In developing countries, the rapid proliferation of informal firms – low-technology unlicensed micro-enterprises – is having significant environmental impacts. Yet environmental management authorities typically ignore such firms.

The regulation of industrial pollution is difficult in a rapidly industrialising, low-income setting. This study looks at the efforts to regulate chemical plants in Ankleshwar, the largest chemical estate in Asia.

In this paper, we discuss the effect of refunding environmental charges.

An optimal first-best road charge should not only be differentiated with respect to factors that affect the direct external environmental and time costs from the road-user himself.

Indirect effects, such as the fact that others’ cars will be more polluting when congestion increases, should also be taken into account.

Understanding relationship between environmental protection and economic development is crucial to form practical environmental policy. At micro level, implementation of environmental regulations often causes production mills adjustment of technology which might leads to change of productive efficiency and cost, which, in turn, determine effort level of mills and even local government in pollution control.

We use firm-level data to study the adoption of Environmental Management Practices
(EMPs) in the most polluting industrial sectors in Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland,
Romania, and Slovakia during the 1990 – 1998 period when these countries were in a
transition away from a centrally planned economy.

The Swedish coastal zone is a scene of conflicting interests
about various goods and services provided by nature.
Open-access conditions and the public nature of
many services increase the difficulty in resolving these
conflicts.

Global environmental problems are often assumed to imply extensive inefficiencies since there is no global authority corresponding to the government at a national level.

This paper shows, on the contrary, that rich countries in a free unregulated market may still undertake globally efficient abatement investments, given the existence of limited non-paternalistic altruism.

This paper presents an experimental study of two different pollution compliance games: collective vis-à-vis random fining as a means to regulate non-point pollution. Result suggests the importance of considering subject pool differences in the evaluation of environmental policies by means of experiments, particularly if those policies involve certain forms of management decisions.

This paper provides an overview and a discussion of environmental taxes in Europe. On the whole, most European countries have fairly high levels of environmental taxation – at least compared to the US.