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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Greening of the Tax System
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Front Matter
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Tradeable Permits
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Front Matter
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Acceptability of Economic Instruments
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Keywords
About this book
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, difficulties in meeting the goals set, to name a few. In response, the environmental authorities in many countries have begun to reassess the efficacy of their programs, with the result that market incentives and voluntary agreements with companies or branches of industry have been added to the arsenal of traditional environmental protection measures. There are great expectations for new economic instruments, which offer the twofold advantage of giving companies more freedom in the choice of means, and of increasing the chances for meeting goals in a more cost-effective way. The authors of this book analyse these instruments - green taxes, tradeable permits, covenants, joint implementation, internationally tradeable quotas - from the point of view of costeffectiveness, their ability to achieve environmental goals, and public and corporate acceptability. They endeavour to determine on the basis of experience to date, whether these instruments are living up to the hopes placed in them.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Policy Between Regulation and Market
Editors: Claude Jeanrenaud
Series Title: Themenhefte Schwerpunktprogramm Umwelt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9012-0
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Verlag AG 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-5319-3Published: 01 January 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-9012-0Published: 07 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 366
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations