Ebook: Recent Policy Issues in Environmental and Resource Economics

Peter Michaelis and Frank Stahler This book deals with recent policy issues in environmental and resource economics. To collect articles on recent policy issues is of course always also a question of taste. This volume tries to represent a broad range of papers which covers the double dividend hypothesis, the role of non-profit organizations for environmental policies, trade implications and international environmental agreements. It consists of two parts, a part on domestic policy issues and a part on international policy issues. A separate part on international policy issues would not have been on the agenda when this volume would have been published two decades ago. But international and global environmental problems are different from purely national problems and deserve a special approach. However, also domestic policies face new challenges. One new focus of domestic policies is the discussion on the relationship between environmental benefits and other policy objectives. 'Some Remarks on the Double Dividend Hypothesis' by Christian Scholz deals with this discussion. In opposition to a number of recent papers it is found that the possibility for a double dividend depends largely on the substitutability characteristics of taxed commodities.

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The volume provides a thorough analytic treatment of recent environmental policy problems. All papers discuss these problems by a rigid economic analysis of these issues. The contributions of this volume discuss the double dividend hypothesis, the role of non-profit organisations for environmental policies, trade implications of environmental policies and international environmental agreements. These contributions add new findings to the current discussion, and some papers may imply a revision of conventional thought on some environmental policy problems. Readers will benefit from both the clear analytic treatment and from the new findings which may animate further discussion of certain environmental policy issues among researchers as well as policy makers.