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Using what you have learned about marketbased incentives, suggest a policy initiative that would discourage land disposal in the United States.
What policies have been proposed or implemented to address the problem you describe? Analyze these policies from an economic perspective.
Choose one of the risk management strategies and propose how it might be used to resolve this issue. Why has there been no movement to initiate such a proposal?
Evaluate the provision resulting from the Uruguay Round that requires that the least traderestrictive measures be used to achieve environmental goals.
Support your proposal by discussing two of its strong points. Realistically, why might opponents argue against your idea?
Find the equilibrium price and quantity before and after the tax is implemented. Who pays the majority of the tax, suppliers or demanders?
Critically compare and contrast the policy approaches of TSCA and FIFRA. In your view, which of these is more effective in preventing pollution? Explain.
Identify five distinctive features of the health economy. Examine each one separately, and describe other commodities or sectors that share those features.
Briefly describe how this undertaking might affect the market for the company's product, and use a supply and demand model to illustrate the potential changes.
Propose a different market-based instrument that would foster the use of more light green technologies domestically and internationally.
Extended Product Responsibility assumes that all participants in product cycle play. Identify specific role played by the average consumer in this effort.
Identify the economic incentives that motivate private firms to engage in pollution prevention activities.
Conduct a hypothetical life cycle assessment (LCA), pointing out at least two preventive initiatives that would reduce environmental risk.
Discuss the major advantages and disadvantages of an industrial ecosystem that you would consider in making your decision.
If you were responsible for setting the NAAQS for lead, what key determinants would you consider if the standard were established to meet the efficiency criteri
Find the present value of the system. Now compare this present value with the one calculated under the assumption of a 10 percent rate.
Evaluate the change in costs over the period in real terms, first in 2011 dollars and then in 2012 dollars. Are your answers the same? Explain why or why not.
Find the incremental cost of a statewide policy that would increase abatement from 5 to 10 percent, and illustrate graphically.
Find the incremental costs of a policy initiative that increases the phosphorus abatement level from its baseline of 30 percent to 45 percent.
Distinguish between the explicit and implicit costs of this proposal, and support your discussion with several specific examples of each.
You are in charge of assessing the incremental benefits. Which method would you choose to derive the estimation? Explain briefly.
Use a graph to model this system, and illustrate how the cost savings are achieved.
Formulate a hypothetical economic policy to motivate automobile manufacturers to advance the technology of cleaner motor vehicles.
Briefly summarize Portney's overall assessment of the 1990 CAAA, and discuss the major implications of these findings for society.
Briefly explain the significance of prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) areas to the setting of air quality standards.