The Role of an Area-oriented Approach in Achieving Environmental Policy Integration in the Netherlands, and its Applicability in Bulgaria

Simeonova, Velislava; Valk, A.J.J. van der

doi:10.1080/09654313.2010.492579

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“…To estimate Equation (3) the following reduced form is used, transforming environmental taxation into logarithms: (4) where the countries are indexed by i and time by t. ET is the environmental tax per capita, yi is the average real per capita GDP, gi is the average real per capita GDP growth and RoLi is the average of the degree of the rule of law, all measured over the sampled period. Additional explicative variables are defined by matrix Zit.…”

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“…This theory, therefore, implies compatibility between economic growth and a clean environment that can be only achieved through application of effective environmental policies. The introduction and application of these policies, in turn, depend to a great extent on the stringency of the institutional context and the quality of institutions that has been proven to strongly affect the functioning of environmental policies [2][3][4].…”

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Is There Any Evidence on the Existence of an Environmental Taxation Kuznets Curve? The Case of European Countries under Their Rule of Law Enforcement

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Abstract:The paper gives new insights into the environmental taxation policy, demonstrating the existence of an inverse U-shaped relationship between environmental taxation and income in European countries. Our findings reveal this relationship to be influenced by enforcement of the rule of law, which contributes to shifting the turning point on the curve to lower income levels. We show that former transition economies have not reached the turning point due to weak institutions. To achieve the goal of sustainable development, the European Environment Agency's Environmental Taxation Reform, proposing to shift taxation from "goods" to "bads", should be accompanied by effective enforcement or the rule of law. The heterogeneity found between market-based and former transition European countries demonstrates the existence of problems at the EU-level in the coordination of environmental policies and enforcing the rule of law. In addition, the analysis of the determinants of environmental taxation points to the importance of factors related to consumption and production, governance, environmental quality, oil price shocks and the shift of environmental policy in European countries.

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“…Rather, one should make optimal use of policies that may reduce the source of this quality loss. In fact, this is a process requirement in the Dutch compensation approach (Glasbergen, 2005;Korthals Altes & Tambach, 2008;Simeonova & Van der Valk, 2010). Therefore, as a rule, reduction at the source must be exhaustively attempted, before taking recourse to compensation.…”

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On the Necessity of an Integrated, Participative and Adaptive Approach to Sustainable Urban Environmental Quality Planning

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On the necessity of an integrated, participative and adaptive approach to urban environmental quality in planning sustainable cities Key words: urban environmental quality; urban quality of life; sustainable urban development; trade-offs; quality dimensions. Rien van Stigt, Peter Driessen and Tejo Spit AbstractBased on a review of recent literature, this paper addresses the question of how urban planners can steer urban environmental quality, given the fact that it is multidimensional in character, is assessed largely in subjective terms and varies across time. A novel perspective of urban environmental quality is proposed, exploring three questions that are at the core of planning and designing cities: 'quality of what?', 'quality for whom?' and 'quality at what time?' The dilemmas that urban planners face in answering these questions are illustrated using secondary material. The three questions provide a framework that offers urban planners perspectives for action in finding their way out of the dilemmas identified. Rather than further detailing the exact nature of urban quality, this novel perspective calls for an approach to urban planning that is integrated, participative and adaptive.

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“…Numerous studies confirm the importance of the environmental taxes for pollution reduction [7][8][9]. The use of environmental taxation is found to produce not only environmental, but also economic benefits such as economic growth or higher employment [10][11][12].…”

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Environmental Tax Policy in Romania in the Context of the EU: Double Dividend Theory

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Abstract:In the last decade, environment protection gained much more significance in designing the economic policies in the European Union (EU) countries. There are many economic and policy differences between the European countries, despite of the harmonization process inside the EU area. The path of implementation of the environmental tax reforms in the EU countries differs greatly from one country to another and the effects of such taxation in the economic and environmental areas are manifold. The authors of this paper have agreed to undertake the task of testing the double dividend hypothesis of the environmental taxation in Romania (an energy-intensive country) versus the EU area as a whole, using Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) techniques and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimations. Our findings show that this hypothesis is validated neither in Romania (in the economic growth area) nor in the EU area as a whole (in the unemployment area). Therefore, Romania cannot increase the level of the environmental tax for supporting economic growth, but it can grant environmental subsidies for decreasing the emissions and supporting the economic growth. This could be achieved by expanding the tax labor base and by collecting higher budgetary revenues to sustain such environmental subsidies. As far as the EU area is concerned, it is a necessary measure to continue the descending trend for the labor taxation to achieve the goal of improving the employment rate.

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The Role of an Area-oriented Approach in Achieving Environmental Policy Integration in the Netherlands, and its Applicability in Bulgaria

Cited by 12 publications

References 13 publications

Is There Any Evidence on the Existence of an Environmental Taxation Kuznets Curve? The Case of European Countries under Their Rule of Law Enforcement

Is There Any Evidence on the Existence of an Environmental Taxation Kuznets Curve? The Case of European Countries under Their Rule of Law Enforcement

On the Necessity of an Integrated, Participative and Adaptive Approach to Sustainable Urban Environmental Quality Planning

Environmental Tax Policy in Romania in the Context of the EU: Double Dividend Theory

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