The Theory and Practice of Command and Control in Environmental Policy

The Theory and Practice of Command and Control in Environmental Policy
Author: Peter Berck
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2018-01-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 135176957X

This title was first published in 2003. Economists have had increasing success in arguing the merits of market-based approaches to environmental problems. By making polluting expensive, market-based approaches provide polluters with incentives to clean up, rather than mandates to stop polluting. These approaches include pollution taxes, transferable emissions permits and subsidies for pollution abatement. The purpose of this volume is to explore the situations where Command and Control (CAC) may not be all bad, and in fact might even have some advantages over market-based instruments (MBI).