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The Existence and Uniqueness of Optimal Pollution Policy in the Presence of Victim Defense Measures.

McKitrick, R.; Collinge, R.A. - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 1998

It is to be expected that rational peole defend themselves against pollution externalities, at the very least through …

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International Emission Trading Systems: Trade Level and Political Acceptability.

Boom, J.-T.; Svendsen, G.T. - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 1999

The Kyoto Protocol of December 1997 allows emission trade between countries that have committed themselves to an emission ceiling. This paper considers two schemes of emission trading: trade between goverments and trade between emision sources. The two schemes are analyzed and the strengths and...

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Controlling Great Lakes Pollution : A Study in United States - Canadian Environmental Cooperation

Bilder, Richard - 2013

boundary water pollution problems and, in particular, the 1909 U.S.-Canada Boundary Waters Treaty, the U ….S.-Canada International Joint Commission and its procedures, the Commission’s activities regarding pollution prior to 1971, and the proposed … in attempting to deal jointly with Great Lakes and other boundary water pollution and other problems including: (1) the …

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Achieving Early and Substantial Greenhouse Gas Reductions Under a Post-Kyoto Agreement

Dernbach, John C. - 2013

This article explains why policy makers should seriously consider substantial early reductions in greenhouse gas emissions as a part of any post-Kyoto framework, and sets out suggested elements of a framework for early action in a post-Kyoto agreement. Substantial early reductions are needed...

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Property Rights and Environmental Quality : A Cross-Country Study

Kerekes, Carrie - 2013

Public policy often regards pollution and other measures of poor environmental quality as public bads that result from … this article, I argue that pollution and environmental quality should instead be regarded from a property rights … of pollution and an overall improvement in environmental quality. Using cross-country data, I examine the relationship …

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Chapter 9. Experience with Market-Based Environmental Policy Instruments

Stavins, Robert N. - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 355-435). 2003

Environmental policies typically combine the identification of a goal with some means to achieve that goal. This chapter focuses exclusively on the second component, the means – the “instruments” – of environmental policy, and considers, in particular, experience around the world with...

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Comparing Policies to Improve Water Quality When Dischargers of Pollutants are Strategic

Moledina, Amyaz A. - 2013

-point sources of pollution discharge into a river However sources of pollution discharge often have more information about their own … costs of pollution abatement than do regulators. This information asymmetry may lead to strategic behavior which can lead to …

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The Likely Regional Impacts of an Agricultural Emissions Policy in New Zealand : Preliminary Analysis

Sin, Isabelle; Brunton, Emma; Hendy, Joanna; Kerr, Suzi - 2015

Hendy and Kerr (2005b) find that an emissions charge on agricultural methane and nitrous oxide of $25 per tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent would be likely to reduce New Zealand's net land-use related emissions for commitment period one in the order of 3%, with full accounting. The costs...

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Chapter 11. Technological change and the Environment

Jaffe, Adam B.; Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 461-516). 2003

Environmental policy discussions increasingly focus on issues related to technological change. This is partly because the environmental consequences of social activity are frequently affected by the rate and direction of technological change, and partly because environmental policy interventions...

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Chapter 10. Experimental Evaluations of Policy Instruments

Bohm, Peter - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 437-460). 2003

Experimental methods have recently been used to evaluate environmental policy instruments, in particular – and most suitably, it seems – emissions trading programs of various designs. Some studies have focused on domestic emissions trading programs, while others have focused on international...

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