[PDF] Economic Growth And Environmental Regulation eBook

Author : Tim Swanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135247463

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This volume assembles a group of eminent scholars to look at the problem of growth and environment from the perspective of environmental regulation. The questions addressed are: How does economic growth interact with regulation, and what are the best approaches to regulation in use today? The context for the volume is the current situation in China, where twenty years of rapid growth have created a situation in which there are both demands for environmental regulation and needs for choosing a future development path. The advent of "A Macro-Environmental Strategy" for China presents an opportunity to ask how and why China should introduce regulation into its management of its development. The volume includes contributions from leading Chinese experts and established environmental economists from other countries including Timo Goeschl, Ben Groom and Andreas Kontoleon. The volume looks at both the demand side of environmental regulation and the supply side. The demand side of regulatory intervention examines how regulation operates to supplement existing resource-allocation mechanisms, via effective demand aggregation and implementation mechanisms. The supply side of regulation examines how regulation operates to guide industrial growth down particular pathways, in the pursuit of managed development. Both sides of environmental regulation involve the important issue of implementation and enforcement. This volume will be of most value to academics and scholars of environmental economics, growth economics, the Chinese economy and policy-makers of environmental regulations.

Author : Sander M. de Bruyn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9401140685

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Is economic growth good for the environment? A number of economists have claimed that economic growth can benefit the environment, recruiting political support and finance for environmental policy measures. This view has received increasing support since the early 1990s from empirical evidence that has challenged the traditional environmentalist's belief that economic growth degrades the environment. This book reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on growth and the environment, giving an in-depth empirical treatment of the relationship between the two. Various hypotheses are formulated and tested for a number of indicators of environmental pressure. The test results indicate that alternative models and estimation methods should be used, altering previous conclusions about the effect of economic growth on the environment and offering an insight into the forces driving emission reduction in developed countries.

Author : Wayne B Gray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,84 MB
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351741837

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This title was first published in 2002. How expensive is environmental regulation and how does it affect the economy? A proper understanding of the costs imposed by environmental regulation is important for policy-makers and others concerned with regulatory design. This book focuses on empirical studies of the impact of environmental regulation on the economy, exposing the reader to a variety of estimation methodologies and datasets that have been used in this area. Three basic sources provide information on the costs of environmental regulation: surveys; engineering studies; and econometric analysis. This text draws on all three in its investigation.

Author : Paul Ekins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 113468939X

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A key area of public policy in the last twenty years is the question of how, and how much, to protect vthe environment. At the heart of this has been the heated debate over the nature of the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability. Is environemental sustainability economic growth or `green growth', a contradiction in terms? Avoiding the confusion that often surrounds these issues, Ekins provides rigorous expositions of the concept of sustainability, integrated environmental and economic accounting, the Environmental Kuznets Curve, the economics of climate change and environmental taxation. Individual chapters are organised as self-contained, state-of-the-art expositions of the core issues of environmental economics, with extensive cross-referencing from one chapter to another, in order to guide the student or policy-maker through these complex problems. Paul Ekins breaks new ground in defining the conditions of compatibility between economic growth and environmental sustainability, and provides measures and criteria by which the environmental sustainability of economic growth, as it occurs in the real world, may be judged. It is argued that `green growth' is not only theoretically possible but economically achievable and the authors show what environmental and economic policies are required to achieve this. Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability will be welcolmed by students of and researchers in environmental economics and environmental studies, as well as all interested policy-makers.

Author : Ramón López
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191538221

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Economic growth as we know it today cannot persist indefinitely if it entails continuous degradation of natural resources and the environment. While in a few countries around the world it appears that environmental degradation has been the result of rapid economic growth, in the vast majority of the developing countries the environment has been equally spoiled despite slow or even negative economic growth. This book provides new insights on the common roots of economic stagnation, poverty and environmental degradation which, unfortunately, generally reside in misguided government policies and priorities. By doing this, the volume seeks to provide a broader policy option framework than those found in conventional policy analyses, mainly dominated by the "Washington Consensus". It shows that a major omission of the conventional view is that governments tend to allocate government expenditures in a biased way favouring subsidies to the economic elites to the detriment of investments in public goods, including human capital, R&D, as well as the development of institutions (environmental and otherwise), which are vital for long run growth, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability.

Author : Alan E. Boyle
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9781383014853

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This volume addresses some of the most fundamental problems facing industrialists and environmentalists throughout the world. The essays review and analyze attempts being made in various countries to blend environmental protection with continued economic development.

Author : Frank Hettich
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781959992

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This book should interest all students and scholars of environmental economics and particularly those interested in the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality.

Author : John F. McEldowney
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 9780857938206

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Featuring an original introduction by the editors, this important collection of essays explores the main issues surrounding the regulation of the environment. The expert contributors illustrate that regulating the environment in the UK is conceptually complex, involves a diverse range of institutions, techniques and methodologies and crosses geographical and national boundaries. In the USA it is more formalised, juridical, adversarial and formally dependent upon legal rules. The articles highlight the fact that despite differences in the UK and the USA's regulatory styles, environmental regulation today has much in common with both traditions.

Author : Richard L. Revesz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521642701

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This book explores topics in contemporary debates over environmental quality, economic growth and sustainable development.