Greening the budget : budgetary policies for environmental improvement / edited by J. Peter Clinch ... [et al.]. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clinch, J. Peter.

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Series:

International studies in environmental policy making.

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:

1 online resource (xxi, 340 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : E. Elgar, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the environment and explores the scope for greening both revenue and expenditure through specific measures.

Contents:

Introduction / J. Peter Clinch, Kai Schlegelmilch, Ursula Triebswetter

Environmentally Damaging Subsidies

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

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

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

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

Taxes and Charges

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

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

Energy subsidies in Germany / Bettina Meyer

Designing a land-use tax / Kilian Bizer

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

Subsidies for Environmental Purposes

The provision of public goods

sending the right price signals / Eirik Romstad

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

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

European Financial Transfers

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

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-78100-991-0