Polluting Production - Environmentally Sound Alternatives
Polluting Production - Environmentally Sound Alternatives
Author(s): Tamás KocsisSubject(s): Micro-Economics, Energy and Environmental Studies
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: microeconomics; environmental economics; pollution; externalities; Kuznets curve; cleaner production; environmental policy;
Summary/Abstract: With the determination of principal parameters of producing and pollution abatement technologies, this paper quantifies abatement and external costs at the social optimum and analyses the dynamic relationship between technological development and the above-mentioned costs. With the partial analysis of parameters, the paper presents the impacts on the level of pollution and external costs of extensive and intensive environmental protection, market demand change and product fees, and not environmental-protection-oriented technological development. Parametrical cost calculation makes the drawing up of two useful rules of thumb possible in connection with the rate of government interventions. Also, the paradox of technological development aiming at intensive environmental protection will become apparent.
Journal: Society and Economy. In Central and Eastern Europe ǀ Journal of the Corvinus University of Budapest
- Issue Year: 24/2002
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 69-100
- Page Count: 32
- Language: English