a comprehensive overview of U.S. policy-making processes, the legislative and administrative settings for policy decisions, the role of interest groups and public opinion in environmental politics, and the public policies that result. It helps readers understand modern environmental policy and its implications, including the need for a comprehensive and integrated approach to problem solving.

Author : Barry L. Johnson,Maureen Y. Lichtveld
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781498799461

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Environmental Policy and Public Health by Barry L. Johnson,Maureen Y. Lichtveld Pdf

As with the first edition, this second edition describes how environmental health policies are developed, the statutes and other policies that have evolved to address public health concerns associated with specific environmental hazards, and the public health foundations of the policies. It lays out policies for what is considered the major environmental physical hazards to human health. Specifically, the authors describe hazards from air, water, food, hazardous substances, and wastes. To this list the authors have added the additional concerns from climate change, tobacco products, genetically-modified organisms, environment-related diseases, energy production, biodiversity and species endangerment, and the built environment. And as with the first edition, histories of policymaking for specific environmental hazards are portrayed. This edition differs from its antecedent in three significant themes. Global perspectives are added to chapters that describe specific environmental hazards, e.g., air pollution policies in China and India. Also there is the material on the consequences of environmental hazards on both human and ecosystem health. Additionally readers are provided with information about interventions that policymakers and individuals can consider in mitigating or preventing specific environmental hazards.

Author : Cynthia Cates Colella,United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : UOM:39015019366478

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Protecting the Environment by Cynthia Cates Colella,United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations Pdf

Author : Donald N. Dewees,C.K. Everson,William A. Sims
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1975-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442638242

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Economic Analysis of Environmental Policies by Donald N. Dewees,C.K. Everson,William A. Sims Pdf

A framework is concisely presented for the economic analysis of pollution problems and for evaluating proposed solutions. The substantial recent literature on environmental economics is reviewed and related to Ontario environmental policy. Topics include the theory of externalities as an explanation of environmental problems, policy objectives, costs of information and monitoring, and the impact of these costs on control policy selection. Three case studies of specific pollution problems – sulphur dioxide from a smelter, lead from downtown factories, and urban automobile emissions – are given, and possible solutions explored. The authors' methodology is applicable not only to air and water pollution but also to noise, aesthetic degradation, and solid waste. This study will be welcomed by specialists, civil servants, and students trying to understand the economic aspects of environmental maintenance.

Author : Robert W. Crandall
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039432278

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Controlling Industrial Pollution by Robert W. Crandall Pdf

Discusses the effectiveness of government regulations designed to reduce air pollution and recommends changes in air pollution policies and laws.

Author : Barry C. Field
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015064875753

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Environmental Policy by Barry C. Field Pdf

Nations throughout the world are struggling to limit and manage environmental damages stemming from economic production and consumption. In virtually every country, collective action in the form of public policy has been undertaken to rein in these impacts. This text provides an authoritative overview of the dynamic process through which governments make decisions on environmental matters. In clear, reader-friendly language, Field introduces students to the rudiments of the public policy process, the participants and their roles, and the content of the major federal environmental statutes regarding air, water, and land pollution. Throughout the discussion, Field explores the evolving role of the federal government in U.S. environmental policy. He also highlights important ongoing policy issues, both domestic and international, that will confront policy makers well into the future. --Back cover.

Author : Paul Professor Portney,Robert N. Professor Stavins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136524790

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Public Policies for Environmental Protection by Paul Professor Portney,Robert N. Professor Stavins Pdf

The first edition of Public Policies for Environmental Protection contributed significantly to the incorporation of economic analysis in the study of environmental policy. Fully revised to account for changes in the institutional, legal, and regulatory framework of environmental policy, the second edition features updated chapters on the EPA and federal regulation, air and water pollution policy, and hazardous and toxic substances. It includes entirely new chapters on market-based environmental policies, global climate change, solid waste, and, for the first time, coverage of the Safe Drinking Water Act. Portney, Stavins, and their contributors provide an invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, industry professionals, and journalists---anyone who needs up-to-date information on U.S. environmental policy. With their careful explanation of policy alternatives, the authors provide an ideal book for students in courses about environmental economics or environmental politics.