Environmental Policy Between Regulation and Market
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basel
Birkhäuser Basel
1997, 1997
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1997 |
| Series: | Themenhefte Schwerpunktprogramm Umwelt
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Economic Instruments for Environmental Policy
- 2. Environmental Charges
- 2.1 Environmental Taxes: Analytical Framework
- 2.2 Environmental Taxes in the Italian White Paper on Fiscal Reform
- 2.3 Cars and Environment in Switzerland: What Kind of Taxes?
- 3. Greening of the Tax System
- 3.1 Principles of an Ecological Fiscal Reform
- 3.2 Testing the Double Dividend Hypothesis for a Carbon Tax in a Small Open Economy
- 4. Tradeable Permits
- 4.1 Designing Efficient Treaties to Protect the Global Environment
- 4.2 Designing a Trading Programme for Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides in the Northeastern United States
- 4.3 Emission Trading: The Basle Experience
- 4.4 A Tradeable Permit Market for NOX: An Application to the Chablais Region
- 4.5 Tradeable Permits in Switzerland: The Legal Perspective
- 5. Covenants
- 5.1 Covenants from Instrument of Environmental Policy to Implementation Tool
- 5.2 Covenants as Central Elements in an Effective Environmental Policy Mix
- 6. Acceptability of Economic Instruments
- 6.1 Economic Instruments and Social Acceptability: A Debate about Values
- 7. Direct Regulation and Economic Incentives: Opposition or Complementarity?
- 7.1 Direct Regulation and Economic Instruments: Antagonists or Allies?
- 7.2 Regulations and Market-based Instruments in Swiss Environmental Policy
- 8. Conclusion
- What Have We Learned About Market-based Instruments?