Environmental Policy: Objectives, Instruments, and Implementation / Edition 1

by Dieter Helm

Overview

This volume addresses the practical issues that arise in applying economic instruments to environmental policy. It surveys the main concepts and tools—such as sustainability, biodiversity, and cost-benefit analysis—and analyzes the broad environmental policy agenda, including the global agreement on climate change and the narrow British context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199241361
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/15/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dieter Helm is a member of the DTIs Energy Advisory Panel and chairman of the DETRs Academic Panel. He is an Associate Editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and editor of The Utilities Journal. He has advised government and industry in the UK, USA, New Zealand, Japan, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Argentina, Germany, and France.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Dieter Helm, OxfordPart One: Principles2. Objectives, Instruments, and Institutions, Dieter Helm3. CostBenefit Analysis, David Pearce4. Environmental and Public Finance Aspects of the Taxation of Energy, Stephen Smith5. Sustainable Development and Policy, Giles Atkinson6. Making Things Stick: Enforcement and Compliance, Anthony HeyesPart Two: Policy7. Political Economy of the Kyoto Protocol, Scott Barrett8. Bartering Biodiversity: What are the Options?, David MacdonaldPart Three: Sectors9. Water Pollution and Abstraction and Economic Instruments, Simon Cowan10. Agri-environmental Policy: A UK Perspective, Ian Hodge11. Transport and the Environment, Chris Nash12. Landfill Levy, Jane Powell and Inger Brisson