Dietz, Simon 
ORCID: 0000-0001-5002-018X and Atkinson, Giles ORCID: 0000-0001-6736-3074
(2010)
The equity-efficiency trade-off in environmental policy: evidence from stated preferences.
Land Economics, 86 (3).
423 -443.
ISSN 0023-7639
Abstract
The design of environmental policy raises several equity issues, in particular the distribution of benefits and costs. At the same time, it has often been argued that there is a trade-off in environmental policy between equity and efficiency, which brings these issues firmly to the attention of environmental economics. In this paper we use a simple choice experiment to elicit individual preferences over equity-efficiency trade-offs in the context of two environmental problems, local air pollution and global climate change. We find that equity matters to people as much as efficiency does in the design and delivery of environmental policy.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://uwpress.wisc.edu/journals/journals/le.html |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System |
| Divisions: | Grantham Research Institute Geography & Environment |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| JEL classification: | Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q52 - Pollution Control Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects D - Microeconomics > D6 - Welfare Economics > D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Aug 2010 16:24 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2024 21:39 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/28847 |
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