Economic Instruments of Pollution Control in an Imperfect World Theory and Implications for Carbon Dioxide Emissions Control in China

About this book

In this book, Tingsong Jiang extensively discusses the wider issues of economic instruments of pollution control as well as paying specific attention to the control of carbon dioxide emissions in China.

`This important book by Dr Tingsong Jiang presents a framework for analysing the policies needed to tackle China's myriad of local as well as global environmental problems. It is a rigorous and innovative volume covering theoretical and empirical issues as well as focusing the results of the research directly into current debates on environmental policy in China.'
- From the preface by Warwick McKibbin

Contents

Economic instruments of pollution control - an introduction. Part I Economics of pollution control policy: earmarking of pollution charges and the sub-optimality of the Piguovian tax; stochastic general equilibrium and environmental policy choice; effectiveness and efficiency - an assessment of China's environmental protection policy. Part II Carbon Dioxide Emissions Economic Instruments of control: policy choices of internatinal carbon dioxide emissions control; a dynamic general equilibrium model of the Chinese economy; projection of China's carbon dioxide emissions; policy options of carbon dioxide emissions control in China.

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