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Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth Experience in OECD Countries
- Title
- Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth [electronic resource]: Experience in OECD Countries / Paul O'Brien and Ann Vourc'h
- Author
- O'Brien, Paul.
- Publication
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2001.
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Vourc'h, Ann.
- Description
- 75 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
- Summary
- Clean air, clean water, fewer toxic emissions and less household waste are among the key environmental policy objectives that most OECD governments have been pursuing over the past three decades. This effort to take more account of the environmental costs of economic growth has been pursued in a variety of ways in different countries, and has evolved over time with policy instruments that may be technical standards, emission prohibition, tradable permits, taxes, voluntary agreements and many others. This paper surveys aspects of environmental and natural resource policy in a number of OECD countries paying particular attention to how countries succeed in conducting cost-effective and consistent policies in the environment and natural resource areas, not on environmental policy or outcomes per se. Four common themes emerged: attempts to design institutions or processes to achieve co-ordination across policies and sectors; certain sectors where policies make environmental objectives ...
- Series Statement
- OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.293
- Uniform Title
- OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.293.
- Subject
- Economics
- LCCN
- 10.1787/046738633224
- OCLC
- oecd-lib-004688
- Author
- O'Brien, Paul.
- Title
- Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth [electronic resource]: Experience in OECD Countries / Paul O'Brien and Ann Vourc'h
- Imprint
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2001.
- Series
- OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.293OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.293.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Economics
- Added Author
- Vourc'h, Ann.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 10.1787/046738633224 doi