Power and responsibility in environmental policy making

The Role of Economics in Extended Producer Responsibility: Making Policy Choices and Setting Policy Goals

Extended producer responsibility (EPR) embodies the notion that producers should be made physically or financially responsible for the environmental impacts their products have at the end of product life. The EPR concept has taken hold in Europe and is garnering wide interest in the United States, where a variant known as “shared product responsibility” or “product stewardship” is usually the p...

Quantitative Analysis of Uncertainty and Variability in Environmental Policy Making

i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I spent the summer of 1992 working as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Science and Engineering Fellow. This fellowship program is administered by AAAS under EPA sponsorship. My assignment was in the Exposure Assessment Group (EAG) of the Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, whic...

Integrated assessment and environmental policy making In pursuit of usefulness

Current integrated assessment projects primarily seek end to end integration through formal models at a national to global scale, and show three significant representational weaknesses: determinants of decadai-scale emissions trends; valuing impacts and adaptive response; and the formation and effects of policies. Meeting the needs of policy audiences may require other forms of integration; may...

Ingredients for Good Health Policy-Making: Incorporating Power and Politics into the Mix

The Economic and Environmental Position of Geothermal Technologies in Iran’s Power Supply Portfolio from Policy and Investment Perspectives

In this study, the idea of utilizing hydrothermal technologies in the power supply portfolio is explored considering the necessity of power security, environmental protection, supplying the ever-growing power demand, and the opportunity to export hydrocarbon resources. The main goal is to determine a minimum guaranteed purchase price from a policy perspective and a confidence interval for sensi...