Creating Economic Incentives for Environmental Protection and Resource Management

2019 ◽  
pp. 255-282
Author(s):  
Steven C. Hackett
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Economic Incentives

scholarly journals Municipal Urban Waste Management—Challenges for Polish Cities in an Era of Circular Resource Management

Resources ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Agata Mesjasz-Lech
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Municipal Waste ◽  
City Management ◽  
Environmental Orientation ◽  
Material Cycles ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Urban Waste Management

Municipal authorities increasingly view environmental protection as one of the goals of city management. The pro-environmental orientation of cities can, therefore, foster the creation of new management methods and instruments and promote reorganization of determining material flows in a municipal system. Activities of this kind should result not only in the reduction of generated waste but also in the creation of closed material cycles. Considering the tasks of Polish local governments, municipalities should pay the most attention to municipal waste. Accordingly, the goal of this study was to identify the problem of mixed municipal waste in cities and assess the influence of investments into fixed assets for environmental protection in the scope of waste management on the quantity of mixed municipal waste in cities. This article also identifies activities for circular resource management that need to be realized by Polish municipalities. The analysis was performed using the panel model, dynamic indexes, and critical analysis of city documents. The conducted research revealed positive trends in cities with respect to the amount of waste collected non-selectively that is conducive to circular resource management. The fact that municipal waste quantity is on the increase should encourage urban authorities to promote pro-environmental waste management behaviors among city dwellers.

scholarly journals Perspectives for the Development of the Environmental Taxation System: Consolidation, Differentiation, Expansion of the Tax Base

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-69
Author(s):  
V. Ostrovetskyy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Environmental Taxation ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Tax Base ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Current Economic Situation ◽  
Market Relations

The current economic situation in Ukraine, which is exacerbated by several global issues, such as the political crisis in eastern Ukraine and the spread of COVID-19, requires continuous improvement and development of new environmental instruments to be developed based on balancing state and society as well as preserving the country's natural resource potential for future generations. The system of environmental protection instruments must ensure the efficient functioning of the economic system and not create an excessive burden. Economic instruments: taxes, licenses, quotas, fees, special permits, are gradually replacing the command-administrative methods of environmental management, the system of which was built based on special subsidies, the use of which justified itself in centralized management of the economy in Soviet times. However, in the conditions of the development of market relations, which are based on the principles of democracy, entrepreneurship, development of various forms of ownership, the system of subsidies proved to be ineffective. To replace it began to develop a system of economic incentives for environmental protection, the main elements of which are accessible to the object of use (license, permit), as well as a special fee, tax, the parameters of which are set depending on the scale of damage (pollution) in absolute values or as a percentage of the cost of production. Among the main tools for regulating the environmental aspects of industrial production, first of all, are those that regulate the supply and demand for goods (services), the production and sale of which harms consumers and the environment. Based on the analysis of the dynamics and structure of the main macroeconomic proportions, as well as methods of state regulation of market relations, the article emphasizes the need to adhere to the concept of "green" growth, including through the development and consolidation of environmental taxation. Among the areas of activity in this area, it is proposed to deepen the differentiation of environmental taxation parameters and expand the tax base (expansion of the list of goods, production (consumption) of which is subject to environmental taxation).

scholarly journals Book Reviews: Thinking About Cultural Resource Management: Essays From the Edge

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Cast
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Historic Preservation ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Federal Laws ◽  
National Environmental

The Guru of Section 106 has just compiled a book of essays that every CRM professional, archeologist, anthropologist, historic preservationist, environmentalist (have I covered all the pertinent “ists”?), and Native Americans concerned with preserving, protecting, and managing historic properties should read. There is even a nifty glossary of terms for those readers who may not be familiar with the compliance lingo that goes along with Section 106, the National Environmental Protection Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and the whole host of other federal laws related to historic preservation.

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