Using Japanese facility-level data from an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development survey, we estimate the effects of implementation of ISO14001 and publication of environmental reports on the facilities' environmental performance. While most previous studies focused on an index...

National government-funded payments for environmental services (PES) programs often lack sustainable financing and fail to target payments to providers of important environmental services. In principle, these problems can be mitigated by supplementing government financing with contributions from...

Die hier vorgestellten Überlegungen nehmen direkt Bezug auf die im Zuge der projektinternen Synopse identifizierten Unzulänglichkeiten aktuell diskutierter Wohlfahrts- und grüner Wachstumskonzepte in ihrem Verhältnis zu dem bislang in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland etablierten...

The reflections presented here are directly related to the shortcomings concerning welfare and 'green' growth concepts identified in the course of the research project Cornerstones of an ecologically sustainable welfare concept as a basis for eco-political innovation and transformation processes...

This paper is part of the research project Cornerstones of an ecologically sustainable welfare concept as a basis for eco-political innovation and transformation processes funded by the German Ministry of Environment. The main aim is to identify differentiated and exemplary starting points for...

The world has just recognized that market failures of the global financial system have the power to destroy the entire economy. Short term profit maximization and wrong prices of the products are the problematic factors. Even the CEO`s of leading financial institutions demand a framework of...

Over the coming decades, the cost of U.S. climate change policy likely will be comparable to the total cost of all existing environmental regulation-perhaps 1-2 percent of national income. In order to avoid higher costs, policy efforts should create incentives for firms and individuals to pursue...

We examine the extent to which various environmental policy instruments meet major evaluation criteria, including cost-effectiveness, distributional equity, minimization of risk in the presence of uncertainty, and political feasibility. Instruments considered include emissions taxes, tradable...