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This book contains a collection of papers on economicincentives and environmental policies which result from the authors'joint research work in the program `Environment, Science and Society',conducted under the auspices of the European Science Foundation, withwhose cooperation the book has been published. The work concentrates on the scientific and methodological aspects ofthe development, implementation and evaluation of economic instrumentsat a national level. The research is both theoretical andempirical. - At a theoretical level attention isgiven to the dynamics of instrument choice in various political andeconomic contexts, and to the means for evaluating economicinstruments in terms of their effectiveness and efficiency.- Atan empirical level the research seeks to investigate the performanceof economic instruments in reality and to explore options for newapproaches on the interface between technology, economy and theenvironment. A subject index complements this first volume in the ESF`Environment, Science and Society' series. ... Read more