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Developments in Environmental Economics : Volume 7 - Edwin Woerdman

Developments in Environmental Economics

Volume 7

By: Edwin Woerdman

Hardcover | 10 August 2004

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1. Introduction. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Climate c hange, the Kyoto protocol and beyond. 1.3 Market-based climate policy, p ublic goods and property rights. 1.4 The Kyoto mechanisms, institutional features and competitive advantages. 1.5 The emerging international gre enhouse gas market. 1.6 Objective and approach of the book. 1.7 Overview of the book.

Part I. Institutional Economics.
2. Design and implementation of market -based climate policy. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Tradeable emission rights a nd the private sector. 2.2.1 Domestic permit trading design. 2.2.2 Downs tream permit trading with upstream monitoring. 2.3 Project-based emissio ns trading and the private sector. 2.4 Economic versus political hierarc hy in market-based climate policy? 2.4.1 The theoretical superiority of permit trading in economics. 2.4.2 The problematic acceptability of perm it trading in politics. 2.5 Some drawbacks of the existing literature. 2 .6 Conclusion.
3. Path dependence and lock-in of market-ba sed climate policy. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Definitions of institutional p
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"...Woerdman presents a careful and wide-ranging analysis of the institutional challenges involoved in implementing the flexibility mechanisms associated with the Kyoto Protocol and the emerging international climate change regime...On the whole, this book provides insight into the general structure of institutional economics and it's applications to environmental policy analysis." -Richard B. Howarth, Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College, in ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, 2005 P. Lehmann this is an accomplished book that will be of interest to researchers in the field of climate policy and those with a more general interest in applying institutional economics to analyse environmental policies. European Environment, 2005

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