TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sterner, Thomas
AU  - Sterner, Thomas
AU  - Coria, Jessica
TI  - Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management
SN  - 1617260983
U1  - 333.72 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - RFF
KW  - Environmental policy	
KW  - Environmental economics	
KW  - Conservation of natural resources--Government policy	
N1  - 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
ER  -