The aim of this paper is to review the insights on the desirability and possibilities for using economic policy instruments to reach sustainable use of water. Special attention will be paid to the scope for price instruments and privatisation and liberalisation of the sector as these feature...

Water is the sector most comprehensively covered in European Union’s environmental policy. An initial wave of directives accounting for public health protection and for harmonisation of environmental rules in the common market was followed by a call for a policy reform to address more properly...

The aim of this paper is to review the insights on the desirability and possibilities for using economic policy instruments to reach sustainable use of water. Special attention will be paid to the scope for price instruments and privatisation and liberalisation of the sector as these feature...

Water is the sector most comprehensively covered in European Union's environmental policy. An initial wave of directives accounting for public health protection and for harmonisation of environmental rules in the common market was followed by a call for a policy reform to address more properly...

Meta-analysis refers to the statistical analysis of empirical estimates obtained in previous studies, and is increasingly used in environmental and natural resource economics as a complement to a state-of-the-art literature review. The occurrence of dependence or auto-correlation among study...

Meta-analysis refers to the statistical analysis of empirical estimates obtained in previous studies, and is increasingly used in environmental and natural resource economics as a complement to a state-of-the-art literature review. The occurrence of dependence or auto-correlation among study...

A sustainable development has become an important policy aim in many countries. This concept is recently fine-tuned towards clearly demarcated economic sectors, such as the transport sector. This article is about sustainable transport or mobility. A review is presented of various aspects that...

Environmental issues have received a prominent place in transport policies of most European countries. The coordination of such policies however, is fraught with many difficulties. The increasing freight flows after the European integration are a source of concern, but have not yet led to...

Via een materiaal-produkt keten benadering worden interacties tussen materialen- en produktstromen voor een bepaalde dienst of service bekeken met als doel het verminderen van milieudruk door het inzetten van (economische) instrumenten. Deze benadering bekijkt de stromen economisch, fysiek en...

Een maatschappelijke kosten/baten analyse (KBA) kan ook bij complexe, wereldwijde "wicked" milieuproblemen met grote kennisleemten en onzekerheden van nut zijn. Wel verliest de KBA dan iets van de gebruikelijke functie als rekenmethode. Naarmate de problematiek complexer is en de onzekerheden...