Economic Institutions and Environmental Policy

Contents: Economic institutions and environmental policy: an introduction, Maurizio Franzini and Antonio Nicita. The Complexity of Evaluation Processes: Welfare indices and environmental accounting: a critical survey, Simone Borghesi and Silvia Tiezzi; Sustainable development and the valuation problem: option values as a guide-line for institutional choices, Marcello Basili. The Complexity of Institutional Arrangements: Voluntary approaches to environmental regulation, Thomas P. Lyon and John W. Maxwell; Economic institutions and common-pool resources: the role of exit costs in enforcing full co-operation, Antonio Nicita; Facing environmental bads: alternative property rights regimes for local and transnational commons, Massimo Di Matteo and Antonio Nicita. Evaluation Processes and Policy Choice: Exploring biophysical approaches to develop environmental taxation tools: envitax to face the new scarcity, Salvatore Bimonte and Sergio Ulgiati; The environmental Kuznets curve: a critical survey, Simone Borghesi; Environmental resources valuation as an institutional problem, Maurizio Franzini; Index.