The public provision of information about the environmental performance of firms and products has generated considerable enthusiasm and become a common instrument of environmental regulation, even though the economic analysis of the social welfare properties of these policies is quite limited....

Important economic thinkers such as Sen, Arrow and Harsanyi have argued for the existence of multiple preference orderings, allowing individuals to make choices, both when only private welfare is at stake and when the good of some collective is involved. Further, recent literature has shown that...

Provision of information on the environmental effects of consumption is often put forward as an appealing alternative to traditional means of environmental regulation such as permits and environmental taxes. When consumers in opinion polls are asked if their purchasing decisions would be...

Investing in Water Quality: Measuring Benefits, Costs and Risks, explores the methods and analytical tools available for making better investment decisions when our knowledge of the costs and benefits of water quality improvement is imprecise and the future is uncertain. The study demonstrates...

This working paper contains a review and analysis of environmental policy tools in Latin America. It contains a review of the instruments themselves and their properties are discussed in both static and dynamic contexts. The report brings together the institutional and more narrowly economic...

El tema central es de la II Reunión de la Red de Medio Ambiente del Diálogo Regional de Políticas que tuvo lugar el 25 y 26 de febrero del 2003, es "la aplicación de instrumentos económicos en la gestión del agua y residuos sólidos". Esta reunión ha estado informada, en la parte...

El interés en los problemas ambientales de los países en desarrollo ha dado lugar a una cantidad cada vez mayor de obras teóricas sobre la selección de instrumentos de política, en las cuales se tiende a propugnar que los países en desarrollo adopten y establezcan sistemas de manejo...

This study uses contingent valuation (CV) methods to estimate the benefit of an environmental water quality project of the Tietê River and its tributaries that flow through the São Paulo, Brazil, Metropolitan Area (SPMA). This paper demonstrates the range alternative central tendency measures...