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This volume focuses on issues of vital interest in environmental policy making. Knowledge is needed about the impacts of economic processes on the environment and vice versa; people's preferences regarding the environmental quality (including the availability of (non)renewable natural resources) must be known; and knowledge concerning the effectiveness and efficiency of the available policy instruments is essential. These issues are dealt with in various contributions on environmental-economic modelling, valuation of the environment, the design of environmental policies and the economic consequences of environmental policy.
This volume focuses on issues of vital interest in environmental policy making. Knowledge is needed about the impacts of economic processes on the environment and vice versa; people's preferences regarding the environmental quality (including the availability of (non)renewable natural resources) must be known; and knowledge concerning the effectiveness and efficiency of the available policy instruments is essential. These issues are dealt with in various contributions on environmental-economic modelling, valuation of the environment, the design of environmental policies and the economic consequences of environmental policy.

Front Cover 1
Environmental Policy and the Economy 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 14
Preface 8
List of Contributors 10
Chapter 1. Environmental Policy and the Economy: An Introduction 16
1 Increasing Concern for Environmental Quality 16
2 Outline of the Volume 18
3 Issues for Further Research 29
References 31
PART I: ENVIRONMENTAL-ECONOMIC MODELLING 32
CHAPTER 2. THREE DECADES OF ENVIRONMENTAL-ECONOMICMODELLING: ECONOMIC MODELS OF POLLUTANT EMISSIONS 34
1 Introduction 34
2 Economy-Environment: A Systems Description 1 36
3 Economy-Emissions Models Based onInput-Output Analysis 38
4 Economy-Emissions Models Based on Materials Balances 44
5 Economy-Emissions Models Based on KLEM Production Functions 46
6 Integrative Economy-Emissions Models 2 47
7 Conclusions 56
CHAPTER 3. OPTIMAL GROWTH WITH STOCK POLLUTION 62
1 Introduction 62
2 The Model 64
3 The Existence and Uniqueness of the Steady State 66
4 Dynamic Properties of the Steady State 69
5 Summary and Conclusions 71
References 74
CHAPTER 4. AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF PLANET EARTH 76
1 Introduction 76
2 The Model 1 77
3 Brundtland Sustainability 82
4 Conclusions 84
References 88
PART II: VALUATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT 90
CHAPTER 5. PREFERENCE LEARNING AND CONTINGENT VALUATION METHODS 92
1 Introduction 92
2 Preference Learning 94
3 Experimental Design and Procedures 98
4 Experimental Results 101
5 Summary and Conclusions 104
References 106
CHAPTER 6. THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF WILDERNESS AREAS: AN APPLICATION TO THE KRUTILLA-FISHER MODEL TO SCOTLAND'S 'FLOW COUNTRY 110
1 Introduction 110
2 The Krutilla-Fisher Model 111
3 The Ecology of the Flow Country and the Problems of Afforestation 113
4 The Institutional Setting 118
5 The Contingent Valuation Survey 120
6 Applying the Krutilla-Fisher Model 127
7 Conclusions 129
References 130
CHAPTER 7. ECOLOGICAL PERCEPTION AND DISTRIBUTIONAL CONFLICTS : A HISTORICAL VIEW 132
1 Some Limits of Ecological Rationality 132
2 Energy and the Economy: A Historical View 134
3 Raubwirtschaft, a Concept of Ecological Geography 138
4 Incommensurable Externalities 139
5 Ecological Economics and Marxism: A Post Mortem? 142
6 Positional Goods and Fordism in the Periphery 147
7 A Political Conclusion 149
References 150
PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 154
CHAPTER 8. POLITICAL ECONOMY ASPECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY INSTRUMENTS 156
1 Introduction 156
2 Environmental Policy as Economic Policy 157
3 The Playground Environmental Policy 159
4 Rent Seeking in the Framework of Environmental Policy 160
5 Conclusions 164
References 164
CHAPTER 9. LEGAL ASPECTS OF MARKETABLE POLLUTION PERMITS 166
1 Introduction 166
2 Objectives of this Paper 168
3 The Concept of a Permit Market 169
4 Juridical Principles for Regulation 170
5 Some Important Legal Aspects with Regard to the Design of a Permit Market 171
6 Provisions to Make the Market Work 177
7 Conclusions 178
References 179
CHAPTER 10. THE FIRM AS AN ACTOR IN AN ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY 182
1 Introduction 182
2 The Firm as a Maximising Machine in a Closed System: The Neoclassical View 183
3 The Firm as an Organisation in an Ecological Economy: An Evolutionary Approach 189
4 The Firm as an Element of Evolutionary Internalisation 198
5 Conclusions 208
References 208
PART IV: ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 210
CHAPTER 11. CARBON TAXES AND THE UK MANUFACTURING SECTOR 212
1 Introduction 212
2 Background Literature 214
3 The Model 216
4 Description of Simulations 224
5 Conclusions 248
References 253
CHAPTER 12. CONSEQUENCES OF AMMONIA EMISSION ABATEMENT POLICIES FOR AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE IN THE NETHERLANDS 256
1 Introduction 256
2 Nitrogen Flows and Policy Proposals 259
3 The Economic Model 269
4 Simulation Results 285
5 Final Remarks and Conclusions 293
References 293
CHAPTER 13. INNOVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: THE CASE OF EC AND US AGRICULTURE 296
1 Introduction 296
2 The Model 298
3 Parameter Values and Data Sources 303
4 Effects of Technical Change 305
5 Conclusions 311
References 312
CHAPTER 14. ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY INSINGLE-PRODUCT AND JOINT PRODUCTION INPUT-OUTPUT MODELS 314
1 Introduction 314
2 Leontief's Extended System 315
3 A New System 323
4 The Commodity-By-Industry Accounts 330
5 A New Commodity-By-Industry System 337
6 Summary 340
INDEX 344

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.10.2013
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
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Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
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ISBN-10 1-4832-9118-9 / 1483291189
ISBN-13 978-1-4832-9118-5 / 9781483291185
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