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Green Budget Reform in Europe

Countries at the Forefront

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Kai Schlegelmilch

    1. Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Wuppertal, Germany

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  • the first book describing experiences with ecological taxes and subsidies in West-, Middle- and East-European countries - analysis of a budget (revenue, expenditure and guaranties of the government)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXXI
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  2. Green Budget Reform in European Countries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to the Green Budget Reform Seminar

      • Kai Schlegelmilch
      Pages 3-13

    3. Opportunities for Increased Use of Environmental Taxes and Charges in EU Member States and CEECs

      • Hans Bergman
      Pages 15-21

    4. Green Budget Reform: Macroeconomic Impacts and Impacts on Innovation

      • Michael Kohlhaas
      Pages 23-32

    5. Empirical Assessment of an Energy Tax Proposal for Austria

      • Angela Köppl
      Pages 33-40

    6. Cohesion Countries: Experience in Countries on the European Periphery

      • Sue Scott, Frank Convery
      Pages 41-50

    7. Green Tax Reform in Denmark

      • Jens Holger, Helbo Hansen
      Pages 51-66

    8. Green Tax Reforms: Some Experiences from Sweden

      • Runar Brännlund
      Pages 67-91

    9. Policies for a Better Environment and High Employment

      • Thorvald Moe
      Pages 93-107

    10. Report on the Concrete Steps of Green Budget/ Tax Reform in the Netherlands -Retrospective and Outlook

      • Anthony Zom
      Pages 109-119

    11. Ecological Tax Reform — What is Happening in Switzerland?

      • Rudolf Rechsteiner
      Pages 121-126

    12. Polish Experience with Environmental Fees, Fines and Taxes, and Simulations of Some Economic Effects of Elements of Green Tax Reform Using the Computable General Equilibrium Model

      • Grzegorz Peszko
      Pages 127-148

    13. Coordinating Environmental and Fiscal Policy in Hungary: Possibilities and Constraints

      • Zsuzsa Lehoczki
      Pages 149-163

    14. Proposed Modifications to the 1997 State Budget Bill of Hungary

      • Kai Schlegelmilch
      Pages 165-199

    15. Economic Instruments and Environmental Funds for Environmental Policy in Central and Eastern Europe

      • Jürg Klarer
      Pages 201-258

    16. Subsidies and the Environment: What Subsidies and Tax Incentives Affect Production Decisions to the Detriment of the Environment

      • Jan H. M. Pieters
      Pages 259-265

    17. Green Budget/Ecological Tax Reform Commissions

      • Kai Schlegelmilch
      Pages 267-274

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 271-289
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  4. Green Budget Reform in Slovenia Case Study

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291
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About this book

Budgets have a big influence on the economy and society. With many countries, about 50 percent of total expenditures and income pass through the budget via taxes, charges and expenditures. In recent years many countries, e. g. in the OECD and the EU, have tended to use this influence in an environmentally rational way. Tradi­ tional environmental policy has relied on command-and-control and cnd-olpipc technologies that have proven to be insufficient in coping with the challenge of glo­ bal change. Hence, many countries have started to investigate the environmental impacts of their budgets by looking at existing taxes and charges, as well as tax allowances and exemptions and other relevant regulations and expenditures -even to have a special impact on the environment. The implementation of those not meant such findings is now broadly discussed in these countries. This publication will contribute to the debate. It is a result of a wider project called Green Budget Reform -Prospects in Central and Eastern Europe. initiated by Vida Ogorelec Wagner, managing Director of Umanotera, The Sloven ian Founda­ tion for Sustainable Development, and then jointly developed. proposed to the EC and carried out in partnership with Kai Schlegelmich of the Wuppertal Institute in Germany. The project comprised an international seminar on Green Budget Reform in April 1997 at Lake Bled, Slovenia, and the Case Study of Sloveilla.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Wuppertal, Germany

    Kai Schlegelmilch

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Green Budget Reform in Europe

  • Book Subtitle: Countries at the Forefront

  • Editors: Kai Schlegelmilch

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58637-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-64718-8Due: 12 October 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-63676-9Published: 13 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-58637-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXI, 443

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Ecotoxicology

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