Environmental Protection: Public or Private Choice

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1. Environmental policy making: an introduction.- A. Decision-Making.- 2. A spatial theoretic approach to environmental politics.- 3. Green legislative politics.- 4. Regulation or taxation.- 5. Decision making about the environment; the role of information.- B. Case-Studies.- 6. Transport policies and the environment: regulation and taxation.- 7. Road pricing: a logical failure.- 8. Dutch manure policy: the lack of economic instruments.- 9. Dutch manure policy: the role of information.- C. Institutions.- 10. The role of property rights in environmental protection.- 11. The ecological social contract.- 12. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all.- About the authors.- Author index.