Environmental Communication Instruments for Environmental Policy Integration

Market-based Environmental Policy Instruments

Designing Instruments for Resource and Environmental Policy

Contents 1. Introduction 2. The need for policy instruments 3. The Range of Policy Options 4. The Selection and Design of Policy Instruments 4.1. Efficiency with heterogeneous abatement costs 4.2. Difficult monitoring of emissions (but complementarity with products) 4.3. Efficiency with heterogeneous damage costs 4.4. Uncertainty in damage costs and efficiency 4.5. Inter-temporal efficiency wit...

Trade and Environmental Policy Instruments and Reforms

This chapter first presents and summarises results from recent analytical literature, explaining the implications of different policy menus to abate pollution in a small, polluted, competitive economy opening to world trade. This situation is consistent with the stylised facts of many developing economies evolving in a global marketplace and with emerging environmental concerns. The context of ...

Institutional, Legal, and Economic Instruments in Ghana's Environmental Policy.

/ This paper reviews the state of the environment in Ghana and explores the potential for the use of institutional, legal, and economic instruments in environmental management in the specific context of this developing country.The environmental situation in Ghana is characterized by desertification, land degradation, deforestation, soil erosion, and inadequate water supply in the northern regio...

Management Type Environmental Policy Instruments – An Empirical Investigation

The overall aim of this study is to empirically investigate the cost structure of a management agreement type agri-environmental instrument and to identify factors for cost variation over space and time. We control for the actual level of compliance by using compliance weighted average scheme cost ratios. Beside technological and economic performance measures, we also incorporate risk proxies. ...