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Basics in Environmental Economics and Environmental Policies

2016
This chapter explains the basic concepts in the economic analysis of environmental problems. First, Sect. 15.1 is an overview of the relationship between the environment and society, followed by Sect. 15.2, which uses graphs to explain the cause of environmental problems from an economics viewpoint.
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Economic and Environmental Policies for Sustainability

1992
One aspect of sustainable development is operationalized: if economic growth is to be compatible with environmental restrictions, then both technology and output composition must somehow be restricted to take increasing scarcity of environmental resources into account.
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Economics of environmental degradation and policies

1994
The issue of environmental degradation is similar to that of the problems of fisheries (Chapter 2). As in fisheries, environmental problems came about largely as a result of the market failure to define and enforce property rights. However, environmental problems as a whole are much more complex and consequently harder to deal with than the problems of
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Evolutionary Economics and Environmental Policy

2007
This study offers a unique evolutionary economics perspective on energy and innovation policies in the wider context of the transition to sustainable development.
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Economic Instruments for Environmental Policy

1997
From the mid-70s up until the beginning of the present decade, environmental policy benefited from a particularly favourable climate. New programmes enjoyed practically unlimited popular support, and moved easily through the different stages up to implementation.
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Economic Environmental Policy Instruments

1998
A pollution abatement policy consists of an objective plus the instruments needed to attain that objective. Most often the objective is to lower the discharge from a firm or branch. There are two ways of distinguishing between abatement instruments. In the first place, one can look at the way a firm’s conduct can be influenced.
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Economic Instruments of Environmental Policy

1991
Economic instruments of environmental policy can be both efficient and equitable. They provide incentives for particular actions without removing individual freedom of choice. They generally need to be coupled with or supported by regulatory and technological instruments.
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