The municipal protection of inshore waters is part of the water supply industry. Both water supply service and waste water disposal is in succession brought force by a network of separate fresh water and waste water pipes, besides on a local scale. Environmental policy instruments of waters...

Standard analysis of the economics of environmental policy usually claims that emissions taxes induce a stronger incentive for an improvement in pollution abatement technologies than emission standards. In contrast, recent empirical studies within this field reveal that there is no systematic...

Conventional analysis of the economics of environmental policy usually claims that emission taxes induce a stronger incentive for an improvement in pollution abatement technologies compared to emission standards. In contrast, recent empirical studies reveal that there is no systematic...

The following paper discusses environmental agreements as a variant of cooperative or negotiated approaches. Environmental agreements are increasingly discussed as a new policy instrument to deal with environmental problems in a flexible manner at low cost. Environmental agreements are...

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between market dynamics, dynamic resource management and environmental policy. In contrast to static market entry games, this paper draws attention to the effects of market dynamics on resource dynamics et vice versa, because (1) we show that...

The key topic of this paper is to explain the above average increase of local waste charges in Germany, in addition the special importance of local within national environmental policies. The jump of waste charges, especially since 1990, has originated in the changed institutional setting of...

The function of communal water supply utilities is to provide consumers with high quality drinking water in sufficient quantities. On the other hand communal wastewater disposal utilities have to dispose the wastewater. In addition to this water prices and wastewater charges shall also give...

With the adoption of the „Directive 2003/87/EU of the European Parliament and the Council …“ greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the community will begin in 2005. Emission trading is a flexible instrument to abate emissions within the framework of the Kyoto-Protocol that...

The present situation in the utilization of waste products is characterized by the required achievement of rigorous environmental standards (pre-treatment of waste, sealing of dumps) and the decrease in the disposal of waste, as a result of the latter, an excess capacity of municipal waste...

At present, the utilization of waste products in Germany is characterized by the enforcement of rigorous environmental standards (pre-treatment of waste, sealing of dumps) and following from that a temporary capacity problem regarding the disposal of pre-treated household refuse and the...