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Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction.- Economic Instruments for Environmental Policy.- 2. Environmental Charges.- 2.1 Environmental Taxes: Analytical Framework.- 2.2 Environmental Taxes in the Italian White Paper on Fiscal Reform.- 2.3 Cars and Environment in Switzerland: What Kind of Taxes?.- 3. Greening of the Tax System.- 3.1 Principles of an Ecological Fiscal Reform.- 3.2 Testing the Double Dividend Hypothesis for a Carbon Tax in a Small Open Economy.- 4. Tradeable Permits.- 4.1 Designing Efficient Treaties to Protect the Global Environment.- 4.2 Designing a Trading Programme for Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides in the Northeastern United States.- 4.3 Emission Trading: The Basle Experience.- 4.4 A Tradeable Permit Market for NOX: An Application to the Chablais Region.- 4.5 Tradeable Permits in Switzerland: The Legal Perspective.- 5. Covenants.- 5.1 Covenants from Instrument of Environmental Policy to Implementation Tool.- 5.2 Covenants as Central Elements in an Effective Environmental Policy Mix.- 6. Acceptability of Economic Instruments.- 6.1 Economic Instruments and Social Acceptability: A Debate about Values.- 7. Direct Regulation and Economic Incentives: Opposition or Complementarity?.- 7.1 Direct Regulation and Economic Instruments: Antagonists or Allies?.- 7.2 Regulations and Market-based Instruments in Swiss Environmental Policy.- 8. Conclusion.- What Have We Learned About Market-based Instruments?.
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1. Introduction.- Economic Instruments for Environmental Policy.- 2. Environmental Charges.- 2.1 Environmental Taxes: Analytical Framework.- 2.2 Environmental Taxes in the Italian White Paper on Fiscal Reform.- 2.3 Cars and Environment in Switzerland: What Kind of Taxes?.- 3. Greening of the Tax System.- 3.1 Principles of an Ecological Fiscal Reform.- 3.2 Testing the Double Dividend Hypothesis for a Carbon Tax in a Small Open Economy.- 4. Tradeable Permits.- 4.1 Designing Efficient Treaties to Protect the Global Environment.- 4.2 Designing a Trading Programme for Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides in the Northeastern United States.- 4.3 Emission Trading: The Basle Experience.- 4.4 A Tradeable Permit Market for NOX: An Application to the Chablais Region.- 4.5 Tradeable Permits in Switzerland: The Legal Perspective.- 5. Covenants.- 5.1 Covenants from Instrument of Environmental Policy to Implementation Tool.- 5.2 Covenants as Central Elements in an Effective Environmental Policy Mix.- 6. Acceptability of Economic Instruments.- 6.1 Economic Instruments and Social Acceptability: A Debate about Values.- 7. Direct Regulation and Economic Incentives: Opposition or Complementarity?.- 7.1 Direct Regulation and Economic Instruments: Antagonists or Allies?.- 7.2 Regulations and Market-based Instruments in Swiss Environmental Policy.- 8. Conclusion.- What Have We Learned About Market-based Instruments?.
