This review aims to improve our understanding of the implications of the insights from behavioural economics for environmental policy design. The review focuses on the question of incentive design in two broad areas — risk, conflict and cooperation; and mechanism design. A number of lessons...

Nonpoint-source pollution (NPSP) poses a special challenge to society's ability to manage its collective environmental good - especially surface and groundwater quality. Since there is no `point', such as an outfall pipe, from which the pollution is being discharged and can be measured,...

1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 Political Competition Among Interest Groups -- 3 Bootleggers and Baptists in the Market for Regulation -- 4 Partial Regulation of Natural Monopoly -- 5 The Political Economy of Risk Communication Policies for Food and Alcoholic Beverages -- 6 Economic...