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Controlling groundwater pollution from agricultural nonpoint sources: An overview of policy instruments

Dosi, Cesare; Zeitouni, Naomi - 2000

The aim of this paper is to provide a review of policy instruments aimed at controlling pollution from agricultural … the nature, extent, and social costs of groundwater pollution from agricultural diffuse sources. Secondly, policies aimed … at controlling pollution from agricultural sources have usually relied, and still largely rely upon what is often …

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Negotiation between authority and polluters: Model for support of decision-making in environmental policy. Principles and experimental case test

Sauer, Petr; Dvorák, Antonín; Fiala, Petr - 2000

The paper describes a relatively new approach to pollution reduction problem solving that relies on negotiation between … agreements between authorities and polluters. Design and results of a laboratory environmental policy experiment on air pollution … new institution for environmental pollution management in practice is the most important result. The case also shows the …

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Comparing price and non-price approaches to urban water conservation

Olmstead, Sheila M.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2008

particular uses and requirements for the installation of particular technologies. A significant shift has occurred in pollution …-effective than implementing non-price conservation programs, similar to results for pollution control in earlier decades. Price …

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Analysis and Evaluation of Ecosystem Resilience: An Economic Perspective

Vergano, Lucia; Nunes, Paulo A.L.D. - 2006

This paper focuses on the analyses and evaluation of resilience anchored in an economic perspective. Resilience, as well as most of the benefits provided by ecosystems, is not priced on current markets. However, this does not mean that resilience is of no value for humans. On the contrary, the...

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Does government precommitment promote environmental innovation?

Petrakis, Emmanuel; Xepapadeas, Anastasios P. - 1998

This paper investigates the effect of credibility of environmental policies on environmental innovation and welfare. When the government precommits to an emission tax, the monopolist's abatement effort is lower than if the environmental policy is at the government's discretion. Time consistent...

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Early crediting of emissions reduction: A panacea or Pandora's Box?

Michaelowa, Axel; Stronzik, Marcus - 1999

The Kyoto Protocol sets legally binding emission targets for industrialised countries without accounting for reductions carried out prior to 2008, the beginning of the first commitment period. There exists only one exception, the project-based Clean Development Mechanism where credits accrue...

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Environmental policy and firm behaviour: Abatement investment and location decisions under uncertainty and irreversibility

Xepapadeas, Anastasios - 1999

The paper explores abatement investment and location responses to environmental policy, which takes the form of emission taxes or tradable emission permits and subsidies against the costs of abatement investment, under uncertainty and irreversibility. Uncertainty is associated with output price,...

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Juridical framework of voluntary agreements in Italy and policy relevance at the local level

Milizia, Paola; Tamborra, Marialuisa - 2000

This paper investigates the existing Italian regulation regarding the so-called "administration by agreements" and the possibility to adapt the existing legal system to voluntary agreements in the environmental field in the light of the European guidelines on this issue. The research consists of...

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Adaptation, mitigation and 'green' R&D to combat global climate change: Insights from an empirical integrated assessment exercise

Bosello, Francesco - 2010

mitigation policies. The FEEM-RICE growth model with stock pollution, endogenous R&D investment and emission abatement is …

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On national and international trade in greenhouse gas emission permits

Rehdanz, Katrin; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2002

This paper considers the question under what conditions domestic markets of emission permits would and should merge to become an international market. Emission permits are licenses, and so governments would need to recognize other countries’ permits. In a two-county model, we find that it is...

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