Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation: Lessons from Twenty Years of Experience

by Jody Freeman and Charles D. Kolstad

Over the last decade, market-based incentives have become the regulatory tool of choice when trying to solve difficult environmental problems. Evidence of their dominance can be seen in recent proposals for addressing global warming (through an emissions trading scheme in the Kyoto Protocol) and for amending the Clean Air Act (to add a new emissions trading systems for smog precursors and mercury--the Bush administration's "Clear Skies" program)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195189655
• ISBN13: 9780195189650
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"