Open AccessLas principales aportaciones a la teoría de la regulación medioambiental. Los últimos cuarenta años
Author(s) -
Montserrat Viladrich Grau
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
economía agraría y recursos naturales/economía agraria y recursos naturales
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 2174-7350
pISSN - 1578-0732
DOI - 10.7201/earn.2004.08.03
Subject(s) - incentive , generalization , welfare economics , humanities , environmental policy , political science , regional science , geography , economics , environmental economics , philosophy , epistemology , microeconomics
In this article I present the main contributions to the theory of environmental regulation developed during the last forty years. I begin the analysis in the sixties and seventies reviewing the main articles of these years, focusing in the comparison of the properties of the instruments based on economic incentives and of the instruments based on quantities. Next I evaluate the policy developments of the eighties, centering my attention on the generalization of the systems of marketable permits. Finally, I analyze how in the nineties the main interest of environmental regulation is oriented towards the solution of global environmental problems.