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Book The Net Impact of Environmental Protection on Jobs and the Economy

Download or read book The Net Impact of Environmental Protection on Jobs and the Economy written by Management Information Services (Washington, D.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jobs and the Environment

Download or read book Jobs and the Environment written by Robert H. Haveman and published by Scarsdale, N.Y. : Work in America Institute. This book was released on 1979 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environmental Protection and Economic Well being

Download or read book Environmental Protection and Economic Well being written by Thomas M. Power and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1996 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suggests how theories and techniques widely used in business and industry can be applied to schools as a group complementing each other. For administrators, reformers, teachers, parents, and anyone else interested in education. Explains the theory behind each of the five technologies, then describes tools for its implementation. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Jobs and the Environment

Download or read book Jobs and the Environment written by Eban S. Goodstein and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the employment effects of environmental regulation.

Book The Environment  Employment  and Sustainable Development

Download or read book The Environment Employment and Sustainable Development written by Monica Hale and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 1998 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the impact of environmental policies on businesses and employment across Europe. It contains a wealth of contributions from academics and practitioners throughout Europe.

Book Environmental Protection

Download or read book Environmental Protection written by Reg Green and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Employment Effects of Environmental Policies     Evidence From Firm Level Data

Download or read book Employment Effects of Environmental Policies Evidence From Firm Level Data written by Mr. Adil Mohommad and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The employment impact of environmental policies is an important question for policy makers. We examine the effect of increasing the stringency of environmental policy across a broad set of policies on firms’ labor demand, in a novel identification approach using Worldscope data from 31 countries on firm-level CO2 emissions. Drawing on evidence from as many as 5300 firms over 15 years and the OECD environmental policy stringency (EPS) index, it finds that high emission-intensity firms reduce labor demand upon impact as EPS is tightened, whereas low emission-intensity firms increase labor demand, indicating a reallocation of employment. Moreover, tightening EPS during economic contractions appears to have a positive effect on employment, other things equal. Quantifications exercises show modest positive net changes in employment for market-based policies, and modest negative net changes for non-market policies (mainly emission quantity regulations) and for the combined aggregate EPS. Within market-based policies, the percent decline in employment in high-emission firms (correspondingly the increase in low-emission firms) for a unit change in a policy index is smallest (largest) for trading schemes (“green” certificates, and “white” certificates)—although stringency is not comparable across indices. Finally, the employment effects of EPS are not persistent.

Book Employment and Environmental Protection

Download or read book Employment and Environmental Protection written by Anil Markandya and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the tradeoff between unemployment and environmental protection in economies in transition of Eastern Europe in general and in the Russian Federation in particular.

Book Politics and the Environment

Download or read book Politics and the Environment written by Michael Howes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An evenhanded, realistic and thoughtful approach to identifying environmental problems and management goals' Stephen Zavestoski, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of San Francisco '...a theoretically advanced yet accessible treatment of environmental governance, drawing on an impressive range of material to investigate the roles of states and industries in addressing environmental problems.' Harriet Bulkeley, Department of Geography, University of Durham 'Written in the vein of critical optimism, this book is pitched at the right level to inspire people trying to make pragmatic changes to their governmental and industrial systems: trying to make a difference where it counts.' Timothy Doyle, Associate Professor in Geographical and Environmental Studies, University of Adelaide What is the future for our environment? We face serious risks of major industrial accidents and global environmental degradation, yet new technological developments promise a standard of living unimaginable only a few generations ago. Michael Howes outlines the ways in which governments have responded to environmental risk over the past four decades. He examines the key environmental issues and the claims of envirosceptics, offering a new strategy for making major administrative decisions in the face of uncertainty. He explains how governments have developed environmental policy, and the ongoing tensions between science, industry, the state, social movements, and electoral politics. In a clear, straightforward manner, he shows how to use the work of theorists Ulrich Beck, Michel Foucault and John Dryzek to analyse environmental policy. He also develops a new method of measuring the effectiveness of environmental governance in developed countries. Howes draws on a wide array of sources from business, government, environment groups, academic research, and NGOs to illustrate his arguments, with comparisons between the environmental policies of the UK, the USA and Australia.

Book Environmental Protection

Download or read book Environmental Protection written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental regulation in the United States stands accused of causing a broad array of undesirable economic consequences. It is said that environmental regulation is too expensive, reduces economic growth, hurts international competitiveness, and causes widespread layoffs and plant closures. Sometimes, it is said, it even forces businesses to flee to more accommodating countries. The view that environmental regulation seriously harms the U.S. economy is so firmly established that it has become the centerpiece in the series of attempts over the last few years to roll back the very rules that have produced such dramatic improvements in environmental quality. This article reviews the evidence that can be brought to bear to verify or refute these accusations. In all cases, these assertions do not stand up to a careful examination of the facts. First, we do indeed spend a considerable amount on environmental protection, but not as much as we do on health care and national defense - activities that may be of similar significance to many people. Second, we spend about the same amount in terms of GDP as do other nations at similar levels of development. Third, we gain enormous benefits from pollution control, so the issue is not really the cost of environmental protection, but the net benefits we receive. Finally, there is no evidence that U.S. environmental regulation causes large-scale plant closures and job losses, that it impairs our international competitiveness, or that it encourages companies to flee to nations with more lax environmental protection requirements.

Book The Costs of Environmental Protection

Download or read book The Costs of Environmental Protection written by Richard Schmalensee and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, some have argued that tougher environmental policies can create jobs, stimulate innovation, and enhance competitiveness. On this view, economic side effects make environmental protection a sort of green free lunch. This essay provides an overview of the level and industrial incidence of environmental protection costs in the U.S. and shows why attempts to transmute these substantial costs into benefits are invalid. Environmental policies shift patterns of employment and R & D, but there is no reason at all to think that they create jobs or enhance economy-wide innovation on balance except, perhaps, in the very short run.

Book Is the Environment a Luxury

Download or read book Is the Environment a Luxury written by Silvia Tiezzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of policies are evaluated in aggregate terms. The essays collected in this volume go into the problem of the relationship between environmental quality and income distribution. The book’s opening essay shows how different theories of economic growth and environmental quality seem to suggest that the higher the level of income the higher is the value of environmental protection. The essays that follow, a mix of already published papers and of papers solicited for this book, analyse the relationship between environmental quality and income distribution from different perspectives (both micro and macro) and on the basis of more than one methodology. This book highlights that the preferences of the poor towards a cleaner environment may differ from those of the rich, but income is also very likely to represent only one factor affecting them. The essays consider other relevant factors affecting preferences for environmental quality. What clearly emerges is that the distribution of costs and benefits of environmental policies is the key for their successful implementation, and that further research is needed to both address the distributional effects themselves and the strategies to mitigate them.

Book The Economics of Environmental Protection

Download or read book The Economics of Environmental Protection written by Donald N. Thompson and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Winthrop Publishers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Political Economy of Environmental Protection

Download or read book The Political Economy of Environmental Protection written by Horst Siebert and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Material Concerns

Download or read book Material Concerns written by Tim Jackson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to preventative management and environmental policy in the industrial economy, Material Concerns offers realistic prospects for improving the quality of life.

Book Environmental Protection  Public or Private Choice

Download or read book Environmental Protection Public or Private Choice written by D.J. Kraan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the result of a collective effort made by its authors to reason and write about environmental policy from an empirical, rather than from a prescriptive perspective. Since the authors, like most people, care about the environment and, as professional economists or political scientists, have some expertise to offer in the area of policy-design, it was not always easy for them to keep on the intended track. Whereas they knew that it is unusual to follow a strictly empirical approach in such a 'practical' field as environmental policy, they discovered only during the effort what kind of difficulties would be encountered. Moreover, they learned that it is sometimes necessary to reason normatively in order to catch essential features of empirical reality. As it turns out, moral notions cannot entirely be neglected in political life. The predominance of homo economicus is not absolute. We feel that the effort has been worthwile and deserves to be repeated and expanded. It has been a truly co-operative project and we are very grateful to all authors for their willingness to contribute. Special gratitude we owe to Frans van Nispen and Annemarie Rima. Frans van Nispen has assisted us in every conceivable way during the preparation of this book.