The Theory of Environmental Agreements and Taxes: CO2 Policy Performance in Comparative Perspective

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Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005 M01 1 - 294 páginas
'Martin Enevoldsen's book is a pioneering work that compares the impacts of various non-regulatory environmental strategies in achieving measurable pollution reductions. Much has been written on the theoretical virtues and drawbacks of green taxat

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1 Introduction
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12 Green Taxes and voluntary enviromental agreements
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13 Types of enviromental regulation
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What makes indirect regulation effective?
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15 The CO₂ case study
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16 Outline of the book
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2 Approaches to environmental governance in economics and political science
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21 The limits of the rational approach to environmental governance
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73 Method and research design
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74 Conclusion
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8 Indirect regulation of industrial CO₂ pollution in Austria Denmark and the Netherlands
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81 Energy structure
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The CO₂ tax strategy
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Voluntary energy agreements
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Nonintervention and information assistance
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85 Conclusion
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22 The limits of the institutional approach to enviromental regulation
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23 Conclusion
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3 A dual institutional approach
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31 Rational institutionalism
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32 Classifying institutional factors
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33 The microlevel effects of institutions
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34 A theoretical framework for analysing policy outcomes
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35 Unfolding the theoretical framework
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4 Voluntary agreements and the freerider problem
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42 Indirect environmental regulation and the supply of pollution abatement
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43 Freeriding in agreements with complete information
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44 Freeriding in agreements with incomplete information
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45 Concluding remarks
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5 Institutions social capital and voluntary environmental agreements
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Mandatory rules
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Conventional rules
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54 Conclusion
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6 On the institutional design and effectiveness of green taxes
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61 Green taxes and the role of institutions
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62 The institutional design of green taxes
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63 Implementation procedures
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64 Are emission taxes dynamically efficient?
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65 Conclusion on emission taxes
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66 Conclusion on the effectiveness of taxes and voluntary agreements
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7 Comparative analysis of CO₂ policies towards the industrial sector
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72 Explaining industrial CO₂ emission reductions
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9 A comparative analysis of CO₂ policy performance at the national level
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92 Absolute industrial CO₂ emissions 19802000
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93 Relative industrial CO₂ emissions 19802000
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94 Energy efficiency improvements and energy conversion
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95 Conclusion
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10 Econometric analysis of industrial CO₂ emissions over the period 19582000
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101 Theory on energy demand
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102 The cointegration approach to time series analysis
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103 Estimating CO₂ time series data from a twostep model
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104 Conclusion
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policy stimulation of cleaner energy technologies
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111 Energy decisons and rationality
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112 CO₂ policy incentives and energy decisions
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113 Conclusion
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12 Reflections on theory and policies
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The limits of corporatism and other national background institutions
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123 Corporatism social capital and consociational democracy
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124 Policy incentives matter
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The effect of mandatory and conventional rules
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Agreements or taxes?
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127 Suggestions for further research
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Appendix 1 Statistical data sources
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Appendix 2 List of interviewed organizations
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References
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Index
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Martin Enevoldsen, formerly Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Aarhus, Denmark

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