RegionPermit Trading in Different Applications
Edited by Bernd Hansjürgens, Ralf Antes, Marianne Strunz
- Price: $130.00
- Binding/Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 978-0-415-55122-9
- Publish Date: June 15th 2011
- Imprint: Routledge
- Pages: 256 pages
Description
This book analyzes the current picture for permit trading: one of the most influential environmental instruments to emerge in recent times. Its possibilities and limits, its successful design options and its restrictions will all be placed under the microscope, with a focus not only on “traditional” fields of application including air quality and climate policy, but new and emerging fields in which permit trading has been brought to bear: biodiversity, land use policy, water policy amongst them. The authors have set out with the following intentions:
- to demonstrate how lessons learned in established policy fields can be transferred to new fields of application
- to fill specific research gaps in instrument choice and instrument design with respect to permit trading in emerging fields of application
- to contribute to instrument choice in environmental policy by delivering a comparative analysis of market-based instrument permit trading.
The primary focus will be on practical and empirical analyses of existing and emerging permit trading schemes and the majority of the contributions are of an empirical nature. However, the book will be supplemented by analytical-theoretical considerations including mechanism design and implementation issues. An overview chapter summarize the central messages of the chapters in a comparative way and helps fill a substantial gap in the existing literature on permit trading.
Contents
1. Emissions Trading in Air Quality Management and Climate Policy 2. Permit Trading in Land Use Management 3. Water Trading and Water Quality Trading 4. Overarching Design Options 5. Synthesis and Conclusions