Environmental Policy: Objectives, Instruments, and Implementation

This volume addresses the practical issues that arise in applying economic instruments to environmental policy. It surveys the main concepts and tools—such as sustainability, biodiversity, and cost-benefit analysis—and analyzes the broad environmental policy agenda, including the global agreement on climate change and the narrow British context.

This volume addresses the practical issues that arise in applying economic instruments to environmental policy. It surveys the main concepts and tools—such as sustainability, biodiversity, and cost-benefit analysis—and analyzes the broad environmental policy agenda, including the global agreement on climate change and the narrow British context.

Dieter Helm is a member of the DTIs Energy Advisory Panel and chairman of the DETRs Academic Panel. He is an Associate Editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and editor of The Utilities Journal. He has advised government and industry in the UK, USA, New Zealand, Japan, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Argentina, Germany, and France.