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Environmental Policy
Objectives, Instruments, and Implementation
Edited by Dieter Helm
344 pages
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figures, tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-924135-4
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Hardback
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30 November 2000
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- Leading economists provide expert economic analysis and assess applied policy implementation
The twentieth century witnessed unparalleled economic growth among developed countries, largely based upon the exploitation of fossil fuels, and unparalleled population growth in developing countries. These broad trends in turn did massive damage to the environment. Biodiversity has suffered its biggest reverse since the last great extinctions in geological time, and the burning of fossil fuels has begun to change our climate.
But it was only at the end of the century that environmental concerns were transformed from a narrow
sectional interest, moving to the centre-stage of government, and on to the main agendas of companies. Once a minority interest, the environment now commands the attention of ministers, chief executives, and consumers in the supermarket. Party manifestos proclaim the greenness of politicians, companies produce environmental reports, and shoppers opt for organic food and avoid genetically modified products.
This volume focuses on the practical design of economic instruments for environmental policy. It is divided into three parts: the overarching policy context; the choice of policy instruments; and applications to the main sectors of the economy.Readership: Academics and
postgraduate/advanced undergraduate students working on economics and the environment; policy-makers and environmentalists, including those in the environmental departments of large companies.
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Edited by Dieter Helm, Fellow of Economics, New College, Oxford, and Director, Oxford Economic Research Associates Ltd. Contributors:
Dieter Helm, University of Oxford
Giles Atkinson, London School of Economics
The late David Pearce, CSERGE, University College London
Anthony Heyes, Royal Holloway College, University of London
Scott Barrett, Johns Hopkins University
David Macdonald, University of Oxford
Stephen Smith, University College London
Simon Cowan, University of Oxford
Ian Hodge, University of Cambridge
Chris Nash, University of
Leeds
Inger Brisson, University of Edinburgh<i>
Jane Powell, CSERGE, University of East Anglia
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Part One: Principles
1: Dieter Helm: Objectives, Instruments, and Institutions
2: Giles Atkinson: Sustainable Development and Policy
3: David Pearce: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Environmental Policy
4: David Pearce: The Economics of Technology-based Environmental Standards
5: Anthony Heyes: Making Things Stick: Enforcement and Compliance
art Two: Policy
6: Scott Barrett: Political Economy of the Kyoto Protocol
7: David Macdonald: Bartering Biodiversity: What are the Options?
Part Three: Sectors
8: Stephen Smith: Environmental and Public Finance Aspects of the Taxation of Energy
9: Simon Cowan: Water Pollution and Abstraction and Economic Instruments
10: Ian Hodge: Agri-environmental Policy: A UK Perspective
11: Chris Nash: Transport and the Environment
12: Inger Brisson and Jane Powell: The UK Landfill Tax
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