Las principales aportaciones a la teoría de la regulación medioambiental. Los últimos cuarenta años

Montserrat Viladrich-Grau

doi:10.7201/earn.2004.08.03

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Montserrat Viladrich-Grau Universitat de Lleida

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https://doi.org/10.7201/earn.2004.08.03

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Environmental regulation instruments

Abstract

In this article I present the main contributions to the theory of environmental regulation developed during the last forty years. I begin the analysis in the sixties and seventies reviewing the main articles of these years, focusing in the comparison of the properties of the instruments based on economic incentives and of the instruments based on quantities. Next I evaluate the policy developments of the eighties, centering my attention on the generalization of the systems of marketable permits. Finally, I analyze how in the nineties the main interest of environmental regulation is oriented towards the solution of global environmental problems.

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Montserrat Viladrich-Grau, Universitat de Lleida

Dep. d’Administració d’ Empreses i Gestió Econòmica dels Recursos Naturals

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