MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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100 1 $aSterner, Thomas,$d1952-
245 10 $aPolicy instruments for environmental and natural resource management /$cThomas Sterner.
260 $aWashington, DC :$bResources for the Future :$bWorld Bank ;$aStockholm, Sweden :$bSwedish International Development Cooperation Agency,$cc2003.
300 $axxii, 504 p. :$bill., map ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 449-481) and index.
505 0 $aThe Needfor Environmental and Natural Resource Policy -- Classical Causes of Environmental Degradation -- Public Economics and Information -- Adapting Models to Ecosystems: Ecology, Time, and Space -- The Evolution of Rights -- Review of Policy Instruments -- Direct Regulation of the Environment -- Tradable Permits -- Taxes -- Subsidies, Deposit-Refund Schemes, and Refunded Emissions Payments -- Property Rights, Legal Instruments, and Informational Policies -- National Policy and Planning -- Selection of Policy Instruments -- Efficiency of Policy Instruments -- Role of Uncertainty and Information Asymmetry -- Equilibrium Effects and Market Conditions -- Distribution of Costs -- Politics and Psychology of Policy Instruments -- International Aspects.
505 0 $a-- Design of Policy Instruments -- Policy Instruments for Road Transportation -- Environmental Damage Caused by Transportation -- Environmental Road Pricing -- Taxation or Regulation for Fuel Efficiency -- Fuel Quality, Vehicle Standards, and Urban Planning -- Lessons Learned: Transportation -- Policy Instruments for Industrial Pollution -- Experience in Developed Countries -- Experience in Developing Countries -- Policy Instruments for the Management of Natural Resources and Ecosystems -- Water -- Waste -- Fisheries -- Agriculture -- Forestry -- Ecosystems -- Policy Issues and Potential Solutions.
650 0 $aEnvironmental policy.
650 0 $aConservation of natural resources$xGovernment policy.
994 $aC0$bXIM