Generation of drinking water from polluted raw water requires to reduce water pollution by overall emissions control, by technical raw water purification and/or by installing water protection areas. To achieve efficiency the purification effort must be equalised at all of these three margins. In...

Electric power is a commodity with a number of peculiarities that are often conjured when calling for shelter from competition in the electricity sector. Among those special features is the alleged difficulty or even failure of the market process to maintain security of provision in view of...

This paper investigates the repercussions of noncooperative national environmental policies on international capital investments in the absence of transfrontier pollution with an emphasis on the consequences of removing the barriers to international capital transactions. Such repercussions are...

In its first part, the paper focuses on the relationships between the quality of the water resource, industrial sewage, and waste water treatment in two successive steps: intra-industrial waste abatement followed by centralized end-of-pipe purification in (public) purification plants....

This paper focuses on how emission tax revenues change relative to GNP, when a fixed environmental standard is implemented by an emission tax and when waste abatement, technical and structural change and capital accumulation is accounted for. One- and two-sector growth models are analyzed...

This volume brings together 8 previously unpublished papers dealing with various modes of allocating jointly consumable goods (i.e. public goods). The issues covered range from voluntary contributions and price exclusion (market allocation) to positive and normative analyses of different...

Der Finanzwissenschaftliche Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik hat in seiner Arbeitstagung 2002 finanzpolitische Ansatzpunkte einer nachhaltigen Umweltpolitik diskutiert. Die drei Grundsatzreferate des Tagungsbandes arbeiten die Weiterentwicklung der Forschung in drei zentralen...

Ist das Klimaabkommen, das auf der Weltklimakonferenz in Paris im Dezember 2015 beschlossen wurde, ein wichtiger Schritt für den weltweiten Klimaschutz? Joachim Weimann, Universität Magdeburg, sieht zwar in der Tatsache, dass es überhaupt ein Abkommen gibt und dass sich Länder verpflichten,...