Sökning: "Environmental externalities"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 31 avhandlingar innehållade orden Environmental externalities.
1. Investigating the Relation between Efficient, Effective and Sustainable Remediation of Contaminated Sites
Sammanfattning : Remediation of contaminated sites reduces negative impacts to humans and the environment, but the process itself is typically associated with high costs to society and large environmental footprints. The sustainable remediation concept has, over the past decade, brought increased attention to the often-overlooked contradictory effects of site remediation. LÄS MER
2. Stimulating the diffusion of environmental technologies through export
Sammanfattning : Contemporary environmental problems represent complex societal challenges, and as these problems become increasingly global, the international diffusion of environmental technologies is essential. One way to diffuse technologies internationally is through export. LÄS MER
3. Green Public Procurement : Legal Instruments for Promoting Environmental Interests in the United States and European Union
Sammanfattning : While public environmental law, regulation and governance have paved the traditional road towards environmental and natural resource protection, the pathway has been expanded to include a broader orbit of interest areas and regulatory tools in an effort to achieve sustainability. Through the lens of comparative law and policy, this thesis evaluates one such expansion of environmental law—attempts to further environmental interests through public procurement in the European Union (EU) and United States (U. LÄS MER
4. Welfare measurement, externalities and Pigouvian taxation in dynamic economies
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of five papers.Paper [1] analyzes one possible way of replacing dynamic Pigouvian taxes by a static approximation of such taxes from the point of view of social accounting. The idea is to approximate a Pigouvian emission tax by using the instantaneous marginal willingness to pay to reduce the stock of pollution. LÄS MER
5. Environmental policy and transboundary externalities : coordination and commitment in open economies
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of an introductory chapter and four papers, which relate to environmental policy in the presence of transboundary environmental damage. Paper [I] concerns public policy in a multi-jurisdiction framework with transboundary environmental damage. LÄS MER
