Environmental Policy Objectives, Instruments, and Implementation [Paperback]

This volume addresses the practical issues that arise in applying economic instruments to environmental policy. It surveys the main concepts and tools--such as sustainability, biodiversity, and cost-benefit analysis--and analyzes the broad environmental policy agenda, including the global agreement on climate change and the narrow British context.

1. Introduction,Dieter Helm, Oxford
Part One: Principles
2. Objectives, Instruments, and Institutions,Dieter Helm
3. CostBenefit Analysis,David Pearce
4. Environmental and Public Finance Aspects of the Taxation of Energy,Stephen Smith
5. Sustainable Development and Policy,Giles Atkinson
6. Making Things Stick: Enforcement and Compliance,Anthony Heyes
Part Two: Policy
7. Political Economy of the Kyoto Protocol,Scott Barrett
8. Bartering Biodiversity: What are the Options?,David Macdonald
Part Three: Sectors
9. Water Pollution and Abstraction and Economic Instruments,Simon Cowan
10. Agri-environmental Policy: A UK Perspective,Ian Hodge
11. Transport and the Environment,Chris Nash
12. Landfill Levy,Jane Powell and Inger Brisson

Dieter Helm is a member of the DTIs Energy Advisory Panel and chairman of the DETRs Academic Panel. He is an Associate Editor of theOxford Review of Economic Policyand editor ofThe Utilities Journal. He has advised government and industry in the UK, USA, New Zealand, Japan, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Argentina, Germany, and France.