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Public Economics and the Environment in an Imperfect World

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Lans Bovenberg

    1. Tilburg University, Netherlands

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  2. Sijbren Cnossen

    1. Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Natural Resource Management and Policy (NRMP, volume 8)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Public Economics and the Environment in an Imperfect World: An Introductory Summary

      • Lans Bovenberg, Sijbren Cnossen
      Pages 3-17

    3. Public Finance and the Environment

      • Agnar Sandmo
      Pages 19-35

    4. The Political Economy of Implementing Environmental Taxes

      • Mark Pearson
      Pages 37-57

  3. An Imperfect World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Taxing Bads by Taxing Goods: Towards Efficient Pollution Control with Presumptive Charges

      • Gunnar S. Eskeland, Shantayanan Devarajan
      Pages 61-112

    3. Global Climate Change, Energy Subsidies and National Carbon Taxes

      • Bjørn Larsen, Anwar Shah
      Pages 113-132

  4. Assessment Problems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. How a Fee Per-unit Garbage Affects Aggregate Recycling in a Model with Heterogeneous Households

      • Thomas C. Kinnaman, Don Fullerton
      Pages 135-159

    3. Environmental Taxes on Intermediate and final Goods when Both can be Imported

      • James M. Poterba, Julio J. Rotemberg
      Pages 161-170

  6. The Need for Coordination

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
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    2. The Role of the European Union in Environmental Taxation

      • Stephen Smith
      Pages 221-236

    3. Pure Global Externalities: International Efficiency and Equity

      • Peggy B. Musgrave
      Pages 237-259

    4. International Coordination of Environmental Policies and Stability of Global Environmental Agreements

      • Carlo Carraro, Domenico Siniscalco
      Pages 261-274

  7. Efficiency and Distribution Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 275-275
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About this book

Growing populations and economies have increased the public's awareness that the world's environmental resources are finite. The issues of global warming and the depletion of the ozone layer have given universal significance to what were once local and regional pollution problems.
What is evident from Public Economics and the Environment in an Imperfect World is that Coasian negotiations fail to internalize the costs of environmental degradation, often calling for public intervention through the market mechanism. In its consideration of such issues the book includes contributions on assessment problems, institutional aspects, the need for coordination and efficiency, and distribution issues.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Tilburg University, Netherlands

    Lans Bovenberg

  • Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

    Sijbren Cnossen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Public Economics and the Environment in an Imperfect World

  • Editors: Lans Bovenberg, Sijbren Cnossen

  • Series Title: Natural Resource Management and Policy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0661-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9618-5Published: 31 August 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4289-5Published: 28 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-0661-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0929-127X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2511-8560

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 374

  • Topics: Public Economics, Environmental Economics, Microeconomics

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