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Is the Environment a Luxury?

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Is the Environment a Luxury?

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Is the Environment a Luxury? book

An Inquiry into the relationship between environment and income

Is the Environment a Luxury?

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Is the Environment a Luxury? book

An Inquiry into the relationship between environment and income
Edited BySilvia Tiezzi, Chiara Martini
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 8 July 2014
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315819594
Pages 260
eBook ISBN 9781315819594
Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Environment and Sustainability
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Tiezzi, S., & Martini, C. (Eds.). (2014). Is the Environment a Luxury?: An Inquiry into the relationship between environment and income (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315819594

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this collection of essays is to shed some light on the complex relationship between environmental quality and the distribution of income. Are the preferences of the poor towards a cleaner environment really different from those of the rich?

Environmental economists have traditionally focused on efficiency issues. In their analyses the quality of the environment is usually related to aggregate or average variables, like per capita income; policy recommendations are usually formulated considering efficiency with no regard for equity and also the predicted effects of policies are evaluated in aggregate terms.

The essays collected in this volume go into the problem of the relationship between environmental quality and income distribution. The book’s opening essay shows how different theories of economic growth and environmental quality seem to suggest that the higher the level of income the higher is the value of environmental protection. The essays that follow, a mix of already published papers and of papers solicited for this book, analyse the relationship between environmental quality and income distribution from different perspectives (both micro and macro) and on the basis of more than one methodology.

This book highlights that the preferences of the poor towards a cleaner environment may differ from those of the rich, but income is also very likely to represent only one factor affecting them. The essays consider other relevant factors affecting preferences for environmental quality. What clearly emerges is that the distribution of costs and benefits of environmental policies is the key for their successful implementation, and that further research is needed to both address the distributional effects themselves and the strategies to mitigate them.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

ByCHIARA MARTINI, SILVIA TIEZZI

part |2 pages

Part I Income and environmental quality: theory and empirics

chapter 2|21 pages

Willingness to pay for environmental quality: testable empirical implications of the growth and environment literature

Edited BySilvia Tiezzi, Chiara Martini

chapter 3|15 pages

The income elasticity of the impact of climate change

ByDAVID ANTHOFF AND RICHARD S.J. TOL

part |2 pages

Part II The distributional incidence of benefits of environmental improvements

chapter 4|25 pages

Environmental goods and the distribution of income

ByUDO EBERT

chapter 5|23 pages

How much do we care about air quality improvements? Evidence from Italian households

Edited BySilvia Tiezzi, Chiara Martini

part |2 pages

Part III The distributional incidence of the costs of environmental policies: the case of carbon/energy taxes

chapter 6|27 pages

Household-level studies on the distributional impact of carbon/energy taxes

Edited BySilvia Tiezzi, Chiara Martini

chapter 7|29 pages

Carbon pricing and distributional effects on firms: a methodological survey

Edited BySilvia Tiezzi, Chiara Martini

chapter 8|32 pages

Distributional effects of carbon pricing in Ireland: a computational general equilibrium approach

Edited BySilvia Tiezzi, Chiara Martini

part |2 pages

Part IV The role of fairness and distributional weights in environmental public goods provision

chapter 9|22 pages

Distributional weights in cost-benefit analysis: should we forget about them?

Edited BySilvia Tiezzi, Chiara Martini

chapter 10|24 pages

Fair air: distributive justice and environmental economics

ByOLOF JOHANSSON-STENMAN AND JAMES KONOW
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