Using Marginal Damages in Environmental Policy: A Study of Air Pollution in the United States - Hardcover

Muller, Nicholas Z.; Mendelsohn, Robert O.

 
9780844772189: Using Marginal Damages in Environmental Policy: A Study of Air Pollution in the United States
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0844772186 ISBN 13: 9780844772189
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

This technical volume makes the case that air pollution policy in the United States can be improved through consideration of both the marginal abatement costs facing regulated sources, and the marginal damages associated with their emissions. The preferred approach is a fully efficient regulatory scheme. Recognizing that completely reforming today's regulatory program, which consists of a mix of command-and-control policies and cap-and-trade programs, is not likely to be easy in the short run, the authors propose a prioritization scheme for regulatory reform. This scheme ranks sources according to the net marginal damage of additional emissions. Policymakers should focus reforms on those sources and pollutants with the largest differences between marginal damages and marginal costs; this will yield the greatest return on incremental investments in abatement.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert O. Mendelsohn is Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of Forest Policy and a professor of economics at the School of Management at Yale University. Nicholas Muller is an assisant professor of economics and environmental studies at Middlebury College.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0844772186
ISBN 13 
9780844772189
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
150
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