Distributional Effects of Environmental and Energy Policy (Hardcover, New Ed)

Many effects of environmental and energy policy are likely to disproportionately burden those with low income. First, it raises the price of fossil-fuel-intensive products that constitute a high fraction of low-income budgets (like gasoline, heating fuel and electricity). Second, the handout of pollution permits to firms provides value to those who own them. Third, low-income individuals may place more value on food and shelter than on improvements in environmental quality, so high-income individuals may get the most benefit of pollution abatement. Fourth, air quality improvements may raise the value of houses owned by landlords, rather than helping renters. These effects might all hurt the poor more than the rich. This book brings together the seminal economics literature that studies whether these fears are valid and whether anything can be done about them.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy
Release date:	August 2009
First published:	2009
Editors:	Don Fullerton
Dimensions:	246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	518
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-2737-1
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7546-2737-3
Barcode:	9780754627371

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