Overview
- Draws broad information from the review of some 25 specific EPIs, using a common assessment framework
- Sheds light on key concepts and definitions and conveys the benefits, limitations, transaction costs and opportunities of using EPIs in water policy
- Offers examples and case studies based on implemented EPIs within the EU and around the world
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Global Issues in Water Policy (GLOB, volume 14)
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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About this book
This book assesses both the effectiveness and efficiency of implemented Economic Policy Instruments (EPIs) in order to achieve water policy goals and identifies the preconditions under which they outperform alternative (e.g. regulatory) policy instruments and/or can complement them as part of complex policy mixes. The development of a consolidated assessment framework helps clarify (and where possible, quantify) the effectiveness of each EPI on the basis of different criteria. Outcome-oriented criteria describe how the EPIs perform. They include intended and unintended economic and environmental outcomes and the distribution of benefits and costs among the affected parties. These steps consider the application of cost effectiveness and cost benefits analysis, e.g. to assess ex-post performance of the EPI. Process criteria describe the institutional conditions (legislative, political, cultural, etc.) affecting the formation and operation of the EPI studied (particularly relevant for assessing the possible impacts of using economic instruments), the transaction costs involved in implementing and enforcing the instruments and the process of implementation.
Case studies from Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as from Australia, Chile, Israel and the USA are presented in this book. A wide variety of EPIs are also covered, including water-pricing schemes (tariffs, environmental taxes, environmental charges or fees, subsidies on products and practices), trading schemes (tradable permits for abstraction and pollution) and cooperation mechanisms.Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Use of Economic Instruments in Water Policy
Book Subtitle: Insights from International Experience
Editors: Manuel Lago, Jaroslav Mysiak, Carlos M. Gómez, Gonzalo Delacámara, Alexandros Maziotis
Series Title: Global Issues in Water Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18287-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-18286-5Published: 30 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36353-0Published: 29 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-18287-2Published: 21 September 2015
Series ISSN: 2211-0631
Series E-ISSN: 2211-0658
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 423
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Environmental Economics, Water, general, Environment, general