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Pollution abatement strategies in Central and Eastern Europe / edited by Michael A. Toman.

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Pollution abatement strategies in Central and Eastern Europe / edited by Michael A. Toman.
Publication
Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, c1994.

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  • Toman, Michael A.
  • Resources for the Future
Description
xiv, 89 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
  • Protecting environmental quality while pursuing economic development poses a particularly difficult challenge to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, where political and economic systems are changing rapidly following decades of environmental neglect and economic mismanagement. Advanced industrial nations also face difficult decisions about priorities and procedures for providing financial assistance to the region.
  • In order to identify workable solutions, Pollution Abatement Strategies in Central and Eastern Europe investigates some of the leading pollution problems that these countries now face and examines the link between economic restructuring and environmental improvement.
  • Contributors to the volume assess the changes in the region's environmental conditions likely to result from economic restructuring and the benefits that might arise from improvements. They also consider the design of effective environmental policies for economies in transition, including the need to introduce or reform basic economic, legal, and regulatory constructs.
  • Comparisons of incentive-based versus command-and-control environmental policies suggest that, despite the difficulties in implementing them, incentive-based policy options are worth pursuing in Central and Eastern Europe.
Subject
  • Environmental policy > Europe, Central
  • Environmental policy > Europe, Eastern
  • Air > Economic aspects > Europe, Central
  • Air > Economic aspects > Europe, Eastern
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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 [and others] -- 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 economic 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 / Michale T. Rock.
ISBN
091570773X (alk. paper) :
LCCN
^^^94017714^
OCLC
30544150
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library