Environmental Policy and the Economy

✍ Scribed by Frank J. Dietz, Frederick van der Ploeg and Jan van der Straaten (Eds.)

• Publisher: North-Holland
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 325
• Series: Contributions to Economic Analysis 206
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Contributions to Economic Analysis
Page ii

Front Matter
Page iii

Copyright page
Page iv

Introduction to the Series
Page V

Preface
Page vii
Frank Dietz, Frederick van der Ploeg, Jan van der Straaten

List of Contributors
Pages ix-xii

1 - Environmental Policy and the Economy: An Introduction
Pages 1-16
Frank J. Dietz, Frederick van der Ploeg, Jan van der Straaten

2 - Three Decades of Environmental-Economic Modelling: Economic Models of Pollutant Emissions
Pages 19-45
Wim Hafkamp

3 - Optimal Growth with Stock Pollution
Pages 47-60
Olli Tahvonen, Jari Kuuluvainen

4 - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Planet Earth
Pages 61-74
Henk Peer

5 - Preference Learning and Contingent Valuation Methods
Pages 77-93
Thomas D. Crocker, Jason F. Shogren

6 - The Economic Value of Wilderness Areas: An Application to the Krutilla-Fisher Model to Scotland's ‘Flow Country’
Pages 95-116
Nick Hanley, Stephen Craig

7 - Ecological Perception and Distributional Conflicts : A Historical View
Pages 117-137
Joan Martinez-Alier

8 - Political Economy Aspects of Environmental Policy Instruments
Pages 141-149
Harmen Verbruggen

9 - Legal Aspects of Marketable Pollution Permits
Pages 151-165
Marjan G.W.M. Peeters

10 - The Firm as an Actor in an Ecological Economy
Pages 167-194
Frank Beckenbach

11 - Carbon Taxes and the UK Manufacturing Sector
Pages 197-239
Alan Ingham, Alistair Ulph

12 - Consequences of Ammonia Emission Abatement Policies for Agricultural Practice in the Netherlands
Pages 241-279
Paul J.J. Veenendaal, Floor M. Brouwer

13 - Innovation and Environmental Quality: The Case of EC And US Agriculture
Pages 281-298
David G. Abler, James S. Shortle

14 - Environmental Policy in Single-Product and Joint Production Input-Output Models
Pages 299-328
Annemarth M. Idenburg, Albert E. Steenge

Index
Pages 329-331