Policy instruments for environmental and natural resource management / Thomas Sterner.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Sterner, Thomas, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Environmental policy.
• Conservation of natural resources--Government policy.
• Conservation of natural resources.

Physical Description:

xxii, 504 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Resources for the Future : World Bank ; Stockholm, Sweden : Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, [2003]

Contents:

• Definitions, Concepts, and Challenges for Policymaking 1
• Part I The Need for Environmental and Natural Resource Policy
• Consequences of Economic Growth 11
• Institutional and Policy Failure 13
• Chapter 2. Classical Causes of Environmental Degradation 15
• Growth and the Environment 15
• Welfare and Policy Reform 18
• Market Failure 21
• Externalities 23
• Chapter 3. Public Economics and Information 27
• Public Goods, Club Goods, and Common Property 27
• Congestion 30
• Asymmetric Information and Uncertainty 31
• Chapter 4. Adapting Models to Ecosystems: Ecology, Time, and Space 36
• A Simple Bioeconomic Model of a Fishery 36
• Bioeconomics and the Management of Ecosystems 40
• Management in an Intertemporal Setting 45
• Spatial Heterogeneity and Land Use 49
• Chapter 5. The Evolution of Rights 53
• Real Property 55
• Common Property Resources 58
• Water Law 59
• Lessons for Environmental Externalities and Commons 61
• Part II Review of Policy Instruments
• Chapter 6. Direct Regulation of the Environment 71
• Optimality and Policy Instruments 71
• Direct Provision of Public Goods 74
• Regulation of Technology 75
• Regulation of Performance 79
• Chapter 7. Tradable Permits 82
• U.S. Emissions Trading Programs 85
• Other Emissions Trading Programs 91
• Trading Programs for Other Resources 92
• Chapter 8. Taxes 94
• Pigovian Taxes 94
• Taxes, Charges, and Earmarking 97
• Taxes on Inputs and Outputs 99
• Taxing Natural Resources 101
• Chapter 9. Subsidies, Deposit-Refund Schemes, and Refunded Emissions Payments 102
• Subsidies and Subsidy Removal 102
• Deposit-Refund, Tax-Subsidy, and Other Two-Part Tariff Systems 104
• Refunded Emissions Payments 106
• Chapter 10. Property Rights, Legal Instruments, and Informational Policies 109
• Creation of Property Rights 109
• Common Property Resource Management 111
• Liability and Other Legal Instruments 115
• Environmental Agreements 119
• Provision of Information 122
• Chapter 11. National Policy and Planning 128
• Part III Selection of Policy Instruments
• Chapter 12. Efficiency of Policy Instruments 136
• Heterogeneous Abatement Costs 136
• Heterogeneous Damage Costs 141
• Efficiency in an Intertemporal Sense 145
• Technological Progress, Growth, and Inflation 146
• Chapter 13. Role of Uncertainty and Information Asymmetry 150
• Uncertainty in Abatement and Damage Costs (Price vs. Quantity) 150
• Uncertainty Concerning Type of Polluter or User 154
• Uncertainty Concerning Polluter or User Behavior 157
• Chapter 14. Equilibrium Effects and Market Conditions 167
• Goal Fulfillment, Abatement, and Output Substitution 167
• General Equilibrium, Taxation, and the Double Dividend 171
• Adapting to Market Conditions 175
• Chapter 15. Distribution of Costs 180
• Distribution of Costs and Rights between Polluters and Society 181
• Allocation of Rights 184
• Incidence of Costs between Polluters 186
• Income Distributional Effects and Poverty 189
• Chapter 16. Politics and Psychology of Policy Instruments 193
• Politics of Policy Instrument Selection 194
• Enforcement, Monitoring, and the Psychology of Instrument Choice 197
• Policymaking in Severely Resource-Constrained Economies 199
• Chapter 17. International Aspects 203
• International Environmental Issues 203
• Trade, International Relations, and Local Policymaking 206
• Competitiveness and the Porter Hypothesis 210
• Chapter 18. Design of Policy Instruments 212
• Environmental Policy Selection Matrix 212
• Interaction between Policies 217
• Part IV Policy Instruments for Road Transportation
• Chapter 19. Environmental Damage Caused by Transportation 222
• Vehicles 222
• Location 223
• Combining Vehicle Age and Location 224
• Engine Temperature and Other Factors 225
• Chapter 20. Environmental Road Pricing 228
• Calculating Environmental Damage from Road Transportation 228
• Simpler Pricing Schemes 230
• Chapter 21. Taxation or Regulation for Fuel Efficiency 239
• Fuel Taxation 239
• Regulations Instead of Price Mechanisms 248
• Chapter 22. Fuel Quality, Vehicle Standards, and Urban Planning 252
• Fuel Quality and the Phaseout of Lead 252
• Policies for Fuel Quality in Sweden and Other Countries 259
• Vehicle Standards, Efficiency, and Distributional Concerns 261
• Urban Pollution in Developing-World Cities 267
• Chapter 23. Lessons Learned: Transportation 273
• Part V Policy Instruments for Industrial Pollution
• Chapter 24. Experience in Developed Countries 278
• Abating Sulfur Emissions 279
• Reducing NO[subscript x] Emissions from Combustion 285
• Green Tax Reform in Sweden and Germany 290
• Prohibition Compared with Other Policies: Trichloroethylene 294
• Liability and Superfund 300
• Information Provision and VAs on U.S. Toxic Emissions 302
• Global Policymaking: Protecting the Ozone Layer 304
• Global Climate Change: Domestic Policies and New Technology 305
• Chapter 25. Experience in Developing Countries 316
• Environmental Funds and Other Instruments: CEE Countries 317
• Environmental Fees and Funds: China 320
• Environmental Charges: Rio Negro, Colombia 323
• Voluntary Participation in Emissions Control: Mexico 325
• Differentiated Electricity Tariffs: Mexico and Zambia 327
• Information Provision and Institutional Capacity: Indonesia 331
• Two-Tier Pollution Regulation: India 336
• Lessons Learned 342
• Part VI Policy Instruments for the Management of Natural Resources and Ecosystems
• Chapter 26. Water 346
• Water Management and Tariffication 348
• Tariff Structures in Some Middle Eastern Economies 350
• Water Tariffs in Chile 350
• Water Management, Laws, and Pricing in Southern Africa 352
• Pricing Water When Metering Is Not Possible 354
• CPR Management of Water 359
• Chapter 27. Waste 362
• Economic Incentives in Waste Management 363
• Waste Management in Developing Countries 365
• Tourism and Waste Management in the Caribbean 366
• Eco-Labeling of Soaps and Detergents 369
• Tradable Packaging Waste Recovery Notes 371
• Chapter 28. Fisheries 373
• Management of Small-Scale Subsistence Fisheries 377
• ITQs in Fishery Management 381
• Chapter 29. Agriculture 390
• Managing Agricultural Runoff 392
• Property Rights, Population Growth, and Soil Erosion 394
• Risk in Sharecropper Agriculture 396
• Eco-Taxes in Agroindustry 400
• Chapter 30. Forestry 406
• Subsidies 408
• Taxes 409
• Regulations 410
• Forest Concessions and Timber Contracts 410
• Certification 411
• Carbon Offsets and Other Forms of International Payment 412
• Clarification of Property Rights 413
• Chapter 31. Ecosystems 416
• CPR Management of Wildlife in Zimbabwe 417
• Protection of Marine Ecosystems 420
• Shaping Ecosystem Policy 427
• Chapter 32. Policy Issues and Potential Solutions 432
• Policymaking Criteria 433
• Efficiency 434
• Uncertainty, Risk, and Information Asymmetry 436
• Ecological and Technical Complexities 438
• The Provision of Environmental Public Goods 439
• Feasibility, Market Structure, and General Equilibrium Effects 441
• Cost Distribution and the Politics of Policymaking 443
• National and International Policymaking 444.

Notes:

• "An RFF press book"--T.p. verso.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-481) and index.

ISBN:

• 1891853139
• 1891853120

OCLC:

50866880