Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation International and Comparative Perspectives Volume V

Name: Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation
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Author: Nathalie Chalifour; Janet E Milne; Hope Ashiabor; Kurt Deketelaere; Larry Kreiser
ISBN: 9780199542185

Edited by Nathalie Chalifour · Janet E Milne · Hope Ashiabor · Kurt Deketelaere · Larry Kreiser

Oxford University Press February 2008

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ISBN-13: 9780199542185
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: February 2008
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: International ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Provides a global perspective of environmental taxation with contributions from an expert international author team representing 16 countries
Includes multidisciplinary analysis from leading experts in law, economics, political sciences, accounting, taxation and environmental policy
Supported by the other volumes in the series, Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation , volume V, enables developments in the field to be tracked and key trends identified
Clearly structured text with the papers divided into Parts and organised according to topic

Volume V in the Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation series is an interdisciplinary, selection of papers on economic instruments written by international experts from in the field. The Volume contains forty articles written by authors from sixteen countries and representing disciplines such as law, economics, accounting, taxation, environmental policy and political sciences. The articles were selected from papers presented at the Seventh Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation in October 2006 in Ottawa, Canada.

The book is clearly structured with the articles divided into Parts and organised by topic. Part 2 features articles on issues relating to the implementation of economic instruments, such as political acceptability, competitiveness, instrument choice and design, institutional issues and even psychological dimensions. Part 3 includes a range of national case studies on topics such as transportation, energy, natural resources and urban sustainability. Part 4 offers a number of papers offering comparative analysis and Part 5 closes with some papers on complementary instruments and alternative approaches.

The book and its sister volumes in the series are a unique and invaluable resource for anyone interested in the next generation of policy instruments for transitioning to sustainable economies.

Readership: This work presents valuable research and analysis for those involved in environmental and tax law and policy in the private and public sector, including legislators, policymakers, legal advisers and scholars.

I: The Context
1: Lester Brown: Restructuring Taxes to Sustain our Twenty-First Century Civilization
II: Moving from Theory to Practice - Implementation of Environmental Taxes and other Economic Instruments
POLITICAL ACCEPTABILITY
2: Shi-Ling Hsu: Some Quasi-behavioral Arguments for Environmental Taxation 3: Philippe Thalmann and Andrea Baranzini: Gradual Introduction of Coercive Instruments in Climate Policy
COMPETITIVENESS
4: Paul Ekins and Stefan Speck: Environmental Tax Reform in Europe: Energy Tax Rates and Competitiveness
INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES
5: Mark Burton: Institutional Building and the Introduction of Economic Instruments in Australia - the Path Ahead
6: Janet E. Milne: New Instruments on Old Turf: The Institutional Challenges of Environmental Taxation
DESIGN AND CHOICE OF INSTRUMENTS
7: Stephan Barg: Applying the Principles of Adaptive Policy Design to Environmental Taxes
8: Kai Schlegelmilch and Maike Bunse: Ecological Tax Reform and Emissions Trading - Can they Work Together in Practice? An Empirical Analysis for Germany
9: Claudia Dias Soares: Coordinating Energy Taxes with the EU Emission Trading System
10: Tracy Snoddon and Randall Wigle: Fraying Over Paying: Who Will Bear the Costs of Greenhouse Policy?
11: Hope Ashiabor, Patricia Blazey and Ben Connors: The Political Economy of Taxes and Emissions Trading in Australia's Climate Change Policies
LEGAL LIMITS
12: Amparo Grau, Pablo Chico and Pedro Herrera: Green Taxes versus Economic Freedoms: an ECJ Case Law Approach
PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS
13: Stephanie Stern: Reconsidering Crowding Out of Intrinsic Motivation from Financial Incentives: The Case of Conservation on Private Lands
III: National Case Studies
TRANSPORT
14: Hana Bruhová-Foltýnová and Jan Bruha: Assessment of Fiscal Measures on Atmospheric Pollution from Transport in Urban Areas
15: Richard W. England and Rachel E. Carlson: Motor Fuel Taxation and regional Development: Economic, Environmental, and Legal Aspects
16: Zen Makuch, Tim Foxon, Peter Pearson and Macarena Mata: Regulatory and Related Policy Drivers and Barriers to Sustainable Innovation: Energy Sources in Vehicles
17: Nic Rivers and Pierre Sadik: Evaluation of Potential Changes in the Tax Treatment of Company Cars in Canada
18: Giorgio Panella, Andrea Zatti and Fiorenza Carraro: The Energy Regulation in Italy: Enhancing Sustainability
19: Adrian Sawyer: New Zealand's Failed Attempt at a Carbon Tax - Fatally Flawed or Mismanaged?
NATURAL RESOURCES
20: Joan Kuyek: The Need to Shift Canadian Tax Incentives to Reduce the Impact of the Mineral Industry on the Environment and Local Communities
21: Attiya Waris: Taxation and a Clean and Healthy Environment: A Case Study of the Mining of Titanium in Kenya
TOXICS AND WASTE
22: Monika Böhm and Richard L. Williamson: An Analysis of the Effectiveness and the Side-effects of the German Wastewater Fee Law
23: Jack Donnan, Gunasardana Balasuriya and Ines Havet: Extra Strength Sewer Surcharges in Ontario: Do they Really Reduce Contaminant Loadings?
24: Lars-Bo Jacobsen, Jorgen D. Jensen, Jens Hauch, Chris J. Topping and Martin Andersen: Pesticide Reducing Instruments - An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Effectiveness and Optimality
SUBSIDIES
25: Daniela Kletzan & Angela Köppl: Analysis of Energy Related Subsidies in Austria
26: Tilmann Rave: Subsidy Impact Assessments and Subsidy Monitoring - Opportunities to Advance the Reform of Environmentally Harmful Subsidies in Germany
MUNICIPAL LEVEL
27: Mathew Dickson: Tax Reform as if Sustainability Mattered: A Policy Analysis to Demonstrate the Viability of Environmental Tax Shifting in Vancouver's Sustainability Precinct
28: Mona L. Hymel, Roberta F. Mann & Beth S. Wolfsong: Trading Greenbacks for Green Behavior: Oregon and the City of Portland's Environmental Incentives
GENERAL
29: Anselm Görres and Jacqueline Cottrell: The Tragic Paradox: Germany's Very Successful But Not Very Popular Green Budget Reform - Lessons from Seven Years of Courageous Turnaround (1999 to 2005)
30: Silja Lüpsik: Estonian Ecological Tax Reform Successfully Launched
31: Jonathan Remy Nash: Taxes and the Success of Non-Tax Market-Based Environmental Regulatory Regimes
32: Jan Pavel and Leo Vitek: Revenue Neutral Environmental Tax Reform - Case of the Czech Republic
33: Fumiaki Toudou: The Limits to Self-Restraint and Eco-Efficiency, Proposed Application of Environmental Taxation in Japanese Environmental Policy
IV: Comparative Analysis
34: Jacqueline Cottrell: Marketing Market-Based Environmental Policy Instruments: The Case of the UK Climate Change Levy and the German Ecotax Reform
35: David G. Duff and Andrew J. Green: Market-Based Policies for Renewable Energy Source Electricity: A Comparative Evaluation
36: Ann Hansford and Margaret McKerchar: Climate Change Post-Kyoto: A Tax Policy Perspective
37: Anna Mortimore: Which Fiscal Instruments are effective in reducing Carbon Emissions from Road Transport? Australia's Greenhouse Measures and Tax Instruments Compared Internationally
V: Complimentary Instruments and Alternative Applications
38: Stewart A.G. Elgie: Designing Forest Carbon Markets for Efficiency, Ecology and Equity
39: Larry Kreiser, Hans Sprohge, Bill Butcher and Julsuchada Sirisom: Tax Strategies to Deal with an Environmental Disaster
40: Kate Miles: Targeting Financiers: Can Voluntary Codes of Conduct for the Investment and Financing Sectors Achieve Environmental and Sustainability Objectives?

About the Author

Edited by Nathalie Chalifour, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada, Janet E Milne, Professor of Law, Vermont Law School; Director, Environmental Tax Policy Institute, Hope Ashiabor, Associate Professor of Law, Macquarie University, Sydney, Kurt Deketelaere, Full Professor of Law and Director, Institute for Environmental and Energy Law, University of Leuven, and Larry Kreiser, Professor Emeritus of Accounting, Cleveland State University

Contributors:
Lester Brown, Earth Policy Institute
Shi-Ling Hsu, University of British Columbia
Philippe Thalmann, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Andrea Baranzini, Geneva School of Business Administration
Paul Ekins, Policy Studies Institute
Stefan Speck, National Environmental Institute
Dr. Mark Burton, University of Canberra
Stephan Barg, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Kai Schlegelmilch, Federal Ministry for the Environment
Maike Bunse, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy GmBH
Claudia Dias Soares, Portugues Catholic University
Tracy Snoddon, Wilfrid Laurier University
Randall Wigle, Wilfrid Laurier University
Patricia Blazey, Macquarie University
Ben Connors, Maquarie University
Amparo Grau, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Pablo Chico, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Pedro Herrera, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Stephanie Stern, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Hana Bruhová-Foltýnová , Charles University Environment Centre
Jan Bruha, Charles University Environment Centre
Richard W. England, University of New Hampshire
Rachel E. Carlson, University of New Hampshire
Zen Makuch, Imperial College London
Tim Foxon, Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research
Peter Pearson, Imperial College London
Macarena Mata, Imperial College London
Nic Rivers, Simon Fraser University
Pierre Sadik, David Suzuki Foundation
Giorgio Panella, University of Pavia
Andrea Zatti, University of Pavia
Fiorenza Carraro, University of Pavia
Adrian Sawyer, University of Canterbury
Joan Kuyek, Miningwatch Canada
Attiya Waris, University of Nairobi
Monika Böhm, University of Marburg
Richard L. Williamson, University of Miami School of Law
Jack Donnan, Formerly Ontario Ministries of Energy and Environment
Gunasardana Balasuriya, Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion
Ines Havet, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Lars-Bo Jacobsen, University of Copenhagen
Jorgen D. Jensen, University of Copenhagen
Jens Hauch, University of Copenhagen
Chris J. Topping, University of Aarhus
Martin Andersen, University of Copenhagen
Daniela Kletzan, Austrian Institute of Economic Research
Angela Köppl, Austrian Institute of Economic Research
Tilmann Rave, Institute for Economic Research, Environment, Regions and Transport, Germany
Mathew Dickson, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Mona L. Hymel, University of Arizona
Roberta F. Mann , Widener University
Beth S. Wolfsong, Multnomah County Circuit Court, Oregon
Anselm Görres, Green Budget Germany
Jacqueline Cottrell, Green Budget Germany
Silja Lüpsik, Ministry of the Environment, Estonia
Jonathan Remy Nash, Tulane Law School
Jan Pavel, University of Economics, Czech Republic
Leo Vitek, University of Economics, Czech Republic
Fumiaki Toudou, University of Economics, Czech Republic
David G Duff, University of Toronto
Andrew J Green, University of Toronto
Ann Hansford, Bristol Business School
Magaret McKerchar, University of New South Wales
Anna Mortimore, Griffith University, Queensland
Stewart A G Elgie, Universitty of Ottowa
Hans Sproghe, Wright University, USA
Bill Butcher, University of New South Wales
Julsuchada Sirisom, Mahasarakham University, Thailand
Katie Miles, University of Sydney