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In the early literature on environmental policy instruments the common knowledge was that an appropriate application of economic instruments will give a certain environmental target specified as reductions in emissions or effluent at minimum costs (see, e.g., Kneese, 1964; Fisher and Peterson, 1976). By the introduction of spatial concerns and pollution dispersion it was found that in order to achieve a certain ambient quality at minimum cost the charge must be differentiated with respect to the location of the emission source (e.g., Tietenberg,1979; Siebert, 1992). The higher the impact of the emission from a certain source on the recipient, the higher is the charge level.
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Brännlund, R., Gren, IM. (1999). Costs of Uniform and Differentiated Charges on a Polluting Input: An Application to Nitrogen Fertilisers in Sweden. In: Boman, M., Brännlund, R., Kriström, B. (eds) Topics in Environmental Economics. Economy & Environment, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3544-5_2
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