Environmental quality and transport policy in Europe

Serie Research Memoranda Environmental Quality and Transport Policy in

This paper deals with the social costs of transport in Europe and with the problems associated with an improvement of environmental quality. It is in view of the high social costs of the transport sector and its close link with our welfare society necessary to identify and critically review strategie development scenarios for this sector. The paper gives an overview of related problems and issu...

Environmental Valuation in Europe Number 10 Participatory Approaches to Environmental Policy

Front cover: Public protests demanding international governments to agree on lowering greenhouse gas emissions. This pdf copy is for educational use only. Any other interested users should contact the editors for obtaining the policy research brief(s).

energy and environmental issues in transport sector

nowadays, transportation sector consumes about 27 percent of the whole energy in iran. therefore, after domestic and business sectors which consume about 40 percent of the whole energy, transportation is placed in the second rank. however, the financial value of transportation is of the highest importance. moreover, having 55percent of gasoline product consumption transportation has been also r...

Are clean technology and environmental quality conflicting policy goals?

In this paper we analyze the effects of an environmental policy on the diffusion of a clean technology in an economy where firms compete on the output market. We show that the share of adopting firms is non-monotonic with the stringency of the environmental policy, and that the adoption of the clean technology may well increase the pollution level. We also compare the effects of an emission tax...

The Contribution of Strategic Environmental Assessment to Transport Policy Governance