Public Choice and Environmental Regulation: Tradable Permit Systems in the United States and Co2 Taxation in Europe - Couverture rigide

Svendsen, Gert T.

 
9781858986289: Public Choice and Environmental Regulation: Tradable Permit Systems in the United States and Co2 Taxation in Europe
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1858986281 ISBN 13 : 9781858986289
Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

What is the appropriate design for environmental regulation? Gert Tinggaard Svendsen sheds new light on the appropriate mix of economic instruments to implement environmental regulation in the context of the world-wide attempts to abate CO2 emissions.

Gert Tinggaard Svendsen offers a detailed and comprehensive study of two alternative methods for controlling CO2 emissions - tradable permits and taxation - using examples of varying success from the United States and Europe. He applies a blend of environmental economic theory and public choice theory to analyse these methods and reveals that they both have merits. He proposes a design incorporating the best features of the two approaches because it is both cost-effective and politically and administratively feasible. In the case of C02 regulation, a CO2 permit market based on the US experience with free historical emissions should be applied in relation to industry, electric utilities and environmental organisations. The author proposes that a CO2 tax should be applied to non-organized interests, such as households and the transport sector, based on the EU experience. In particular, these policy recommendations are applied to potential CO2 permit markets in Europe and the United States.

The interdisciplinary approach and the resulting policy recommendations make this book relevant to policymakers and academics across the social sciences. It will be particularly pertinent to those interested in environmental economics and public choice economics.

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À propos de l?auteur

Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, Professor of Comparative Politics, Aarhus University, Denmark

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Éditeur
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1858986281
ISBN 13 
9781858986289
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
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Personne responsable
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