This text contains a collection of papers on economic incentives and environmental policies which result from the authors' joint research work in the program Environment, Science and Society, conducted under the auspices of the European Science Foundation.

Environmental policy is undergoing a dramatic transformation. The problems connected with global change, the need for preventative action, and the growing importance of non-source pollution call for new courses of action and new institutional arrangements. In this situation, it is fairly obvious that both the traditional command and control policy instruments and the more modern financial and economic instruments are increasingly under stress.
This volume deliberately aims to break new ground in providing the conceptual tools necessary for the next generation of environmental...

This book contains a collection of papers on economic incentives and environmental policies which result from the authors' joint research work in the program Environment, Science and Society', conducted under the auspices of the European Science Foundation, with whose cooperation the book has been published.
The work concentrates on the scientific and methodological aspects of the development, implementation and evaluation of economic instruments at a national level. The research is both theoretical and empirical.

• At a theoretical level attention is given to the dynamics of...