Greening the budget budgetary policies for environmental improvement
Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the environme...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham
E. Elgar
c2002
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| Series: | International studies in environmental policy making
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the environment and explores the scope for greening both revenue and expenditure through specific measures pt. 1. Environmentally damaging subsidies -- pt. 2. Taxes and charges -- pt. 3. Subsidies for environmental purposes -- pt. 4. European financial transfers -- pt. 5. Public purchasing and administration |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 340 p ill |
| ISBN: | 1840647531 9781781009918 9781840647532 |