Environmental Policy and the Economy

by Dietz, F.

• ISBN13: 9780444889751
• ISBN10: 0444889752
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781483291185
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-06-01
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd

Summary

This volume focuses on issues of vital interest in environmental policy making. Knowledge is needed about the impacts of economic processes on the environment and vice versa; people's preferences regarding the environmental quality (including the availability of (non)renewable natural resources) must be known; and knowledge concerning the effectiveness and efficiency of the available policy instruments is essential. These issues are dealt with in various contributions on environmental-economic modelling, valuation of the environment, the design of environmental policies and the economic consequences of environmental policy.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Contributors
Environmental Policy and the Economy: An Introduction	p. 1
Environmental-Economic Modelling	p. 17
Three Decades of Environmental-Economic Modelling: Economic Models of Pollutant Emissions	p. 19
Optimal Growth with Stock Pollution	p. 47
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Planet Earth	p. 61
Valuation of the Environment	p. 75
Preference Learning and Contingent Valuation Methods	p. 77
The Economic Value of Wilderness Areas: An Application to the Krutilla-Fisher Model to Scotland's 'Flow Country'	p. 95
Ecological Perception and Distributional Conflicts: A Historical View	p. 117
Environmental Policy	p. 139
Political Economy Aspects of Environmental Policy Instruments	p. 141
Legal Aspects of Marketable Pollution Permits	p. 151
The Firm as an Actor in an Ecological Economy	p. 167
Economic Consequences of Environmental Policy	p. 195
Carbon Taxes and the UK Manufacturing Sector	p. 197
Consequences of Ammonia Emission Abatement Policies for Agricultural Practice in the Netherlands	p. 241
Innovation and Environmental Quality: The Case of EC and US Agriculture	p. 281
Environmental Policy in Single-Product and Joint Production Input-Output Models	p. 299
Index	p. 329
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