Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management: Second Edition - Softcover

Sterner, Thomas; Coria, Jessica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617260983 ISBN 13: 9781617260988

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of economic policy instruments in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in rich and poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it discusses the design of instruments that can be employed in any country in a wide range of contexts, including transportation, industrial pollution, water pricing, waste, fisheries, forests, and agriculture.

While deeply rooted in economics, Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management is informed by political, legal, ecological, and psychological research. The new edition enhances what has already been widely hailed as a highly innovative work. The book includes greatly expanded coverage of climate change, covering aspects related to policy design, international equity and discounting, voluntary carbon markets, permit trading in United States, and the Clean Development Mechanism. Focusing ever more on leading ideas in both theory and policy, the new edition brings experimental economics into the main of its discussions. It features expanded coverage of the monitoring and enforcement of environmental policy, technological change, the choice of policy instruments under imperfect competition, and subjects such as corporate social responsibility, bio-fuels, payments for ecosystem services, and REDD.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) 4.0 license.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas Sterner is a professor of environmental economics at the University of Gothenburg. He is a former president of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. He is the lead editor of the RFF Press-Environment for Development book series.

Jessica Coria is a postdoc at the University of Gothenburg.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1617260983
• ISBN 13: 9781617260988
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 656