Behavioral Responses to Environmentally-related Taxes
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 38
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Environmentally Related Taxes in OECD Countries Issues and Strategies
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2001-10-05
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9789264193659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report analyses current use of environmentally related taxes in OECD Member countries. Focus is given to their environmental effectiveness. The report identifies obstacles to a broader use of such taxes -- in particular the fear of loss of sectoral competitiveness -- and ways to overcome them.
Government and Markets
Author: Edward J. Balleisen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 579
ISBN-13: 0521118484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter two generations of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, we now see growing interest in the possibility of constructive governance, alongside public calls for new, smarter regulation. Yet there is a real danger that regulatory reforms will be rooted in outdated ideas. As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market failure models nor public choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our current regulatory challenges. Regulatory studies, long neglected in an atmosphere focused on deregulatory work, is in critical need of new models and theories that can guide effective policy-making. This interdisciplinary volume points the way toward the modernization of regulatory theory. Its essays by leading scholars move past predominant approaches, integrating the latest research about the interplay between human behavior, societal needs, and regulatory institutions. The book concludes by setting out a potential research agenda for the social sciences.
Global Environmental Change
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1991-02-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0309044944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobal environmental change often seems to be the most carefully examined issue of our time. Yet understanding the human sideâ€"human causes of and responses to environmental changeâ€"has not yet received sustained attention. Global Environmental Change offers a strategy for combining the efforts of natural and social scientists to better understand how our actions influence global change and how global change influences us. The volume is accessible to the nonscientist and provides a wide range of examples and case studies. It explores how the attitudes and actions of individuals, governments, and organizations intertwine to leave their mark on the health of the planet. The book focuses on establishing a framework for this new field of study, identifying problems that must be overcome if we are to deepen our understanding of the human dimensions of global change, presenting conclusions and recommendations.
Environmentally Significant Behaviour in the Czech Republic: Energy, Food and Transportation
Author: Milan Ščasný
Publisher: Karolinum Press
Published: 2013-05-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 8024620766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book strives to present the results of research into the consumption of goods and services in Czech households. The first two chapters focus on the effect of consumption on the environment and theoretical approaches towards consumption and behaviour analysis. The remaining five chapters look into consumer behaviour and its significant effect on the environment, such as a demand for energy and transport, energy-saving measures in households, car ownership and organic food consumption. This book aims to point out the environmental effects related to these types of behaviour and provide new information on the frequency of these types of consumer behaviour in various segments of the Czech society. This publication also accentuates the policies and other intervention tools that may be used to influence consumer behaviour.
Decision Making for the Environment
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2005-07-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0309095409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the growing number, complexity, and importance of environmental problems come demands to include a full range of intellectual disciplines and scholarly traditions to help define and eventually manage such problems more effectively. Decision Making for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities is the result of a 2-year effort by 12 social and behavioral scientists, scholars, and practitioners. The report sets research priorities for the social and behavioral sciences as they relate to several different kinds of environmental problems.
The Political Economy of Environmentally Related Taxes
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2006-06-19
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9264025537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a comprehensive discussion on the effectiveness of environmentally related taxes and their potential for wider use.
The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology
Author: Cait Lamberton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-04-06
Total Pages: 873
ISBN-13: 1009243942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last two years, consumers have experienced massive changes in consumption – whether due to shifts in habits; the changing information landscape; challenges to their identity, or new economic experiences of scarcity or abundance. What can we expect from these experiences? How are the world's leading thinkers applying both foundational knowledge and novel insights as we seek to understand consumer psychology in a constantly changing landscape? And how can informed readers both contribute to and evaluate our knowledge? This handbook offers a critical overview of both fundamental topics in consumer psychology and those that are of prominence in the contemporary marketplace, beginning with an examination of individual psychology and broadening to topics related to wider cultural and marketplace systems. The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology, 2nd edition, will act as a valuable guide for teachers and graduate and undergraduate students in psychology, marketing, management, economics, sociology, and anthropology.
Behavioral and Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy
Author: Carlo Carraro
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-02-15
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 0226094804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost people would agree that it makes sense to tax a company that pollutes in a way that directly reflects the amount of environmental and social damage it has done. Yet in practice, such taxes are fraught with difficulty and have far-reaching implications. A company facing a new tax may lay off workers, for example, exacerbating an unemployment problem. This volume focuses on such external issues and examines in detail the trade-offs involved in designing policies to deal with environmental problems. Reflecting the broad nature of the subject, the contributors include leading economists in the areas of public finance, industrial organization, and trade theory, as well as environmental economists. Integrating both theoretical and empirical methods, they examine environmental policy design as it relates to location decisions, compliance costs, administrative costs, effects on research and development, and international factor movements. Shedding light on an extraordinarily complex and important topic, this collection will be of interest to all those involved in designing effective environmental policy.
Fostering Sustainable Behavior
Author: Doug McKenzie-Mohr
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1550924621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe highly acclaimed manual for changing everyday habits-now in an all-newthird edition! We are consuming resources and polluting our environment at a rate that is outstripping our planet's ability to support us. To create a sustainable future, we must not only change our own actions, we must educate and encourage those around us to change theirs. If one individual recycles his plastic containers, the impact is minimal. But if an entire community recycles, enormous amounts of resources are saved. How then do we go about transforming people's good intentions into action? Fostering Sustainable Behavior explains how the field of community-based social marketing has emerged as an effective tool for encouraging positive social change. This completely revised and updated third edition contains a wealth of new research, behavior change tools, and case studies. Learn how to: target unsustainable behaviors, and identify the barriers to change understand various commitment strategies communicate effective messages enhance motivation and invite participation. The strategies introduced in this ground-breaking manual are an invaluable resource for anyone interested in promoting sustainable behavior, including environmental conservation, recycling and waste reduction, water and energyefficiency and alternative transportation.
