The economics of environmental protection
Subtitle: theory and demand revelation
By: Peter Bohm.
Series: New horizons in environmental economics
Publisher: E. Elgar Pub.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Lyme, NH, US
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Environmental protection -- Economic aspects.; Externalities (Economics); Public goods.
Description: The Economics of Environmental Protection presents a selection of Peter Bohm's most important essays on policy issues concerning externalities and public goods. Most of the issues related to environmental policy.

The book revolves around two major - and quite differentthemes: the search for efficient instruments for environmental policy, in particular global environmental policy, and mechanisms for revealing the demand for public goods as, for example, environmental protection.

Within this framework issues discussed include: the concept of externalities, an efficiency comparison of environmental policy instruments, policies to protect the ozone layer, trade in CO[subscript 2] quotas as an efficient policy to reduce risk of climatic change, and the feasibility of eliciting parties' willingness to pay for environmental protection and other public goods.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.