ECONOMICS OF AIR POLLUTION: A CASE OF THERMAL POWER GENERATION IN INDIA - Brossura

Kumar, Surender

Brossura

ISBN 10: 3639363132 ISBN 13: 9783639363135

Casa editrice: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2011

Riassunto

This study provides methods for empirical application of cost-benefit analysis in the projects of industrial pollution abatement. For the measurement of marginal abatement costs of pollution, output distance function is used as an analytical tool. This function requires only quantities of inputs and outputs, and not price information, this property makes it in environmental economics of immense value. Further, both stochastic and deterministic approaches are used for estimation of distance function. Benefits of abatement of pollution are measured with both the techniques - indirect and direct methods. In this study, thermal power sector is taken as in illustration. It is found that marginal abatement costs differ across the plants and there is negative association between environmental regulations and production efficiency. On the measurement of benefits of abatement, the difference between the direct and indirect methods proposed by economic theory is approved; people are willing to pay for environmental improvement in India. This study suggests the application of economic instruments in combination of CAC policy with caution.

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L'autore

Professor, Department of Business Economics University of Delhi, New Delhi, INDIA. Other authored books: Environmental and Economic Accounting for Industry, Oxford University Press: Delhi and Economics of Sustainable Development: The case of India, Springer: New York. Energy Prices and Induced Innovation, VDM Publishing House

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3639363132
• ISBN 13: 9783639363135
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 284
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