Full Description
Environmental Taxation in China and Asia-Pacific contains an integrated set of detailed chapters providing insights and analysis on how fiscal policy can be used to achieve environmental sustainability. Highly topical chapters include energy tax policy in China, environmental fiscal reform, carbon tax policy in northeast Asia and environmental taxation strategies in China, Asia and Australia, as well as many other relevant topics.
Written by distinguished environmental taxation scholars from around the world, the emphasis of this book is on finding solutions to environmental problems which merit serious consideration by policy makers as well as academics in environmental law and other academic disciplines.
Contributors include: H. Ashiabor, K. Bachus, B. Butcher, J. Cao, J. Cottrell, S. Gao, C. Ge, T.T. Le Nguyen, X. Liu, F. Long, Y. Lu, A. Mortimore, R. Nel, T.H.Y. Nguyen, G. Nienaber, K. Ogisu, P. Pearce, Y. Ren, M. Sacccasan, T. Shishime, S. Suk, G. Sun, S.L. Tan, D.J. Thampapillai, J. Wang, W. Wang
Contents
Contents:
Foreword
Rae Kwon Chung
Preface
PART I: ENVIRONMENTAL TAXATION STRATEGIES IN CHINA
1. Greening the Dragon: Energy Tax Policy in China
Walter Wang
2. Policy Design of Environmental Tax in China
Jinnan Wang, Chazhong Ge, Shuting Gao and Yajuan Ren
3. Lagging Behind or Catching Up? A Comparison of Chinese and European Environmentally Related Taxes
Kris Bachus and Jing Cao
4. Assessment of Fiscal Intervention Measures in China: Perspectives from Environmental Macroeconomics
Seck L. Tan and Dodo J. Thampapillai
5. Study on the Design of Wastewater Environmental Tax in China: From Wastewater Pollutant Discharge Fee to Environmental Tax
Chazhong Ge, Shuting Gao, Yajuan Ren, Guili Sun and Feng Long
PART II: ENVIRONMENTAL TAXATION STRATEGIES IN ASIA
6. Selling Climate Change Mitigation Measures: The Co-benefits of Environmental Fiscal Reform
Jacqueline Cottrell
7. Carbon Tax Policy Progress in North-east Asia
Xianbing Liu, Kazunori Ogisu, Sunhee Suk and Tomohiro Shishime
8. Approaching Environmental Fee to Plastic Bag Waste Management in Ho Chi Minh City Supermarkets
Le Nguyen Thuy Trang and Nguyen Thi Hai Yen
PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL TAXES TO REDUCE VEHICLE EMISSIONS IN ASIA-PACIFIC
9. Mandating Emission Targets Can Significantly Reduce Road Transport Emissions in Australia
Anna Mortimore
10. Enhancing Green Tax Measures Concerning Energy Use in Hong Kong
Yuzhu Lu
11. Prospects of South African Vehicle Emissions Tax Reducing CO2 Emissions
Rudie Nel and Gerhard Nienaber
12. Australian Tax Reform for Sustainable Transportation
Prafula Pearce
PART IV: ENVIRONMENTAL TAXATION IN AUSTRALIA
13. The Political Economy of Australia's Proposed Resource Rent Taxation Regime
Hope Ashiabor and Moira Saccasan
14. Australia's Proposals to Tax Coal Super Profits: A Cautionary Tale for the Environment
Bill Butcher
Index
