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Sterner, Thomas

Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management - 2nd ed. - New York: RFF, 2012. - 638p.

1. Background and overview

Part 1: The need for environmental and natural resource policy

2. Causes of environmental degradation

3. The evolution of rights

Part 2: Review of policy instruments

4. Direct regulation of the environment

5. Taxes

6. Tradable permits

7. Subsidies, deposit-refund schemes, and refunded emissions payments

8. property Rights, legal instruments, and informational policies

Part 3: Selection of policy instruments

9. Efficiency of policy instruments

10. Role of uncertainty and asymmetric information

11. Equilibrium effects and market conditions

12. Distribution of costs

13. Politics and enforcement of policy instruments

14. International aspects and climate change

15. Design of policy instruments

Part 4: Policy instruments for road transportation

16. Environmental damages caused by transportation and road pricing vehicles

17. Taxation or regulation for fuel efficiency

18. Fuel quality policies

19. Vehicle standards, urban planning and lessons learned

Part 5: Policy instruments for industrial pollution

20. Global climate change: international, domestic policies and carbon markets

21. Experience in developing countries

Part 6: Policy instruments for the management of natural resources and ecosystems

22. Adapting models to ecosystems: ecology, time and space

23. Water

24. Waste

25. Fisheries

26. Agriculture

27. Forestry

28. Ecosystems

Part 7: Conclusion.

ISBN: 1617260983

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Environmental policy
Environmental economics
Conservation of natural resources--Government policy

Dewey Class. No.: 333.72 / STE/P