Economic Instruments for a Low-carbon Future (Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation series)
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- Synopsis
- Critically assessing recent developments in environmental and tax legislation, and in particular low-carbon strategies, this timely book analyses the implementation of market-based instruments for achieving climate stabilisation objectives around the world. Through case studies and broader analysis, international experts examine taxes and subsidies in energy intensive sectors including stationary energy and transport in Europe and South America, and low-carbon strategies in Australia and East Asia. They also address cross-cutting policy issues involving water pollution and biodiversity protection. This work illustrates how economic instruments for a low-carbon transition need to align with other governmental policies and together influence behaviour in multiple domains such as energy, mobility, trade, land use and innovation. Providing a rich economic modelling of environmental fiscal policies, this topical book will be an engaging read for environmental tax scholars and professionals, as well as academics across energy and environmental economics, law and policy. Policy makers and practitioners in energy and climate policy will also benefit from its problem-solving approach.
- Copyright:
- 2020
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781839109911
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781839109904
- Publisher:
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 09/23/20
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- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Business and Finance, Earth Sciences, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
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- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Janet E. Milne
- Edited by:
- Hope Ashiabor
- Edited by:
- Mikael Skou Andersen
- Edited by:
- Theodoros Zachariadis
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