Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth: Experience in OECD Countries

Paul O’Brien and Ann Vourc'h
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Paul Sherlock O'brien ()

No 293, OECD Economics Department Working Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: Clean air, clean water, fewer toxic emissions and less household waste are among the key environmental policy objectives that most OECD governments have been pursuing over the past three decades. This effort to take more account of the environmental costs of economic growth has been pursued in a variety of ways in different countries, and has evolved over time with policy instruments that may be technical standards, emission prohibition, tradable permits, taxes, voluntary agreements and many others. This paper surveys aspects of environmental and natural resource policy in a number of OECD countries paying particular attention to how countries succeed in conducting cost-effective and consistent policies in the environment and natural resource areas, not on environmental policy or outcomes per se. Four common themes emerged: attempts to design institutions or processes to achieve co-ordination across policies and sectors; certain sectors where policies make environmental objectives ... La qualité de l’air, la qualité de l’eau, le contrôle des émissions toxiques, la réduction des déchets ménagers et la conservation des ressources naturelles, ont été les principaux objectifs des politiques de l’environnement mises en œuvre dans la plupart de pays de l’OCDE pendant les trente dernières années. L’effort pour mieux prendre en compte les coûts environnementaux de la croissance économique a pris différentes formes dans différents pays, évoluant au cours du temps avec les instruments mis en œuvre tels que les normes techniques, l’interdiction d’émission, les permis échangeables, les taxes et les accords volontaires. Ce document étudie certains aspects de la politique de l’environnement et des ressources naturelles dans plusieurs pays de l’OCDE, et se concentre sur l’efficacité par rapport aux coûts et la cohérence des politiques dans le domaine de l’environnement et des ressources naturelles, et non sur la politique ou l'état de l’environnement en tant que tels. Quatre ...

Keywords: développement durable; environmental policy; natural resource policies; politique des ressources naturelles; politique environnementale; sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H23 Q00 Q20 Q28 Q40 Q48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-05-09
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