Environmental markets
Subtitle: equity and efficiency
By: edited by Graciela Chichilnisky and Geoffrey Heal
Contributors: Chichilnisky, Graciela; Heal, G. M
Series: Economics for a sustainable earth series
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Emissions trading; Carbon taxes; Sustainable development; Environmental policy; International economic relations
Description: "Environmental Markets: Equity and Efficiency represents a systematic and in-depth study of the economic issues raised by this growing use of environmental markets. Focusing on the relationship between equity and efficiency - which is central to many of the debates between industrial and developing countries - the book explores the underlying economics and the possibilities for win-win solutions that benefit all parties to the problems."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Markets for tradable carbon dioxide emission quotas: principles and practice / Graciela Chichilnisky and Geoffrey Heal; title: Equity and efficiency in environmental markets: global trade in carbon dioxide emissions / Graciela Chichilnisky, Geoffrey Heal, and David Starrett; title: Emissions constraints, emission permits, and marginal abatement costs / Geoffrey Heal; title: Equilibrium and efficiency: international emission permits markets / Geoffrey Heal and Yun Lin; title: Efficiency properties of a constant-ratio mechanism for the distribution of tradable emission permits / Andrea Prat; title: Who should abate carbon emissions? an international viewpoint / Graciela Chichilnisky and Geoffrey Heal; title: Differentiated or uniform international carbon taxes: theoretical evidences and procedural constraints / Jean-Charles Hourcade and Laurent Gilotte; title: Efficiency and distribution in computable models of carbon emission abatement / Joaquim Oliveira Martins and Peter Sturm; title: Securitizing the biosphere / Graciela Chichilnisky and Geoffrey Heal; title: Equity and efficiency in emission markets: the case for an international bank for environmental settlements / Graciela Chichilnisky; title: The clean development mechanism: unwrapping the "Kyoto surprise" / Jacob Werksman; title: Knowledge and the environment: markets with privately produced public goods / Graciela Chichilnisky; title: A commentary on the Kyoto protocol / Raúl Estrada-Oyuela; title: Appendix : The Kyoto protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change