Governance by Green Taxes

Making Pollution Prevention Pay

• Author(s): Mikael Skou Andersen,
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Pages: 247
• ISBN_10: 0719042321
  ISBN_13: 9780719042324
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Environmental Economics , Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection , Political Science / General , Science / Environmental Science ,

Description:... Fiscal measures are being used increasingly by governments to secure environmental policy objectives. This book examines how green taxes have worked in practice. The author uses his 20 years of environmental policy experience to test the effectiveness of economic instruments. Through a comparative study of the water policies of Denmark, France, Germany and the Netherlands, he shows how, in contrast to administrative regulation, green taxes have made pollution prevention pay and promoted the ecological modernization of industry.