Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation International and Comparative Perspectives Volume IV

PART I: LEGAL ISSUES
1: David G. Duff & Andrew J. Green: Wind Power in Canada
2: José Juan González M.: Legal mechanisms to promote the use of renewable sources of energy in Mexico: The role of taxation
3: Abdul Haseeb Ansari: Tax incentives to renewable energy sources in Malaysia: A critical appraisal
4: Kai Schlegelmilch: Introducing a Kerosene Tax: Attitudes of European and Other Countries and New Legal Possibilities of the EU Energy Tax Directive
5: Janet E. Milne: Violating the Polluter-Pays Principle? Two Case Studies of United States Tax Incentives for Alternative Energy
6: Rowena Cantley-Smith: Environmental Regulation of Australian Energy Markets: Are Mandatory Renewable Targets Effective in reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
7: Claudia Dias Soares: The case of renewable energy sources in the European Union: Between market liberalization and public intervention
8: Kenneth R. Richards: Environmental Taxes in the United States
9: Willemien du Plessis: Recent Developments in the Use of Environmental and Energy Taxes in South Africa
10: Denise D. Fort: The Use of Environmental Taxes as a Water Management Strategy
11: Anna Mortimore: Australia's greenhouse measures provide the answer to reducing greenhouse gas emissions - the alternative to 'environmentally related taxes'?
12: Pedro M. Herrera, Pablo Chico & Amparo Grau: Taxation of Energy-Related Risk Activities
13: Natalie P. Stoianoff & Andrew H. Kelly: Conserving Native Vegetation on Private Land: Subsidising Sustainable Use of Biodiversity?
PART II: ECONOMIC ISSUES
14: Mikael Skou Andersen: External effects from power production and the treatment of wind energy (and other renewables) in the Danish energy taxation system
15: Larry Kreiser, Hans Sprohge, Julsuchada Sirisom & Bill Butcher: Considerations Against Tax Incentives for Energy from Open-Loop Biomass
16: Michael Kohlhaas & Stefan Bach: The effect of special provisions in the framework of energy taxes on the environmental effectiveness - The case of Germany
17: Vojtech Máca, Hana Foltýnová & J. Bruha: Tackling the growth in international road haulage using economic instruments: A case of the Czech Republic
18: Stefan Weishaar: CO2 emission allowance allocation mechanisms, allocative efficiency and the environment
PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL OR ENERGY ISSUES
19: Patrik Söderholm & Kristina Ek: The Political Economy of Integrating Markets for Tradable Renewable Energy Credits: Lessons from the Swedish-Norwegian Case
20: Karolien Verhaegen, Leonardo Meeus & Ronnie Belmans: Towards an international certificate system - The stimulating example of Belgium
21: Anselm Görres & Jacqueline Cottrell: Green Subsidies: Politically popular, economically costly, environmentally ambiguous
PART IV: POLITICAL OR SOCIOLOGICAL ISSUES
22: Julie A. Lockhart: Environmental taxation: a tool to advance eco-justice?
23: Rahmat Tavallali & Paul Lee: Tax incentives Policy for Fuel Efficiency: Does It Really Work?
24: Patrik Söderholm & Anna Christiernsson: Environmental Taxation of Fertilizers in Europe: Policy Design, Outcome and Future Potential
25: Amy Taylor, Matthew Bramley & Mark Winfield: Government Spending on Canada's Oil and Gas industry: Undermining Canada's Kyoto Commitments
 
 
 

Edited by Kurt Deketelaere, Full Professor of Law and Director, Institute for Environmental and Energy Law, University of Leuven, Janet E. Milne, Professor of Law, Vermont Law School; Director, Environmental Tax Policy Institute, Lawrence A. Kreiser, Professor Emeritus of Accounting, Cleveland State University, and Hope Ashiabor, Associate Professor of Law, Macquarie University, Sydney

Mikael Skou Andersen, National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark

Abdul Haseeb Ansari, IIU, Malaysia

Stefan Bach, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany

Ronnie Belmans, University of Leuven, The Netherlands

Matthew Bramley, Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development, Canada

J. Bruha, Charles University Environment Centre, Prague, Czech Republic

Bill Butcher, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Rowena Cantley-Smith, Monash University, Australia

Pablo Chico, Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, Spain

Anna Christiernsson, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Jacqueline Cottrell, Green Budget Germany, Germany

David G. Duff, University of Toronto, Canada

Willemien du Plessis, North-West University, South Africa

Kristina Ek, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Hana Foltýnová, Charles University Environment Centre, Prague, Czech Republic

Denise D. Fort, University of New Mexico School of Law, USA

José Juan González M., Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico

Anselm Görres, Green Budget Germany, Germany

Amparo Grau, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Andrew J. Green, University of Toronto, Canada

Pedro M. Herrera, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Andrew H. Kelly, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Michael Kohlhaas, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany

Larry Kreiser, Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA

Paul Lee, Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA

Julie A. Lockhart, Western Washington University, USA

Vojtech Máca, Charles University Environment Centre, Prague, Czech Republic

Leonardo Meeus, University of Leuven, The Netherlands

Janet E. Milne, Vermont Law School, USA

Anna Mortimore, Griffith University, Australia

Kenneth R. Richards, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, USA

Kai Schlegelmilch, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Berlin, Germany

Julsuchada Sirisom, Mahasarakham University, Thailand

Claudia Dias Soares, Portuguese Catholic University

Patrik Söderholm, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Hans Sprohge, Wright State University, Ohio, USA

Natalie P. Stoianoff, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Rahmat Tavallali, Walsh University, Ohio, USA

Amy Taylor, Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development, Canada

Karolien Verhaegen, University of Leuven, Belgium

Stefan Weishaar, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

Mark Winfield, Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development, Canada