On modeling incentive systems which utilize pollution charges for pollution abatement

This paper examines a scheme of economic incentives for environmental protection, in which spatially differentiated pollution taxes are in use in compensating the pollution abatement costs. A simple mathematical model is described which determines an incentive system that encourages polluters to reduce the discharges to an acceptable level of ambient quality standards in a cost-effective manner. It is shown that the vector of pollution charges has to be proportional to the marginal abatement cost vector, but is smaller than the latter in magnitude. It is demonstrated that a necessary incentive effect may be achieved even if the total pollution charge is much lower (about three times) than the total abatement costs. It is also estimated how this charge incentive system reconciles conflicting criteria of cost-effectiveness and of equity. These conclusions are verified by numerical experiments with real data.     

Experiments in Environmental Economics and Some Close Relatives

Abstract.  It is not only the great number of papers written on environment economics that make it worth dealing with this special branch of experimental research, but the environmental problem in all its facets seems to serve as a catalyst for identifying some methodological problems of the experimental method. For this reason, we will not only try to give an overview of recent experiments in environmental economics but also add some thoughts on the methodological implications of this work. We identify three direct connecting factors for the experimental method and environmental economics. First, social dilemmas are, in many cases, at the core of environmental problems. Experiments are able to test theoretical hypotheses for individual behavior in such social dilemma situations. The second connecting factor comes from the field of applied experimental work and can be characterized as the testbedding of institutional arrangements for the solution of environmental problems. The last direct application of experimental methods to environmental economics concerns the individual evaluation of environmental resources.     

Environmental uncertainty, supply chain relationship quality and performance

Environmental uncertainty is a fact of life in today's supply chains. In this paper we develop a model of environmental uncertainty, supply chain (SC) relationship quality and SC performance. We use data from the electronics sector in Ireland to test our model. Our results provide mixed support for the model, with the moderating role of both demand and supply uncertainty being supported, but technological uncertainty not supported. We reflect on these findings and suggest a research agenda based on our results.     

Environmental standards as barriers to trade

This paper examines the case of a good, polluting in consumption, whose pollutive content is restricted by a government with strong environmental policies. When foreign producers are unable to comply with the restrictive environmental standard of such a country, to which they wish to export, they often allege that those standards constitute illegal barriers to free trade. An example of such a good is gasoline, excessively pollutive formulations of which are prohibited from importation into the United States by the 1970 Clean Air Act. Rather than banning them, such imports should be taxed, along with the domestically produced substitute good, according to their respective pollutant contents. This would foster economic efficiency and should be more acceptable to foreign producers than the outright prohibition mandated by the Clean Air Act. The results of this paper reaffirm the argument in a previous article in this journal (Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 29 (1995) 187), though the countries’ roles in the two papers are reversed, that free trade and Pigouvian environmental policies increase international welfare.     

室内空气污染及防治对策

文章通过对室内空气污染物成因的分析,指出目前室内空气主要污染物为甲醛、苯系物、氨和氡。     

基于可持续发展的河流污染价值补偿机制研究

本文依据环境经济学物质平衡理论的概念框架,以污染者付费原则的环境经济政策为指导,研究上游河流水污染引发下游污染事件所造成的经济损失成本和事故技术等级关联系数,进而提出以公平和可持续的价值补偿标准为基础的经济补偿模型及其运作机制,为环境会计的相关计量提供参考。     

黄石市空气微生物动态变化分析

为了了解黄石市空气微生物动态变化特征,于2004年春、夏、秋、冬选择黄石市有代表性的工业区、居民区、商业交通混合区、长途客运站、市郊地区进行空气微生物监测分析.结果为黄石市不同区域空气菌落数从大到小顺序为：百货大楼十字路口〉步行街〉亚光新村〉新长途客运站〉华新水泥厂〉黄石理工学院主楼广场.空气微生物季节变化为秋季〉春季〉夏季〉冬季.黄石市空气微生物菌落数的高峰出现在商业交通混合区的秋季和春季.     

对我国生态环境保护的初步探讨

中国是世界上最大的发展中国家,由于现代工农业生产而造成了严重的环境污染,尤其是大量使用农用化学品所导致的生态失调与环境破坏,已严重威胁到人类生存环境及生活健康。今后社会发展必须大力提倡与推广无公害、无污染的清洁生产,全面实现生产的"零污染"与废物的"零排放"、保护环境与追求生态和谐的发展目标。     

建立绿色会计核算体系初探

目前我国正处在经济高速增长期。年GDP增长率9％-11％，同时又造成了严重的环境污染，土地大规模沙化，空气质量下降，长江、黄河等七大水系都遭受到了前所未有的污染。因此，对环境破坏进行成因分析，建立绿色会计体系，计价、计量自然环境。才能达到遏制环境污染的目的。     

环境监察专业人才培养规格和课程体系的研究与实践

我国环境监察专业人才的社会需求量大并且紧迫。目前我国高等教育在其专业人才培养上处于起步阶段，通过对环境监察专科人才培养规格和课程体系的设置进行研究和探索，可为普通高等院校在环境监察专业专科人才培养方面提供实践范例。