Description
The chapters provide an important foundation of knowledge and analysis about how a pandemic affects environmental tax policy. They identify lessons from policy makers' responses to the management of the pandemic and implications for addressing the threat of climate change and other environmental challenges. They highlight the need for environmental pricing instruments in the mix of policy instruments even in the wake of a pandemic. They present theory and empirical analysis, and they feature a number of country-specific case studies, including the experience of developing countries.
This book takes readers into the important and unprecedented circumstances of our time where pandemic policy meets environmental policy for the short and long terms. It will be of great interest to researchers, students and scholars in environmental policy, tax and law, as well as the industry sector, policy makers and government officials.
About the Author
Edited by Hope Ashiabor, Dr., University of New South Wales Business School, Australia, Janet E. Milne, Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Tax Policy Institute, Vermont Law School, US and Mikael Skou Andersen, Professor of Environmental Policy Analysis, Aarhus University, Denmark
Reviews
'The 2020-21 pandemic crisis confirms the opportunity for integrating environmental taxation into the core structure of fiscal systems. Carbon taxes, resources taxes, removal of environmental harmful subsidies allow labour taxes to be abated substantially. Economic instruments might not be ''the'' solution, but they are certainly ''par'' of the solution if we wish to achieve the ambitious but necessary objectives of the UN SDGs, Paris Agreement, CBD on biodiversity and natural capital. We have here substantial contributions with robust analysis that can be used by all Governments and researchers.' -- Aldo Ravazzi Douvan, Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition, Past Chair OECD Committee on Tax & Environment, President Green Budget Europe and Professor of Environmental Global Governance, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
'The current Covid-19 pandemic has shown us that once again that science is our best ally to face disease. In this book a scientific position is used to highlight global warming which is another big problem that must be attended urgently. Let's not wait until we are in the abyss to react as happened with Coronavirus, we can prevent it and do something before it is too late. Human survival depends on our actions and every second counts.' -- Daniel Irwin Yacolca Estares, National University of San Marcos, Peru
Book Information
ISBN 9781800888500
Author Hope Ashiabor
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
