Full Description
Green Taxation and Environmental Sustainability explores the critical issue of how taxes can be applied across relevant environmental areas - including transport, nuclear power, and water and waste management - to achieve sustainability. Containing topical chapters written by environmental experts, the book covers a number of key issues, including: interaction of biofuels and EU state aid rules; territorial differences for transport fuel demand; electric vehicles, taxation and electricity transmission; public policy issues on the disposal of high-level radioactive waste in Japan; landfill and waste incineration taxes; and many other topics.
This insightful study will appeal to policymakers in government, as well as to students and academics in environmental law, environmental economics and environmental sustainability.
Contributors include: A. Anton Anton, K. Bachus, S. Bassi, N.A. Braathen, M. Burguillo, P. del Rio, J.M. Domingues, A. Fuenmayor, A.C. Gonzalez Martinez, M.A. Grau Ruiz, M. Jofra Sora, M. Jorge, R. Lafuente, S. Lee, J.E. Milne, R. Palanca-Tan, S.-J. Park, L.A. Pecorelli-Peres, I. Pisano, C. Priego, I. Puig Ventosa, D. Romero, E.E. Steinhilber, J. Truby, K. Ueta, J.R. Voegele, E. Watkins, R.H. Weber
Contents
Contents:
Preface
PART I: MEASURING GREEN TAXES
1. Improving the Methodology for Measuring the Greening of the Tax System
Kris Bachus
2. New Information in the OECD Database on Instruments Used for Environmental Policy
Nils Axel Braathen
PART II: ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
3. Promotion of Biofuels and EU State Aid Rules: The Case of Spain
Álvaro Antón Antón
4. Territorial Differences for Transport Fuel Demand in Spain: An Econometric Study
Pablo del Río, Desiderio Romero, Marta Jorge and Mercedes Burguillo
5. Environmental Concern and Sustainability: When Citizens Assess Urban Mobility, Do They Consider the Environment?
Ignacio Pisano, Regina Lafuente and Carlos Priego
6. Taxing Malls: Ways to Achieve Sustainable Urban Mobility and Transport
María Amparo Grau Ruiz
PART III: NEW APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
7. Electric Vehicles: Plugging into the US Tax Code
Janet E. Milne
8. Electric Vehicles, Taxes and Public Policies in Brazil
José Marcos Domingues and Luiz Artur Pecorelli-Peres
9. Automobile Taxation in Spain: Recent Reforms and Future Proposals
Amadeo Fuenmayor
10. Fiscal Tools for Inclusion of GCC States in the Global Environmental Programme: Focus Upon New Vehicle Imports
Jon Truby
PART IV: ENCOURAGING NEW RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES
11. Taxation and Electricity Transmission: Bringing Wind Energy onto the Grid
Emily E. Steinhilber and Jonathan R. Voegele
12. Public-Private Partnerships as Incentive to Foster Sustainable Technologies
Rolf H. Weber
PART V: NUCLEAR POWER EXTERNALITIES
13. Public Policy Issues on the Disposal of High-level Radioactive Waste in Japan
Soocheol Lee and Kazuhiro Ueta
14. Fueling Meltdown: Nuclear Tax and Subsidy in Japan
Seung-Joon Park
PART VI: WATER AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
15. Looking for Evidence of Landfill Tax Effectiveness in the European Union
Samuela Bassi and Emma Watkins
16. Landfill and Waste Incineration Taxes in Catalonia, Spain
Ignasi Puig Ventosa, Ana Citlalic González Martínez and Marta Jofra Sora
17. Raw Water Pricing for Ground Water Preservation: A Policy Advocacy Exercise in CDO, Philippines
Rosalina Palanca-Tan
Index
