Green taxation and environmental sustainability / edited by Larry Kreiser ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kreiser, Larry.

Series:

Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation Series

Critical issues in environmental taxation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental impact analysis.

Sustainability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Green Taxation and Environmental Sustainability explores the critical issue of how taxes can be applied across relevant environmental issues - including transport, nuclear power, and water and waste management - to achieve sustainability. Containing topical chapters written by environmental experts, the book covers a number of key issues, including interaction of biofuels and EU state aid rules; territorial differences for transport fuel demand; electric vehicles, taxation and electricity transmission; public policy issues on the disposal of high-level radioactive waste in Japan; landfill and

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Editorial review board; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; PART I Measuring green taxes; 1. Improving the methodology for measuring the greening of the tax system; 2. New information in the OECD database on instruments used for environmental policy; PART II Achieving sustainable mobility; 3. Promotion of biofuels and EU State aid rules: the case of Spain; 4. Territorial differences for transport fuel demand in Spain: an econometric study

5. Environmental concern and sustainability: when citizens assess urban mobility, do they consider the environment?6. Taxing malls: ways to achieve sustainable urban mobility and transport; PART III New approaches to sustainable mobility; 7. Electric vehicles: plugging into the US tax code; 8. Electric vehicles, taxes and public policies in Brazil; 9. Automobile taxation in Spain: recent reforms and future proposals; 10. Fiscal tools for inclusion of GCC states in the global environmental programme: focus upon new vehicle imports; PART IV Encouraging new renewable technologies

11. Taxation and electricity transmission: bringing wind energy onto the grid12. Public-private partnerships as incentive to foster sustainable technologies; PART V Nuclear power externalities; 13. Public policy issues on the disposal of high-level radioactive waste in Japan; 14. Fueling meltdown: nuclear tax and subsidy in Japan; PART VI Water and waste management; 15. Looking for evidence of landfill tax effectiveness in the European Union; 16. Landfill and waste incineration taxes in Catalonia, Spain

17. Raw water pricing for groundwater preservation: a policy advocacy exercise in CDO, PhilippinesIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-69887-0

1-78195-218-3

OCLC:

811963912