Economic Policy for the Environment and Natural Resources
Subtitle: Techniques for the Management and Control of Pollution (New Horizons in Environmental Economics)
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing; E. Elgar
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781858984131
Subjects: Central government policies; Environmental economics; International economics; Pollution & threats to the environment; Pollution; Environmental Studies; Natural Resources Management; Business & Economics; Business/Economics; Europe; Environmental policy; Environmental Science; Economics - General; Air; Economic aspects; Environmental protection
Description: Economic Policy for the Environment and Natural Resources presents some of the most important recent work on the theory and application of environmental policy at both the national and international level. At the national level it focuses on instruments for pollution control. At the international level it discusses measures to promote international cooperation for the protection of the environment.

The book covers a wide range of major issues including the legal aspects of environmental protection, environmental policy under oligopolistic conditions, voluntary agreements as a policy instrument, participation in international coalitions and environmental policy in dynamic trade models. In discussing the applications of environmental policy, it includes issues such as the profitability of emission-saving techniques, water management and acid rain models.

This book will be essential reading for both policy makers and professional economists who are concerned with environmental policy.