Implementing Domestic Tradable Permits for Environmental Protection
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9789264181182
Subjects: Ecology; Euthenics; Nature and nurture; Adaptation (Biology)
Description: The use of tradable permit systems for the protection of the environment is attracting growing interest in many countries and on the international scene. While the United States’ practice has been extensively analysed, relatively little is known of experiments in other countries. This book reviews the issues related to the implementation of domestic tradable permits systems in different areas (air, water, land) and in several OECD countries. It addresses key questions such as : what lessons can be drawn from existing experience? Why has the introduction of tradable permits failed in some instances? How can tradable permits be combined with other policy instruments such as taxes? What are the competitiveness implications of tradable permit systems? Not only should the lessons drawn from existing experience help the further use of domestic systems, it should also provide helpful insights for the possible implementation of tradable permits at the international level, in particular for managing greenhouse gases.
Table of contents: title: Chapter I. Summary and Conclusions; title: Part I. Experiences with Existing Systems; title: Chapter II. Tradable Permits for Air Pollution Control: The US Experience by David Harrison, Jr.; title: Chapter III. Applicaton of Tradable Permits to Land-Use Management by Vincent Renard; title: Chapter IV. Tradable Permits in Water Resource Management and Water Pollution Control by R. Andreas Kraemer and Kai M.Banholzer; title: Chapter V. Transferable Fishing Quotas: Experience in OECD Countries by Paul Wallis; title: Part II. Obstacles to the Implementation of Tradable Permits: Lessons from Specific Projects; title: Chapter VI. Obstacles to the Implementation of Tradable Permits: The Case of Norway by Per Schreiner; title: Chapter VII. Obstacles to the Implementation of Tradable Permits: The Case of Poland by Tomasz Zylicz; title: Chapter VIII. Obstacles to the Implementation of Tradable Permits: The Case of Switzerland by Claude Jeanrenaud; title: Chapter IX. The Case of the UK: Sulphur Permit Quota Switching by Jennifer Steedman; title: Part III. Other Implementation Issues; title: Chapter X. The Compatability of Tradable Permits with Other Environmental Policy Instruments by Stephen Smith; title: Chapter XI. Tradable Permit Systems and Industrial Competitiveness: A Review of the Evidence by Nick Johnstone