Greening the budget : budgetary policies for environmental improvement / edited by J. Peter Clinch ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clinch, J. Peter.

Series:

International studies in environmental policy making

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Budget--Case studies.

Budget.

Subsidies--Case studies.

Subsidies.

Sustainable development--Case studies.

Sustainable development.

Environmental policy--Case studies.

Environmental policy.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham ; Northampton, MA : E. Elgar, [2002]

Contents:

Part I Environmentally Damaging Subsidies

1 Can we tell a perverse subsidy if we see one? / Jan H. M. Pieters, Helen Mountford 3

2 The perversity of government subsidies for energy and water / Andre de Moor, Cees van Beers 24

3 Promoting green budget reforms in the USA: the experience of Friends of the Earth / Gawain Kripke 45

4 Green budget reform: case study of Slovenia / Kai Schlegelmilch, Tanja Markovic-Hribernik 62

Part II Taxes and Charges

5 Evaluating environmental taxes: recent experiences and proposals for the future / Stefan Speck, Paul Ekins 87

6 A review of environmentally damaging tax concessions in Germany / Ursula Triebswetter 107

7 Energy subsidies in Germany / Bettina Meyer 122

8 Designing a land-use tax / Kilian Bizer 145

9 Italian waste management: comparing revenues from a general tax with a quantity-related fee / Luciano Messori 162

Part III Subsidies for Environmental Purposes

10 The provision of public goods

sending the right price signals / Eirik Romstad 183

11 Technical potential for CO[subscript 2] emissions reductions and the scope for subsidies / Johan Albrecht 195

12 Assessing subsidies in a second-best world: the case of forestry in Ireland / J. Peter Clinch 213

Part IV European Financial Transfers

13 Economic instruments for agri-environmental policy: what, when, and what for? / Dominic Hogg 227

14 European Union agri-environmental policy: issues and potentials / Frank J. Convey, John Fry, Alan Matthews, Siobhan O'Shea, Anne Pender 248

15 Subsidies to the farming sector: who receives direct payments in Ireland? / Susan Scott 275

Part V Public Purchasing and Administration

16 The case of public purchasing and green procurement at the municipal level: the local and the European dimension / Arndt Mielisch, Christoph Erdmenger 297

17 Cooperative procurement: market transformation for energy-efficient products / Katrin Ostertag, Carsten Dreher 314.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references index.

ISBN:

1840647531

OCLC:

47225223