Environmental Management through Industrial Waste Taxes: Theoretical Foundations and Policy Designs

PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY RESEARCH SERIES WORKING PAPERS 2004 An Investigation into Waste Taxes and Charges

This paper reviews the potential for problems regarding public acceptability of environmental taxes with: a review of waste charges literature; a review of the literature on environmental attitudes; and a case study the municipal waste charge protests in Ireland in 2003 and 2004. These public protests against new waste charges demonstrate the necessity for good advertisement and public relation...

Unpicking Environmental Policy Integration with tales from waste management

Environmental Policy and Time Consistency: Emission Taxes and Emissions Trading

The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. A key consideration in the choice of pollution control instruments is the incentive for regulated firms to adopt cleaner technologies. The adoption of less polluting prod...

Environmental Investment and Policy with Distortionary Taxes and Endogenous Growth

Recent studies consider public R&D spending that affects abatement knowledge and endogenous growth, distortionary taxes that affect physical and human capital formation, pollution taxes that affect environmental degradation, and regeneration that restores natural capital. Our model combines all of those elements. We show how the combination affects results from each prior model, focusing on two...

Sharing a polluted river through environmental taxes

n agents located along a river generate residues that then require cleaning to return the river to its natural state, which entails some cost.We propose several rules to distribute the total pollutant-cleaning cost among all the agents. We provide axiomatic characterizations using properties based on water taxes. Moreover, we prove that one of the rules coincides with the weighted Shapley value...