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Book Synopsis Potential Benefits of Integration of Environmental and Economic Policies by : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Download or read book Potential Benefits of Integration of Environmental and Economic Policies written by Office for Official Publications of the European Communities and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability by : Paul Ekins
Download or read book Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability written by Paul Ekins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key area of public policy in the last twenty years is the question of how, and how much, to protect vthe environment. At the heart of this has been the heated debate over the nature of the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability. Is environemental sustainability economic growth or `green growth', a contradiction in terms? Avoiding the confusion that often surrounds these issues, Ekins provides rigorous expositions of the concept of sustainability, integrated environmental and economic accounting, the Environmental Kuznets Curve, the economics of climate change and environmental taxation. Individual chapters are organised as self-contained, state-of-the-art expositions of the core issues of environmental economics, with extensive cross-referencing from one chapter to another, in order to guide the student or policy-maker through these complex problems. Paul Ekins breaks new ground in defining the conditions of compatibility between economic growth and environmental sustainability, and provides measures and criteria by which the environmental sustainability of economic growth, as it occurs in the real world, may be judged. It is argued that `green growth' is not only theoretically possible but economically achievable and the authors show what environmental and economic policies are required to achieve this. Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability will be welcolmed by students of and researchers in environmental economics and environmental studies, as well as all interested policy-makers.
Book Synopsis Potential Benefits of Integration of Environmental and Economic Policies by : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Download or read book Potential Benefits of Integration of Environmental and Economic Policies written by Office for Official Publications of the European Communities and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Politics of Sustainable Development by : Susan Baker
Download or read book Politics of Sustainable Development written by Susan Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of sustainable development was popularised by the 1987 Brundtland Report and became a central theme in the EU's Fifth Environmental Action Programme. It dominated the Rio Earth Summit and its promotion has been much in evidence in the subseque
Download or read book Ecotaxation written by Timothy O'Riordan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecotaxation covers two distinct ideas. To date, it has largely been associated with the 'polluter pays' principle, in the form of correctional charges imposed on activities which have a demonstrably damaging effect on the quality of life or the environment. The other involves a more ambitious policy shift, aiming to put taxation onto a different basis, away from income and labour, and onto resource-depleting and environmentally damaging activities. By going further, and directing the additional revenue towards environmentally supportive and socially improving ends, it can be part of the fiscal basis for sustainable development. This volume explores the history of both ideas, but with more emphasis on the wider-ranging policy alternatives that ecotaxation represents. The contributors look at the mixed records of the correctional economic instruments which have been introduced, suggesting that unless they are integrated into a more comprehensive package of reforms, they are not likely to have much effect on the direction of an already unsustainable economy. On the other hand, taxation has the potential not only to stimulate sustainable forms of economic activity but also, by lowering the costs of work and employment, to create jobs and greater social justice. At a time when governments' room for manoeuvre is being more and more restricted by conflicting social, economic and environmental commitments and pressures, revenue-neutral ecotaxation has a crucial role to play in reconciling those objectives and putting policy onto a new and lasting footing.
Book Synopsis Environmental Management in Practice: Vol 1 by : Paul Compton
Download or read book Environmental Management in Practice: Vol 1 written by Paul Compton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the instruments and tools currently available to the environmental manager. A theoretical background to the instruments is given together with an overview of those instruments that are in common use today, with particular attention to the physical, economic, legislative and communication instruments.
Book Synopsis Tomorrow's World by : Duncan McLaren
Download or read book Tomorrow's World written by Duncan McLaren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title uses the concept of environmental space to resolve many of the issues facing us in the future and applies the lessons specifically to the UK. Believing that we occupy more environmental space than the world can afford, this book seeks to explain what we can do to live comfortably within what we actually have through efficiency and sufficiency. In addition, it aims to present the sustainable levels of consumption for Britain as targets for government, industry and households, as well as an idea of how to achieve them.
Book Synopsis Goals and Economic Instruments for the Achievement of Global Warming Mitigation in Europe by : Jürgen Hacker
Download or read book Goals and Economic Instruments for the Achievement of Global Warming Mitigation in Europe written by Jürgen Hacker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change poses important challenges to research and policy. Within three decades, an issue that was initially confined to the attention of a few scientists became the topic of large-scale research programmes, national and European policies and an international Convention. While significant uncertainties remain on the timing and scale of the changes to be expected and of their impacts, an appreci ation emerged of the high ecological, economic, political and social stakes involved and lead to governmental, business and citizens' initiatives. After focusing on the understanding of climate processes and the possible impacts of climate change on ecosystems, European research - and international research more generally - started addressing also the social, economic and policy causes of and responses to climate change. In the meantime, local, national and European measures started being developed to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions, a European target was agreed to achieve the stabilization of carbon dioxide by 2000 at the levels of 1990, the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) was adopted and was followed by its Kyoto Protocol.
Book Synopsis Cents and Sustainability by : Michael H. Smith
Download or read book Cents and Sustainability written by Michael H. Smith and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cents and Sustainability is a clear-sighted response to the 1987 call by Dr Gro Brundtland in Our Common Future to achieve a new era of economic growth that is 'forceful and at the same time socially and environmentally sustainable'. The Brundtland Report argued that not only was it achievable, but that it was an urgent imperative in order to achieve a transition to sustainable development while significantly reducing poverty and driving 'clean and green' investment. With some still arguing for significantly slowing economic growth in order to reduce pressures on the environment, this new book.
Book Synopsis Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade Liberalisation Agreements Methodologies by : OECD
Download or read book Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade Liberalisation Agreements Methodologies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000-02-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference proceedings examines how to assess the environmental effects of trade liberalisation agreements.
Book Synopsis The Fiscal System and the Polluter Pays Principle by : Alan Barrett
Download or read book The Fiscal System and the Polluter Pays Principle written by Alan Barrett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, this volume describes the theoretical underpinning of the Polluter Pays Principle as a means to deliver environmental benefits and reduce perverse incentives. By systematically examining each major sector of the economy to identify environmental issues, it considers how the principle can be applied to the Irish fiscal system and then proposes alterations to the system in an environmentally friendly and socially sensitive direction. Sectors explored include agriculture and forestry, environmental services for wastewater treatment, water supply and for waste disposal, energy, transport, tourism and construction.
Book Synopsis New Environmental Policy Instruments in the European Union by : Ian Bailey
Download or read book New Environmental Policy Instruments in the European Union written by Ian Bailey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of legislation by EU governments to define environmental standards for industry has been criticised for its poor track record in arresting the decline in the quality of Europe's environment. Environmental economists in particular have proposed that legislation should be supplemented or replaced by New Environmental Policy Instruments (NEPIs), such as eco-taxes, environmental charges, tradable permits and voluntary agreements. This book focuses on practical experiences with NEPIs in the EU and tests their application using the case study of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive. It traces the ways in which member states have adapted NEPIs to suit their preferred styles of environmental policy, then assesses their performance and how NEPIs have both assisted and hindered the EU environmental programme. It suggests options for ensuring that the environmental programme does not become fragmented by the use of NEPIs and discusses the implications of EU enlargement.
Book Synopsis Factor Five by : Ernst Ulrich Weizsäcker
Download or read book Factor Five written by Ernst Ulrich Weizsäcker and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 21st century will see monumental change. Either the human race will use its knowledge and skills and change the way it interacts with the environment, or the environment will change the way it interacts with its inhabitants. In the first case, the focus of this book, we would see our sophisticated understanding in areas such as physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, planning, commerce, business and governance accumulated over the last 1,000 years brought to bear on the challenge of dramatically reducing our pressure on the environment. The second case however is the opposite scenario, involving the decline of the planet's ecosystems until they reach thresholds where recovery is not possible, and following which we have no idea what happens. For instance, if we fail to respond to Sir Nicolas Stern's call to meet appropriate stabilisation trajectories for greenhouse gas emissions, and we allow the average temperature of our planets surface to increase by 4-6 degrees Celsius, we will see staggering changes to our environment, including rapidly rising sea level, withering crops, diminishing water reserves, drought, cyclones, floods ... allowing this to happen will be the failure of our species, and those that survive will have a deadly legacy. In this update to the 1997 International Best Seller, Factor Four, Ernst von Weizsäcker again leads a team to present a compelling case for sector wide advances that can deliver significant resource productivity improvements over the coming century. The purpose of this book is to inspire hope and to then inform meaningful action in the coming decades to respond to the greatest challenge our species has ever faced 6 that of living in harmony with our planet and its other inhabitants."--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis Global Competition and EU Environmental Policy by : Jonathan Golub
Download or read book Global Competition and EU Environmental Policy written by Jonathan Golub and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-03-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine the relationship between economic competitiveness and environmental protection in European Union policy. It contains a wide range of international case studies.
Book Synopsis The Macroeconomic Effects of Environmental Taxes by : Ms.Jenny Elisabeth Ligthart
Download or read book The Macroeconomic Effects of Environmental Taxes written by Ms.Jenny Elisabeth Ligthart and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews recent literature on the macroeconomic effects of environmental taxes. It attempts to delineate the conditions under which a cleaner environment is compatible with attaining macroeconomic objectives, such as more employment and economic growth. The analysis reveals that an environmentally motivated fiscal reform—using the revenues from environmental taxes to cut labor taxes—may yield employment and environmental dividends if the tax burden can be shifted to agents outside the labor market, such as capitalists, transfer recipients, and foreigners. A cleaner environment and a higher rate of economic growth go hand in hand if the environment is considered an important public input into production.
Book Synopsis The Politics of the Real World by : Michael Jacobs
Download or read book The Politics of the Real World written by Michael Jacobs and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Cases in Climate Change Policy by : Ragnar E. Lofsted
Download or read book Cases in Climate Change Policy written by Ragnar E. Lofsted and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines case studies on EU countries' policy to combat climate change, examining the constraints of and opportunities for the implementation of climate change strategies in these countries. The introductory section provides an overview of the climate change problem and its potential effects, examining the roles of different greenhouse gases, the main emission sources, the likely consequences of climate change and the scope for abatement and adapation. The second part consists of six detailed case studies on diverse national strategies. The book concludes with a comparative analysis of the findings of the case studies, and suggestions for approaches to implement emission reduction strategies.
