Environmental Markets: Equity and EfficiencyGraciela Chichilnisky, Geoffrey Heal Columbia University Press, 2000 M08 25 - 280 pages Markets are increasingly central to the resolution of environmental problems. They played a critical role in implementing the 1990 Clean Air Act of the United States, which has been instrumental in reducing acid rain in a cost-effective manner. They are also central to the global strategy adopted for limiting the emissions of greenhouse gases under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and are being used for resolving conflicts over the use of other environmental resources, particularly water. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Markets for Tradable Carbon Dioxide Emission Quotas Principles and Practice | 13 |
Equity and Efficiency in Environmental Markets Global Trade in Carbon Dioxide Emissions | 46 |
Emissions Constraints Emission Permits and Marginal Abatement Costs | 68 |
Equilibrium and Efficiency International Emission Permits Markets | 82 |
Efficiency Properties of a ConstantRatio Mechanism for the Distribution of Tradable Emission Permits | 110 |
Who Should Abate Carbon Emissions? An International Viewpoint | 126 |
Differentiated or Uniform International Carbon Taxes Theoretical Evidences and Procedural Constraints | 135 |
Securitizing the Biosphere | 169 |
Equity and Efficiency in Emission Markets The Case for an International Bank for Environmental Settlements | 180 |
The Clean Development Mechanism Unwrapping the Kyoto Surprise | 218 |
Knowledge and the Environment Markets with Privately Produced Public Goods | 242 |
A Commentary on the Kyoto Protocol | 247 |
The Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change | 255 |
Contributors | 281 |
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Environmental Markets: A Property Rights Approach Terry L. Anderson,Gary D. Libecap Limited preview - 2014 |
Environmental Markets: Equity and Efficiency Graciela Chichilnisky,G. M. Heal No preview available - 2000 |