Cover -- Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Background and Overview -- Definitions, Concepts, and Challenges for Policymaking -- Overview of the Book -- Part I the Need for Environmental and Natural Resource Policy -- Consequences of Economic Growth -- Institutional and Policy Failure -- Chapter 2. Classical Causes of Environmental Degradation -- Growth and the Environment -- Welfare and Policy Reform -- Market Failure -- Externalities -- Chapter 3. Public Economics and Information -- Public Goods, Club Goods, and Common Property -- Congestion -- Asymmetric Information and Uncertainty -- Chapter 4. Adapting Models to Ecosystems: Ecology, Time, and Space -- A Simple Bioeconomic Model of a Fishery -- Bioeconomics and the Management of Ecosystems -- Management in an Intertemporal Setting -- Spatial Heterogeneity and Land Use -- Chapter 5. the Evolution of Rights -- Real Property -- Common Property Resources -- Water Law -- Lessons for Environmental Externalities and Commons -- Part II Review of Policy Instruments -- Chapter 6. Direct Regulation of the Environment -- Optimality and Policy Instruments -- Direct Provision of Public Goods -- Regulation of Technology -- Regulation of Performance -- Chapter 7. Tradable Permits -- U.s. Emissions Trading Programs -- Other Emissions Trading Programs -- Trading Programs for Other Resources -- Chapter 8. Taxes -- Pigovian Taxes -- Taxes, Charges, and Earmarking -- Taxes on Inputs and Outputs -- Taxing Natural Resources -- Chapter 9. Subsidies, Deposit-refund Schemes, and Refunded Emissions Payments -- Subsidies and Subsidy Removal -- Deposit-refund, Tax-subsidy, and Other Two-part Tariff Systems -- Refunded Emissions Payments.

Chapter 10. Property Rights, Legal Instruments, and Informational Policies -- Creation of Property Rights -- Common Property Resource Management -- Liability and Other Legal Instruments -- Environmental Agreements -- Provision of Information -- Chapter 11. National Policy and Planning -- Part III Selection of Policy Instruments -- Chapter 12. Efficiency of Policy Instruments -- Heterogeneous Abatement Costs -- Heterogeneous Damage Costs -- Efficiency in an Intertemporal Sense -- Technological Progress, Growth, and Inflation -- Chapter 13. Role of Uncertainty and Information Asymmetry -- Uncertainty in Abatement and Damage Costs (price Vs. Quantity) -- Uncertainty Concerning Type of Polluter or User -- Uncertainty Concerning Polluter or User Behavior -- Chapter 14. Equilibrium Effects and Market Conditions -- Goal Fulfillment, Abatement, and Output Substitution -- General Equilibrium, Taxation, and the Double Dividend -- Adapting to Market Conditions -- Chapter 15. Distribution of Costs -- Distribution of Costs and Rights Between Polluters and Society -- Allocation of Rights -- Incidence of Costs Between Polluters -- Income Distributional Effects and Poverty -- Chapter 16. Politics and Psychology of Policy Instruments -- Politics of Policy Instrument Selection -- Enforcement, Monitoring, and the Psychology of Instrument Choice -- Policymaking in Severely Resource-constrained Economies -- Chapter 17. International Aspects -- International Environmental Issues -- Trade, International Relations, and Local Policymaking -- Competitiveness and the Porter Hypothesis -- Chapter 18. Design of Policy Instruments -- Environmental Policy Selection Matrix -- Interaction Between Policies -- Part IV Policy Instruments for Road Transportation -- Chapter 19. Environmental Damage Caused by Transportation -- Vehicles -- Location -- Combining Vehicle Age and Location.

Engine Temperature and Other Factors -- Chapter 20. Environmental Road Pricing -- Calculating Environmental Damage from Road Transportation -- Simpler Pricing Schemes -- Chapter 21. Taxation or Regulation for Fuel Efficiency -- Fuel Taxation -- Regulations Instead of Price Mechanisms -- Chapter 22. Fuel Quality, Vehicle Standards, and Urban Planning . . -- Fuel Quality and the Phaseout of Lead -- Policies for Fuel Quality in Sweden and Other Countries -- Vehicle Standards, Efficiency, and Distributional Concerns -- Urban Pollution in Developing-world Cities -- Chapter 23. Lessons Learned: Transportation -- Part V Policy Instruments for Industrial Pollution -- Chapter 24. Experience in Developed Countries -- Reducing Nox Emissions from Combustion -- Green Tax Reform in Sweden and Germany -- Prohibition Compared with Other Policies: Trichloroethylene -- Liability and Superfund -- Information Provision and Vas on U.s. Toxic Emissions -- Global Policymaking: Protecting the Ozone Layer -- Global Climate Change: Domestic Policies and New Technology -- Chapter 25. Experience in Developing Countries -- Environmental Funds and Other Instruments: Cee Countries -- Environmental Fees and Funds: China -- Environmental Charges: Rio Negro, Colombia -- Voluntary Participation in Emissions Control: Mexico -- Differentiated Electricity Tariffs: Mexico and Zambia -- Information Provision and Institutional Capacity: Indonesia -- Two-tier Pollution Regulation: India -- Lessons Learned -- Part VI Policy Instruments for the Management of Natural Resources and Ecosystems -- Chapter 26. Water -- Water Management and Tariffication -- Tariff Structures in Some Middle Eastern Economies -- Water Tariffs in Chile -- Water Management, Laws, and Pricing in Southern Africa -- Pricing Water When Metering Is Not Possible -- Cpr Management of Water -- Chapter 27. Waste.

Economic Incentives in Waste Management -- Waste Management in Developing Countries -- Tourism and Waste Management in the Caribbean -- Eco-labeling of Soaps and Detergents -- Tradable Packaging Waste Recovery Notes -- Chapter 28. Fisheries -- Management of Small-scale Subsistence Fisheries -- Itqs in Fishery Management -- Conclusions -- Chapter 29. Agriculture -- Managing Agricultural Runoff -- Property Rights, Population Growth, and Soil Erosion -- Risk in Sharecropper Agriculture -- Eco-taxes in Agroindustry -- Chapter 30. Forestry -- Subsidies -- Taxes -- Regulations -- Forest Concessions and Timber Contracts -- Certification -- Carbon Offsets and Other Forms of International Payment -- Clarification of Property Rights -- Chapter 31. Ecosystems -- Cpr Management of Wildlife in Zimbabwe -- Protection of Marine Ecosystems -- Shaping Ecosystem Policy -- Part VII Conclusion -- Chapter 32. Policy Issues and Potential Solutions -- Policymaking Criteria -- Efficiency -- Uncertainty, Risk, and Information Asymmetry -- Ecological and Technical Complexities -- The Provision of Environmental Public Goods -- Feasibility, Market Structure, and General Equilibrium Effects -- Cost Distribution and the Politics of Policymaking -- National and International Policymaking -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

As Thomas Sterner points out, the economic 'toolkit' for dealing with environmental problems has become formidable. It includes taxes, charges, permits, deposit-refund systems, labeling, and other information disclosure mechanisms. Though not all these devices are widely used, empirical application has started within some sectors, and we are beginning to see the first systematic efforts at an advanced policy design that takes due account of market-based incentives. Sterner�s book encourages more widespread and careful use of economic policy instruments. Intended primarily for application in developing and transitional countries, the book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of economic policy instruments in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in select rich and poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ambitious in scope, the book discusses the design of instruments that can be employed in a wide range of contexts, including transportation, industrial pollution, water pricing, waste, fisheries, forests, and agriculture. Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management is deeply rooted in economics but also informed by perspectives drawn from political, legal, ecological, and psychological research. Sterner notes that, in addition to meeting requirements for efficiency, the selection and design of policy instruments must satisfy criteria involving equity and political acceptability. He is careful to distinguish between the well-designed plans of policymakers and the resulting behavior of society. A copublication of Resources for the Future, the World Bank, and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

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