Moving to markets in environmental regulation : lessons from twenty years of experience /

Contains essays that bring together some of the best academic minds from economics and law to take a retrospective look at the performance of market-based instruments for environmental protection. This book is intended for academics in environmental economics and law, along with policymakers and adv...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Freeman, Jody, Kolstad, Charles D.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:	Environmental policy > Economic aspects. Environmental protection > Economic aspects. Emissions trading. Environmental impact charges. Wetland mitigation banking. Environmental law. Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Aspect économique. Environnement > Protection > Aspect économique. Échange de droits d'émission (Environnement) Taxe écologique. Zones humides > Conservation > Compensations. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Sustainable Development. NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection. Emissions trading Environmental impact charges Environmental law Environmental policy > Economic aspects Environmental protection > Economic aspects Wetland mitigation banking Umweltökonomie Milieubeleid. Regulering. Verhandelbare emissierechten. United States of America. Environmental protection. Tradable emission permits. Pollution charges. Economics. Environmental regulation Markets Electronic books. Kongress. Santa Barbara (Calif., 2003)
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Table of Contents:

Prescriptive environmental regulations versus market-based incentives / Jody Freeman & Charles D. Kolstad
Market-based environmental policies : what can we learn from U.S. experience (and related research)? / Robert Stavins
Are cap-and-trade programs more environmentally effective than conventional regulation? / A. Denny Ellerman
Tradable permits in principle and practice / Tom Tietenberg
International experience with competing approaches to environmental policy : results from six paired cases / Winston Harrington & Richard D. Morgenstern
Tradable permits with incomplete monitoring : evidence from Santiago's particulate permits program / Juan-Pablo Montero
The market-based lead phasedown / Richard G. Newell & Kristian Rogers
Cost savings from allowance trading in the 1990 Clean Air Act : estimates from a choice-based model / Nathaniel O. Keohane
Subsidies! the other incentive based instrument : the case of the conservation reserve program / Hongli Feng [and others]
An assessment of legal liability as a market-based instrument / Kathleen Segerson
AN economic assessment of market-based approaches to regulating the municipal solid waster stream / Peter S. Menell
"No net loss" : instrument choice in wetlands protection / James Salzman & J.B. Ruhl
Tradable pollution permits and the regulatory game / Jason Scott Johnston
Environmental trading schemes and the constitutional leverage effect / Daniel A. Farber
A proposal to use transactions to leverage environmental disclosure and compliance / Michael B. Gerrard
Design, trading, and innovation / David M. Driesen.