This paper reviews several aspects of Poland’s environmental policies. Its main finding is that substantial progress has been made in dealing with the environmentally unfriendly legacy from the past. Poland has successfully combined emission permits based on environmental quality standards,...

Ce document analyse certains aspects économiques de la politique de l'environnement en France, en se concentrant sur les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, la pollution de l'eau et les rejets dans l'air en milieu urbain. Comme la plupart des autres pays de l'OCDE, la France cherche depuis...

Air pollution caused by motor vehicles is a major environmental problem in many Latin American urban centers. If appropriate measures are not taken soon, vehicular air pollution in the region is likely to worsen, posing a great threat to human health and welfare. This report analyzes the...

This paper makes some steps toward a formal political economy of environmental policy. Economists' quasi-unanimous preferences for sophisticated incentive regulation is reconsidered.

Many problems in the environmental sciences have a spatial component. This is particularly true when questions arise about how species act and interact at community and regional levels, in response to environmental changes. I make the case for Bayesian hierarchical models to play a dominant role...