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Outline a plan that will assess the effectiveness of the market structure for the company's operations.
What are the pros and cons, therefore, of using sustainability as a criterion for evaluating environmental policies?
What is the relationship between economic growth, population growth, and environmental quality in developing countries?
Discuss climate change mitigation options, how does race-tothe-bottom relate to establishing CO2 emissions or GHG reductions among countries?
How might globalization and the growth of multinational corporations in the envirotech industry be a positive force for environmental protection?
Which of the many aspects of globalization do you think will have the greatest long-run impact on environmental quality around the world?
Under what conditions might Country A be justified in putting a tariff on the imported item?
When CFCs were first introduced 50 years ago, their benefits were obvious. How do we guard ourselves against unforeseen long-run effects such as this?
What is free-riding in the context of international agreements and what might be some ways of overcoming it?
We talked about side payments given to countries to lower the costs to them of joining international agreements. What types of side payments might be effective?
Rather than placing a tax on fuels or the carbon content of fuels, taxes might be put on fuel-using items. Which type of tax would be more efficient?
Discuss how fiscal and monetary policy can move those numbers to equilibrium as the governor of the SARB?
Identify any dominated strategies in this game, or explain why there are none. What are the pure-strategy Nash equilibria to this game?
Estimate the demand curve from the data provided. Use regression analysis to estimate quantity demanded as a function of the price.
How might you design a transferable discharge permit system for solid waste? For phasing out of use a certain type of plastic?
It is sometimes suggested that the most equitable way to resolve issues in international trade. What are the pros and cons of this from an economic standpoint?
If emission standards are ruled out because of, for example, the impossibility of measuring emission. What alternative types of standards might be used instead?
Environmental protection programs are frequently designed to require all polluters to cut. What are the perverse incentives built into this type of program?
Do you think this would lead to a reduction in the total quantity of solid waste disposed of in the community? If they were published monthly?
Explain how this technology could have a beneficial impact in the short run but a less beneficial impact in the long run.
How about the program to ensure the quality of public water supply systems?
How might you interpret this position, using the concepts presented in this chapter?
How does this complicate the job of estimating the total social costs of pollution-control regulations?
Many countries are adopting a wait-and-see strategy toward CO2 emissions and atmospheric warming. What would a rational wait-and-see strategy look like?
Investigate the rules for recycling and solid waste disposal for a local community. What are the incentives that increase the rate of reuse (r)?