Economic Policy for the Environment and Natural Resources

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Economic Policy for the Environment and Natural Resources

Techniques for the Management and Control of Pollution

9781858984131 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by Anastasios Xepapadeas, Professor of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Publication Date: 1996 ISBN: 978 1 85898 413 1 Extent: 264 pp
This book covers a wide range of major issues including the legal aspects of environmental protection, environmental policy under oligopolistic conditions, voluntary agreements as a policy instrument, participation in international coalitions and environmental policy in dynamic trade models. In discussing the applications of environmental policy, it includes issues such as the profitability of emission saving techniques, water management and acid rain models.

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Economic Policy for the Environment and Natural Resources presents some of the most important recent work on the theory and application of environmental policy at both the national and international level. At the national level it focuses on instruments for pollution control. At the international level it discusses measures to promote international cooperation for the protection of the environment.

This book covers a wide range of major issues including the legal aspects of environmental protection, environmental policy under oligopolistic conditions, voluntary agreements as a policy instrument, participation in international coalitions and environmental policy in dynamic trade models. In discussing the applications of environmental policy, it includes issues such as the profitability of emission saving techniques, water management and acid rain models.

This book will be essential reading for both policymakers and professional economists who are concerned with environmental policy.
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‘. . . this book is a collection of several excellent essays.’
– Environmental Conservation

‘. . . the book is important and the analysis presented in the individual papers is cogent.’
– Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Utah State University, US
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Contents: Preface Introduction 1. Environmental Protection, Producer Insolvency and Lender Liability (M. Boyer, J.-J. Laffont) 2. Environmental Feedbacks and Optimal Taxation in Oligopoly (C. Carraro, A. Soubeyran) 3. Environmental R&D, Spillovers and Optimal Policy Schemes Under Oligopoly (Y. Katsoulacos, A. Xepapadeas) 4. Voluntary Agreements in Environmental Policy: A Theoretical Appraisal (C. Carraro, D. Siniscalco) 5. Environmental Policy and the Choice of the Best Available Technology: An Empirical Assessment (M. Boetti, M. Botteon) 6. Managing Common Access Resources under Production Externalities (A. Xepapadeas) 7. Issue Linkage in Global Environmental Problems (H. Cesar, A. de Zeeuw) 8. Reflections on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (F. Stähler) 9. Standards Versus Taxes in a Dynamic Duopoly Model of Trade (T. Feenstra, P. Kort, P. Verheyen, A. de Zeeuw) 10. International Negotiations on Acid Rain in Northern Europe: A Discrete Time Iterative Process (M. Germain, P. Toint, H. Tulkens) Index
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