Second-best tax policy and natural resource management in growing economies

Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management

It is widely agreed the Anthropocene has seen an unprecedented decline in the natural resources conditions that have underpinned the economic growth of the last few hundred years. As communities, we have not responded to Boulding’s vision of ‘the coming space ship earth’ although not for want of much official and private effort. As ‘wicked problems’ the impacts have been often ignored or off lo...

Sustainability Indicators for Natural Resource Management & Policy

Public Economics Designing Tax Policy in Federalist Economies: an Overview

The emerging economic federations of the European Union, Russia, and South Africa, along with the established federations in Australia, Canada, and the United States, confront the task of designing the institutions for federal fiscal policy. This paper reviews the literature on the design of tax policy in federalist economies. We conclude that taxation by lower level governments can lead to sig...

Tax Reform and Environmental Policy: Second Best Analysis Using a French Applied Dynamic General Equilibrium Model

This study draws upon the construction and use of a dynamic applied general equilibrium model, with perfect foresight, designed for clarifying the questions concerning taxation and the environment. The first section gives an overview of the model, focusing on an explicit introduction to the environmental dimension in the behaviour of the agents (the so-called nonseparability assumption). Consum...

Linking scientific knowledge with policy action in Natural Resource Management

If science is to help in enhancing the stability of forest margins, reducing poverty and securing long-term conservation of forest resources, it has to communicate effectively with the two other knowledge action pairs (Fig 1), as well as with the many shades of opinion within their group. A persisting challenge is the quest for better integration of the knowledge action pairs of three main actors.