Environment, Incentives and the Common Market: 4 (Environment & Policy, 4) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 079233602X ISBN 13: 9780792336020

Publisher: Springer, 1995

Synopsis

Although economists have long advocated the use of economic instruments in the implementation of environmental policy, they have only recently gained acceptance. There is a growing consensus within the European Union that both Member States and the environment would benefit from the use of such incentive-based economic instruments.
Environment, Incentives and the Common Market has been written by members of the Study Group on the Environment and Economics of the National Environmental Forum, which includes economists and social scientists from all the major Dutch universities and research institutes. The book covers a wide range of topics on the use of taxation and tradeable permits in a variety of abatement policies. It concludes with comments on political feasibility.

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Synopsis

Although economists have long advocated the use of economic instruments in the implementation of environmental policy, they have only recently gained acceptance. There is a growing consensus within the European Union that both Member States and the environment would benefit from the use of such incentive-based economic instruments. This work has been written by members of the Study Group on the Environment and Economics of the National Environmental Forum, which includes economists and social scientists from all the major Dutch universities and research institutes. It covers a wide range of topics on the use of taxation and tradeable permits in a variety of abatement policies, and concludes with comments on political feasibility.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 079233602X
• ISBN 13: 9780792336020
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 186
• Editor: Dietz F.J., Vollebergh Herman R.J., De Vries Jan L.