Is the Environment a Luxury?: An Inquiry Into the Relationship Between Environment and Income

ISBN-13: 9780367669546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 246 str.

Silvia Tiezzi; Chiara Martini

Opis

The purpose of this collection of essays is to shed some light on the complex relationship between environmental quality and the distribution of income. Are the preferences of the poor towards a cleaner environment really different from those of the rich? Environmental economists have traditionally focused on efficiency issues.

Spis treści

Preface 1. Introduction Part I: Income and environmental quality - Theory and Empirics 2. Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality 3. The Income Elasticity of the Impact of Climate Change Part II: The Distributional Incidence of Benefits of Environmental Improvements 4. Environmental Goods and the Distribution of Income Environment and Resource Economics 5. How Much do we Care about Air Quality Improvements? Evidence from Italian Households Part III: The Distributional Incidence of the Costs of Environmental Policies: the case of carbon/energy taxes 6. Household level studies on the distributional impact of carbon/energy taxes 7. Firm level studies on the distributional impact of carbon/energy taxes 8. Distributional Effects of Carbon Pricing in Ireland: a CGE approach Part IV: The Role of Fairness and Distributional Weights in Environmental Public goods Provision 9. Distributional Weights in Cost-Benefit Analysis. Should we forget about them? 10. Fair Air: Distributive Justice and Environmental Economics

O autorze

Silvia Tiezzi is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Siena, Italy.

Chiara Martini is Assistant Professor of Economic Policy at Roma Tre University, Italy.