Strategies of international risk management, as the implementation of tradable emission permits, feed back to the incentive structure of a treaty, like the Kyoto Protocol. Discussing the Kyoto Protocol the question was: Should there be any restrictions on the trading of emission permits or not?...

In this paper we evaluate the economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts of strategies for conserving Colombias rich natural capital endowment. Specifically, we consider Government program proposals for establishing Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), implementing more...

This study investigated the most efficient and successful approach (i.e. the pigovian tax or market for pollution rights) in Niger-Delta environmental pollution control. To achieve this objective, research questions were raised, hypotheses were formulated and a review of extent literature was...

Economic or market based installments for pollution control has been in the policy agenda of the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests for a decade now. In the meantime, the law of pollution liability endorsed through environmental public interest litigation (PIL), and resultant judicial...

First published in 1985, Emissions Trading was a comprehensive review of the first large-scale attempt to use economic incentives in environmental policy in the United States; since its publication it has consistently been one of the most widely cited works in the tradable permits literature....