Environmental fiscal challenges for cities and transport. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marta Villar Ezcurra (professor of financial and tax law, CEU San Pablo University, Spain), Janet E. Milne (professor of law and director of the Environmental Tax Policy Institute, Vermont Law School, USA), Hope Ashiabor (associate professor of law, faculty of business and economics, Macquarie University, Australia), Mikael Skou Andersen (professor of environmental policy analysis, Aarhus University, Denmark).
• Editors: Villar Ezcurra, Marta; Milne, Janet E; Ashiabor, Hope; Andersen, Mikael Skou
• Contents: Preface -- Part I: -- impacts of the emerging 21st century economy -- 1. Environmental taxation in the digital world -- Janet E. Milne -- 2. Is the low level of taxes on e-commerce contributing to an environmentally unfriendly growth of transport? -- Marta Villar Ezcurra -- 3. Tax incentives to green investments: Limits to state's cuts back. A reflection on legitimate expectations & fair and equitable treatment to investments -- Jerónimo Maillo -- Part II: -- Fiscal environmental policies for urban concentration -- 4. Smart cities: Can business improvement districts reduce the environmental footprint of urban areas? -- Helena Villarejo Galende, María Luisa Esteve Pardo and Clara Peiret García -- 5. The costs and benefits of extended producer responsibility: An evaluation of the Italian waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) management system -- Edoardo Croci and Francesco Colelli -- 6. Fiscal policy for decarbonisation of energy in Europe, with a focus on urban transport: Case study and proposal for Spain -- David Robinson, Pedro Linares Llamas, Xiral López-Otero and Renato Rodrigues -- 7. A proposed green tax reform for cyprus and its co-benefits for urban sustainability -- Theodoros Zachariadis -- 8. The agricultural conundrum: Encouraging climate-friendly agriculture through economic instruments in North America -- Emma Akrawi -- Part III: -- Challenging issues for transport taxes -- 9. External costs and environmental taxation: The role of transport sectors within the Italian economy -- Andrea Molocchi -- 10. Is road pricing the key to sustainable low-carbon road transport in Australia? -- Vanessa Johnston -- 11. Taxing vehicle use to overcome the problems of conventional transport taxes -- Alberto Gago, Xavier Labandeira and Xiral López-Otero -- 12. Sharing cars: A legal and economic analysis of the taxation of B2C carsharing models -- Fanny Vanrykel, Bruno de Borger and Marc Bourgeois -- 13. Renewable energy, smarts grids and hybrid vehicles: A Brazilian case study -- Elena Aydos, Rafaela Cristina Oliari and Carlos Araújo Leonetti -- Part IV: -- The evaluation of cross-cutting policies -- 14. Ex-post cost-benefit analysis of environmentally related tax policies. Building on programme evaluation studies -- Jonas Teusch and Nils Axel Braathen -- 15. Designing carbon taxes: Economic and legal considerations -- Claudia Kettner, Daniela Kletzan-Slamanig, Stefan E. Weishaar and Irene J.J. Burgers -- 16. The use of the effective carbon rate (ECR) as an indicator for climate mitigation policy -- Kris Bachus and Ping Gao -- 17. The G20 peer review of fossil fuel subsidies -- Aldo Ravazzi Douvan and Gionata Castaldi -- 18. Increasing fiscal transparency in energy policies -- Leyla Ates and Sevil Acar -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 284 pages)
• Subjects: 336.2; Environmental impact charges; Sustainable development; Environmental economics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789904185; 1789904188
• Related ISBNs: 178990417X; 9781789904178
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 04, 2019).
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