Economic Incentives and Environmental Policies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Environmental Economics and Environmental Policy Instruments: Introduction and Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Environmental Economics and Environmental Policy Instruments: Introduction and Overview

      • Kerry Turner, Hans Opschoor

      Pages 1-38

3. Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy Instruments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Environmental Policy Failures and Environmental Policy Levels

      • Harmen Verbruggen

      Pages 41-54

   3. Economic Incentives in Environmental Policy: Why are They White Ravens?

      • Lex De Savornin Lohman

      Pages 55-67

   4. On the Design of Incentive Mechanisms in Environmental Policy

      • Klaus Conrad, Jianmin Wang

      Pages 69-85

4. Economic Instruments: Empirical Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Instrument Choice in Water Pollution Policy in Italy

      • Angela Fraschini, Alberto Cassone

      Pages 89-112

   3. Carbon Taxation and Global Warming: Domestic Policy Aspects

      • Diego Piacentino

      Pages 113-128

   4. Environmental Policy Instruments for Controlling Air Pollution: An Applied General Equilibrium Modelling Approach for Quantifying their Efficiency and Effectiveness

      • Klaus Conrad, Michael Schröder

      Pages 129-151

   5. Regulating the Farmers’ use of Pesticides in Sweden

      • Ing-Marie Gren

      Pages 153-173

   6. Economic Instruments for Environmental Protection in Agriculture: Some Basic Problems of Implementation

      • Hans G. Nutzinger

      Pages 175-193

5. Product Cycles, Innovation and the Design of Economic Instruments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Chain Management in Environmental Policy: Analytical and Evaluative Concepts

      • Hans Opschoor

      Pages 197-228

   3. Wastepaper Cycle Management: Incentives and Product Chain Pressure Point or ‘Leverage Point’ Analysis

      • Gerard Bertolini

      Pages 229-249

   4. The Role of Economic Instruments in Solid Waste Management Policy

      • R. Kerry Turner, David Pearce

      Pages 251-273

   5. Policy Instruments to Stimulate Cleaner Technologies

      • René Kemp, Xander Olsthoorn, Frans Oosterhuis, Harmen Verbruggen

      Pages 275-300

6. Back Matter

   Pages 301-309

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This book contains a collection of papers on economic incentives and environmental policies which result from the authors' joint research work in the program `Environment, Science and Society', conducted under the auspices of the European Science Foundation, with whose cooperation the book has been published.
The work concentrates on the scientific and methodological aspects of the development, implementation and evaluation of economic instruments at a national level. The research is both theoretical and empirical.

• At a theoretical level attention is given to the dynamics of instrument choice in various political and economic contexts, and to the means for evaluating economic instruments in terms of their effectiveness and efficiency.
• At an empirical level the research seeks to investigate the performance of economic instruments in reality and to explore options for new approaches on the interface between technology, economy and the environment. A subject index complements this first volume in the ESF `Environment, Science and Society' series.

• agriculture
• development
• environment
• environmental economics
• environmental policy
• environmental protection

• RMNO, Rijswijk, The Netherlands

  Hans Opschoor

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