A suitable strategy for achieving sustainable development is to foster environmental innovations. Environmental innovations, however, suffer from so-called double externalities, because apart from innovation spillovers they also improve the quality of public environmental goods, which can be...

The main objective of the European Council Directive 96/61/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control is to achieve an integrated approach of environmental protection by co-ordinating the authorization procedures of the competent authorities. However, by prescribing the permit...

This paper considers environmental labelling (or ecolabelling for short) as an informational instrument of environmental policy. It examines some economic aspects of environmental labelling, for example, the function of product certification to overcome market failures for environmental superior...

In reviewing Environmental Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany, one notices a domination of interventionist approaches in the most important areas. This contribution sheds light upon those economic conceptions opposing the command-and- control approach to environmental policy. Currently,...

A suitable strategy for achieving sustainable development is to foster environmental innovations. Environmental innovations, however, suffer from so-called "double externalities", because apart from innovation spillovers they also improve the quality of public environmental goods, which can be...

Since 1975 the European Union has developed an impressive body of waste management legislation, though, according to the principle of subsidiarity, responsibilities belong to the most local level at which the tasks can be carried out effectively. This paper examines several factors that...