Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management

Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management

Author: Thomas Sterner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-30

Total Pages: 707

ISBN-13: 1317703863

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Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of economic policy instruments in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in rich and poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it discusses the design of instruments that can be employed in any country in a wide range of contexts, including transportation, industrial pollution, water pricing, waste, fisheries, forests, and agriculture. While deeply rooted in economics, Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management is informed by political, legal, ecological, and psychological research. The new edition enhances what has already been widely hailed as a highly innovative work. The book includes greatly expanded coverage of climate change, covering aspects related to policy design, international equity and discounting, voluntary carbon markets, permit trading in United States, and the Clean Development Mechanism. Focusing ever more on leading ideas in both theory and policy, the new edition brings experimental economics into the main of its discussions. It features expanded coverage of the monitoring and enforcement of environmental policy, technological change, the choice of policy instruments under imperfect competition, and subjects such as corporate social responsibility, bio-fuels, payments for ecosystem services, and REDD.


The Global Environment

The Global Environment

Author: Norman J. Vig

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-04-14

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1000949192

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All serious environmental threats are now international in scope and more than one thousand international environmental agreements already exist. Yet the prospects for international cooperation leading to the management of impacts on the planet remain grim. The Global Environment meets the need for an authoritative assessment of the state of international environmental institutions, laws and policies at the end of the 20th century. The book examines disagreements over the meaning of sustainable development, problems inherent in implementing environmental policies and the conflict over the exclusion of developing countries from the Kyoto Protocol. It discusses the profound trade-offs that may be required, the role of international financial interests in promoting incompatible forms of development and analyses international environmental institutions, law and policy and sustainable development.


European Yearbook 1996

European Yearbook 1996

Author: J. -P Chauvet

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 1998-12-01

Total Pages: 1336

ISBN-13: 9789041110657

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The "European Yearbook" promotes the scientific study of nineteen European supranational organisations, including the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Each volume contains a detailed survey of the history, structure and yearly activities of each organisation and an up-to-date chart providing a clear overview of the member states of each organisation. In addition, a number of articles on topics of general interest are included in each volume. A general index by subject and name, and a cumulative index of all the articles which have appeared in the "Yearbook," are included in every volume and provide direct access to the "Yearbook"'s subject matter. Each volume contains a comprehensive bibliography covering the year's relevant publications. This is an indispensable work of reference for anyone dealing with the European institutions.


Environmental Taxation in Practice

Environmental Taxation in Practice

Author: Thomas Sterner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 1351939505

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Since the 1980's, market-based instruments for environmental policy have become increasingly important. Focusing on environmental taxation in practice, this volume collects key contributions on a wide range of topics, including comparisons of environmental taxation schemes in different countries, political economy issues and key aspects of concrete implementation. It presents a wealth of ex-ante and ex-post analyses, intended as a source of guidance for policy implementation and research. The volume features a full-length introduction locating the literature on environmental taxation in practice in a wider context of theoretical and applied issues.


Pollution Control in the European Community:Guide to the Ec Texts and Their Implementation by the Member States

Pollution Control in the European Community:Guide to the Ec Texts and Their Implementation by the Member States

Author: S. Ercman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1996-10-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789041108890

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A compilation of brief extracts of all EC pollution control directives, regulations and declarations (consolidated up to the end of 1995). Materials pertaining to water, air, noise, waste and harmful substances are followed by those addressing environmental impact assessment and access to information on the environment. Part two provides a guide to the implementation of EU environmental legislation by the Member States, presenting findings on the monitoring of the application of EU legislation, and reporting briefly on the relevant judgments of the European Court of Justice. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Research Handbook on International Environmental Law

Research Handbook on International Environmental Law

Author: Malgosia Fitzmaurice

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 737

ISBN-13: 1849807264

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. . . an impressive volume and the editors have put together a high quality collection. Research Handbook on International Environmental Law ought to be an invaluable reference source for both teachers and students of international environmental law in the years to come. Web Journal of Current Legal Issues This wide-ranging and comprehensive Handbook examines recent developments in international environmental law (IEL) and the crossover effects of this expansion on other areas of international law, such as trade law and the law of the sea. The expert contributors offer analyses of foundational issues in IEL, such as responsibility for environmental damage, sustainable development and the precautionary principle, alongside studies in topical subject areas including marine protection and the law of international watercourses. This Research Handbook offers an in-depth analysis of IEL, both as a field of law in its own right, and as part of the wider system of international law. It gives a comprehensive view of IEL in all its forms and complexity. With thorough examination of specific environmental regimes and compliance mechanisms, this Handbook will be an indispensable resource for legal scholars, students and practitioners alike.


The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy, 2nd Edition

The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy, 2nd Edition

Author: Regina S Axelrod

Publisher: C Q Press College

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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A timely collection of essays that analyse key issues, institutions, laws, and policies for the protection of the global environment. The new edition of this popular text provides crucial historical background on the development of global environmental organisations and treaties, engaging discussions of current and critical global environmental agreements, and insights into national and international implementation of sustainable development principles. Drawing together a distinguished list of international contributors, the book includes six brand new chapters on such important topics as regime theory, climate change, hazardous chemical controls, perspectives of the developing world, and the European Union's and United States' international environmental policies. All other chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated. The book includes a useful chronology of global environmental policy and a list of acronyms to help students in critical reading, review and study.