| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 246 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge explorations in environmental economics ; 43 |
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Routledge explorations in environmental economics ; 43.
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| Contents |
Preface / by Maurizio Franzini -- Introduction / by Chiara Martini and Silvia Tiezzi -- Income and environmental quality : theory and empirics -- Willingness to pay for environmental quality : testable empirical implications of the growth and environment literature / by Debra Israel and Arik Levinson -- The income elasticity of the impact of climate change / by David Anthoff and Richard Tol -- The distributional incidence of benefits of environmental improvements -- Environmental goods and the distribution of income : environment and resource economics, 2003 / by Udo Ebert -- How much do we care about air quality improvements? : evidence from italian households / by Chiara Martini and Silvia Tiezzi -- The distributional incidence of the costs of environmental policies : the case of carbon/energy taxes -- Household level studies on the distributional impact of carbon/energy taxes / by Chiara Martini -- Firm level studies on the distributional impact of carbon/energy taxes / by Rosella Bardazzi and Maria Grazia Pazienza -- 8.distributional effects of carbon pricing in ireland : a CGE approach / by Stefano Verde -- The role of fairness and distributional weights in environmental public goods provision -- Distributional weights in cost-benefit analysis : should we forget about them?, Land economics, 2005 / by Olof Johansson-Stenman -- Fair air : distributive justice and environmental economics, environmental and resource economics, 2010 / by Olof Johansson-Stenman and James Konow |
| Summary |
The purpose of this collection of essays is to shed some light on the complex relationship between environmental quality and the distribution of income. Are the preferences of the poor towards a cleaner environment really different from those of the rich? Environmental economists have traditionally focused on efficiency issues. In their analyses the quality of the environment is usually related to aggregate or average variables, like per capita income; policy recommendations are usually formulated considering efficiency with no regard for equity and also the predicted effects |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Environmental policy.
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
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Income distribution.
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environmental policy.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects
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Environmental policy
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Income distribution
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tiezzi, Silvia, editor.
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Martini, Chiara, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317820345 |
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1317820347 |
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1306971578 |
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9781306971577 |
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9781315819594 |
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1315819597 |
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