Environmental Policy Instruments

Huppes, Gjalt; Simonis, Udo E.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9158-2_13

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“…Governments use MBIs to influence private behaviour of the individuals by incentivizing 'rational men' toward a desired behaviour or penalties for poor behaviour [10]. (One of the key assumptions of modern economics is that humans behave rationally following wealth maximization principles.)…”

Section: Market-based Instrumentsmentioning

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Understanding the acceptance of market-based instruments for the ecosystem service of water quality

Kerr¹,

Bjørnlund²

2011

Water and Society

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Non point source (NPS) contamination in southern Alberta's agricultural belt is a known issue. While point source contamination is clearly regulated and managed the mandate and responsibility for dealing with NPS water quality issues appears unclear and overlapping. Market-based instruments (MBIs) are being promoted in Alberta as a tool to help meet environmental management goals. This paper explores the role legitimacy, accountability and fit of MBIs based on two sets of semi-structured interviews, conducted to provide the background, context and perceptions around MBIs for water quality. One set of interviews focused on experts in the area of developing, implementing or analyzing MBIs for environmental objectives. The second set of interviews focused on local subject matter experts and knowledgeable stakeholders in the case study areas in southern Alberta.Initial results indicate that while MBIs could have an important role in delivering better water quality outcomes, the issues of fit, accountability and legitimacy need to be addressed in the MBI design process. Currently these are not adequately addressed in the Alberta context MBIs are relatively new tools for environmental management. Q methodology will be employed to further expose the values orientations and perspectives.

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Section: Market-based Instrumentsmentioning

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Understanding the acceptance of market-based instruments for the ecosystem service of water quality

Kerr¹,

Bjørnlund²

2011

Water and Society

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“…It is a systems view that seeks to optimise the total materials cycle from virgin material, to product and to ultimate disposal. Also Huppes and Simonis (2000) and Wrisberg et al (2002) emphasised the relevance of LCA as a key instrument for environmental policy-making in relation to technology assessment.…”

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“…Secondly, LCA offers a systematic approach to analyse the risks of innovative technologies along their entire life cycle, from design, building, maintenance, operation to decommissioning ( §4), as illustrated by examples of for instance Shatkin (2008) and Wardak et al (2008). Thirdly, LCA offers an analytical tool to quantify the environmental impact of emerging technologies ( §5), as illustrated by examples of for instance Clift, Nicholas and Azapagic (1998), Huppes and Simonis (2000) and Wilday et al (2011). The paper concludes with final remarks and further research within a project on integrated risk management, called Integrisk (Integrisk 2009), commissioned by the seventh framework programme of the European commission ( §6).…”

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Combining LCA and RA for the integrated risk management of emerging technologies

Breedveld

2013

Journal of Risk Research

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Emerging risks of innovative technologies, like for instance nanotechnology, require proactive assessments in order to guarantee that their future materials and products will not result in adverse effects on health, safety and the environment. The combination of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Risk Assessment (RA) offers a systematic approach to identify and assess potential impacts. LCA is a well-known analytical tool, standardised in ISO 14040-14044, to assess the environmental impact of the entire life-cycle of a product or service. Its strengths are the systematic approach to analyse all life-cycle stages of complex systems. Integrated risk management can benefit in various ways from LCA. Firstly, LCA offers a new dimension to the safety paradigm, exploring the principles and synergies between LCA and RA. Secondly, LCA offers a systematic approach to analyse the risks of innovative technologies along their entire life-cycle (from design, building, maintenance, operation to decommissioning). Thirdly, LCA offers an analytical tool to quantify the environmental impact of emerging technologies. In combination with RA, LCA can provide scientifically sound information for the early assessment of potential impacts on health, safety and the environment.

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“…A large number of different instruments and tools to compare decision alternatives have been developed and applied in different decision contexts relevant for third‐generation environmental decision making. Recent reviews of environmental policy and regulatory tools ( 7–11 ) and tools for environmental design and management ( 12–14 ) provide overviews of a large set of tools and attempt to characterize them with regard to specified interests.…”

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Tools for Comparative Analysis of Alternatives: Competing or Complementary Perspectives?

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A third generation of environmental policy making and risk management will increasingly impose environmental measures, which may give rise to analyzing countervailing risks. Therefore, a comprehensive analysis of all risks associated with the decision alternatives will aid decision-makers in prioritizing alternatives that effectively reduce both target and countervailing risks. Starting with the metaphor of the ripples caused by a stone that is thrown into a pond, we identify 10 types of ripples that symbolize, in our case, risks that deserve closer examination: direct, upstream, downstream, accidental risks, occupational risks, risks due to offsetting behavior, change in disposable income, macro-economic changes, depletion of natural resources, and risks to the manmade environment. Tools to analyze these risks were developed independently and recently have been applied to overlapping fields of application. This suggests that either the tools should be linked in a unified framework for comparative analysis or that the appropriate field of application for single tools should be better understood. The goals of this article are to create a better foundation for the understanding of the nature and coverage of available tools and to identify the remaining gaps. None of the tools is designed to deal with all 10 types of risk. Provided data suggest that, of the 10 types of identified risks, those associated with changes in disposable income may be particularly significant when decision alternatives differ with respect to their effects on disposable income. Finally, the present analysis was limited to analytical questions and did not capture the important role of the decision-making process itself.

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Environmental Policy Instruments

Cited by 14 publications

References 17 publications

Understanding the acceptance of market-based instruments for the ecosystem service of water quality

Understanding the acceptance of market-based instruments for the ecosystem service of water quality

Combining LCA and RA for the integrated risk management of emerging technologies

Tools for Comparative Analysis of Alternatives: Competing or Complementary Perspectives?

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