Greening the Budget: Budgetary Policies for Environmental Improvement (International Studies in Environmental Policy Making series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840647531 ISBN 13: 9781840647532

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the environment and explores the scope for greening both revenue and expenditure through specific measures. The authors begin by considering the effects of removing environmentally damaging subsidies and the potential for correcting market failure by way of appropriate pricing. They go on to examine the introduction of new taxes following the ‘polluter pays’ principle and, in contrast, the allocation of incentives for those who take the environmentally preferred course of action. They also explore the environmental and budgetary implications of European Union financial transfers by looking at a case study of the agricultural sector. The book concludes by addressing public purchasing and administration.

This book will be of particular interest and value to scholars of environmental economics, researchers involved in environmental policy, and environmental consultants, practitioners and policymakers.

About this title

About the Author:

J. Peter Clinch, University College Dublin, Ireland, Kai Schlegelmilch, formerly Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, and currently Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany and Rolf-Ulrich Sprenger and Ursula Triebswetter, IFO Institute for Economic Research, Munich, Germany

Review:

`Greening the Budget offers a useful, and welcome, addition to the literature available to the environmental policymaker. The book can inspire policymakers to take a fresh look at old problems, help us to ask new questions and stimulate proposals for new solutions . . . Students of things environmental will find the book an inspiration for essay projects and research programs.' -- Thorolfur Matthiasson, Environmental and Resource Economics

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1840647531
• ISBN 13: 9781840647532
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Clinch J. Peter, Schlegelmilch Kai, Sprenger Rolf-Ulrich, Triebswetter Ursula