Incentives for Environmental Protection - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262192136 ISBN 13 : 9780262192132

Editeur : The MIT Press, 1983

Synopsis

This book explores the extent to which pricing incentives such as charges on emissions; in contrast to regulatory standards, can be shaped into a practical policy that is technically effective, politically enactable, administratively enforceable, and equitable. It also compares he advantages and disadvantages of this approach to those that characterize the policy of compliance to regulatory standards. And it identifies the criteria on which either pricing mechanisms or regulatory standards should be based. Three case studies comprise the heart of the book. One investigates carcinogenic chemical emissions, another audits the tradeoffs in controlling aircraft noise near major airports, and the third treats the protection of air quality from pollution by primarily stationary sources. The case studies are introduced by a chapter that gives numerous examples of possible pricing approaches and identifies common lessons that the three diverse studies reinforce.: The studies are followed by a chapter which is based on interviews with Congressional staff, environmentalists, and industrial lobbyists and other interest groups in Washington, revealing their assessments of pricing mechanisms in environmental protection.

The book is fifth in the series, Regulation of Economic Activity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Thomas C. Schelling is affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

David Harrison, Jr. is affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Albert Nichols is affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Robert Repetto is affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Steve Kelman is affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Trevor Pinch is Goldwin Smith Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University and coeditor of The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (anniversary edition, MIT Press).

Richard L. Schmalensee is John C. Head III Dean and Professor of Management and Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is co-editor of Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future (MIT Press, 2003).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0262192136
• ISBN 13: 9780262192132
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Éditeur: Schelling Thomas C.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible