Political Economy of the Environment – EPE
Political Economy of the Environment
Analysis of collective decision making in environment-related public policy in different contexts:<br />- with private protection againts environmental damages<br />- with socially responsible behavior from consummers and firms<br />- with several pollutants regulated by distinct regulators <br />- <br />- for water management in Brasil
Better understand how environmental policies are selected
Our objective is to analyse how public policy decisions linked to the environment emerge, focusing on five contexts: <br />1) the presence of private strategies to protect the environment: consumer purchases based on environmental impact and “virtuous” business strategies such as socially responsible investment and green labelling of products. <br />2) cases where citizens protect themselves against pollution: consumption of bottled or filtered water, payment for preventive and curative medical treatment for diseases… <br />3) the link to climate-change mitigation policies: carbon taxes, emissions trading schemes, renewable energy subsidies <br />4) the effect on water management: via an empirical study of a particular case of decentralised water management in Brazil<br />5) the case of several pollutants regulated by distinct administrations or juridictions<br />
Our project is at the frontier of public and environmental economics, requiring both skills in political economics methods (voting theory and collective decisions) and knowledge of theoretical and practical environmental policy. We use mainly analytical methods of modelling but the project also includes an empirical dimension.
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The EPE project analyzes the political economy of environmental policies. We examine how public policies related to the protection of the environment and natural resources emerge. Relying on a political economic approach, we analyze the collective choice of environmental policies in different contexts. First, we consider two private decisions related to environmental protection: firm’s corporate social responsibility and citizen’s protection expenses against the health impact of pollution. Second, we address the issue of the dynamic of climate change mitigation policies. Lastly, we focus on the decentralization of water management policies in Brazil.
Project coordination
Stefan AMBEC (Laboratoire d'Economie des Ressources Naturelles)
The author of this summary is the project coordinator, who is responsible for the content of this summary. The ANR declines any responsibility as for its contents.
Partnership
LERNA Laboratoire d'Economie des Ressources Naturelles
Help of the ANR 50,000 euros
Beginning and duration of the scientific project:
December 2012
- 36 Months
