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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sterner, Thomas, 1952- author.

Contributor:

Coria, Jessica.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

Conservation of natural resources--Government policy.

Conservation of natural resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 638 pages) illustrations, maps.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : RFF Press, 2012.

Summary:

Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of economic policy instruments in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in rich and poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it discusses the design of instruments that can be employed in any country in a wide range of contexts, including transportation, industrial pollution, water pricing, waste, fisheries, forests, and agriculture. While deeply rooted in economics, Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management is informed by political, legal, ecological, and psychological research. The new edition enhances what has already been widely hailed as a highly innovative work. The book includes greatly expanded coverage of climate change, covering aspects related to policy design, international equity and discounting, voluntary carbon markets, permit trading in United States, and the Clean Development Mechanism. Focusing ever more on leading ideas in both theory and policy, the new edition brings experimental economics into the main of its discussions. It features expanded coverage of the monitoring and enforcement of environmental policy, technological change, the choice of policy instruments under imperfect competition, and subjects such as corporate social responsibility, bio-fuels, payments for ecosystem services, and REDD.

Contents:

pt. 1. The need for environmental and natural resource policy

pt. 2. Review of policy instruments

pt. 3. Selection of policy instruments

pt. 4. Policy instruments for road transportation

pt. 5. Policy instruments for industrial pollution

pt. 6. Policy instruments for the management of natural resources and ecosystems

pt. 7. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-317-70385-5

1-315-78089-5

1-61726-097-5

1-317-70386-3

1-317-70387-1

OCLC:

862745834