Incentives for Environmental Protection

By: Thomas Schelling

This book explores the extent to which pricing incentives such as charges on emissions; in contrast to regulatory standards, can be shaped into a practical policy that is technically effective, politically enactable, administratively enforceable, and equitable. It also compares he advantages and disadvantages of this approach to those that characterize the policy of compliance to regulatory standards. And it identifies the criteria on which either...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262192136
• ISBN13: 9780262192132
• Release Date: February 1983
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 384 Pages