Batneec: The Economics of Technology-Based Environmental Standards, With a Uk Case Illustration

Pearce, David; Brisson, Inger

doi:10.1093/oxrep/9.4.24

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“…Depending on the country, standards may be set on the basis of allowable emissions, ambient concentrations of pollutants in the receiving environment or permitted technology. Technology-based standards are very common and usually centre on the notion of 'best available technology' (BAT) or some variant of this (Pearce, 2000). 'Best' here refers to technology that is regarded as suitable in terms of its environmental performance.…”

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Public and private spending for environmental protection: a cross‐country policy analysis

Pearce

Palmer

2001

Fiscal Studies

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OECD data are used to investigate public and private environmental expenditures and, although they are more complete and consistent than other datasets, they are still poor. This is important in the context of measuring the benefits of environmental protection, when little is really known about its actual costs. Despite these limitations, this study demonstrates that there has been no shift towards an increasing private sector burden relative to the public sector over time. The paper also finds little evidence to show that environmental expenditures negatively impact on economic growth, although there is inconsistency between the 'no effects' finding of the competitiveness literature and the 'negative effects' finding of most of the productivity literature. Finally, the elasticity of expenditure with respect to income is found to be 1.2, lower than would be expected if the 'environmental demand effect' is significant in explaining the downward slope of the environmental Kuznets curve.JEL classification: Q28.

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Public and private spending for environmental protection: a cross‐country policy analysis

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Palmer

2001

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“…Such calls are almost always predicated on the basis of economic efficiency (see, for example, Pearce and Brisson 1993). It is true by construction that 'balanced' or CB-based standards are statically optimal.…”

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“…There is, of course, some difficulty in interpreting what is meant by 'Not Entailing Excessive Costs'. Pearce and Brisson (1993) argue that it could mean either (i) that implementation of the said technology does not prevent the regulated firm from making some reasonable rate of return (the so-called 'corporate-burden approach') or (ii) that the costs of implementation are warranted by the marginal environmental benefits obtained (the 'cost-benefit' approach). They go on to note that: '(w)hat little legal opinion there is on BATNEEC suggests that the cost-benefit approach is the more likely to be applied by the courts' and that '... it is also likely that regulators will be more comfortable with such a cost-benefit interpretation' (Pearce and Brisson 1993: 39).…”

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Regulatory ‘balancing’ and the efficiency of green R&D

Heyes

Liston‐Heyes

1997

Environ Resource Econ

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We identify and analyse several dynamic implications of setting environmental standards such as to ‘balance’ marginal costs and benefits. The adoption of such a regulatory approach is shown to effect (i) the speed of improvement of abatement technologies; (ii) the ‘direction’ (in a sense to be defined) of that improvement; (iii) its source and the distribution of the rents from it; and (iv) the rate of development of defensive (averting) technologies. Existing views are thoroughly synthesised in the context of a simple diagrammatic model, several new results are derived and at least one conventional wisdom questioned. The message of the analysis for legislators and regulators is that cost-benefit balancing should be done with care. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997environmental regulation, cost-benefit analysis, technical change,

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“…Consideration is given to the best available technical solutions that already have been successfully tested out in practice, and whose cost is not unreasonable in proportion to the achievable result in terms of protecting people and the environment (Pearce and Brisson 1993).…”

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Can thermal soil remediation be sustainable? A case study of the environmental merit of the remediation of a site contaminated by a light non-aqueous phase liquid (LNAPL)

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Bouckenooghe²,

Breuseghem³

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Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

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Batneec: The Economics of Technology-Based Environmental Standards, With a Uk Case Illustration

Cited by 24 publications

References 7 publications

Public and private spending for environmental protection: a cross‐country policy analysis

Public and private spending for environmental protection: a cross‐country policy analysis

Regulatory ‘balancing’ and the efficiency of green R&D

Can thermal soil remediation be sustainable? A case study of the environmental merit of the remediation of a site contaminated by a light non-aqueous phase liquid (LNAPL)

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