Focusing regional and environmental policies in the EU through the development of environmental quality indices

✍ Scribed by Giannias, Dimitrios ;Liargovas, Panagiotis

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 237 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0961-0405
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0976(199805/06)8:3<86::aid-eet155>3.0.co;2-q

✦ Synopsis

This paper puts forward a theoretical framework to assist the formulation and implementation of regional policy based on the development of environmental indices. This framework can be used to classify European Union countries according to the extent to which they are influenced by supply-side (producer) and demand-side (consumer) responses to their specific bundle of economic and environmental attributes. This kind of classification is useful because it provides information about the relative attractiveness to producers and consumers of the combination of economic and environmental attributes indigenous to each region. It therefore has implications for the design and focus of the regional and environmental policies of the European Union.