Pollution Abatement Strategies in Central and Eastern Europe

ISBN-13: 9781138407176 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Michael A. Toman

Opis

Protecting environmental quality while pursuing economic development poses a particularly difficult challenge to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. This book investigates some of the leading pollution problems that these countries face and examines the link between economic restructuring and environmental improvement.

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Foreword

Douglas R. Bohi

Preface

Michael A. Toman

Motor Vehicles and Pollution in Central and Eastern Europe

Margaret A. Walls

Assessing the Health Benefits of Improved Air Quality in Central and Eastern Europe

Alan J. Krupnick, Kenneth W. Harrison, Eric J. Nickell, and Michael A. Toman

Using Economic Incentives to Reduce Air Pollution Emissions in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland

Michael A. Toman

Cost-Effective Control of Water Pollution in Central and Eastern Europe

Charles M. Paulsen

Tradable Sulfur Dioxide Emission Permits and European Integration

Dallas Burtraw

The Allocation of Environmental Liabilities in Central and Eastern Europe

James Boyd

Environmental Policies, Economic Restructuring, and Institutional Development in the Former Soviet Union

Michael A. Toman and R. David Simpson

Economic Restructuring and the Environment: Exploiting Win-Win Opportunities

Michael T. Rock

O autorze

Michael A. Toman is a senior fellow and the director of the Energy and Natural Resources division at Resources for the Future. He is the coauthor, coeditor, and editor of several books, including Climate Change Economics and Policy: An RFF Anthology, Assessing Surprises and Nonlinearities in Greenhouse Warming, and Technology Options for Electricity Generation.