Green Taxation and Environmental Sustainability (Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation series, 12)

Green Taxation and Environmental Sustainability explores the critical issue of how taxes can be applied across relevant environmental areas - including transport, nuclear power, and water and waste management - to achieve sustainability. Containing topical chapters written by environmental experts, the book covers a number of key issues, including: interaction of biofuels and EU state aid rules; territorial differences for transport fuel demand; electric vehicles, taxation and electricity transmission; public policy issues on the disposal of high-level radioactive waste in Japan; landfill and waste incineration taxes; and many other topics. This insightful study will appeal to policy makers in government, as well as to students and academics in environmental law, environmental economics and environmental sustainability.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781009023
• ISBN13: 9781781009024
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"