Greening the Budget: Budgetary Policies for Environmental Improvement Book

	List of boxes
	List of figures
	List of tables
	List of contributors
	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction
Pt. I	Environmentally Damaging Subsidies
1	Can we tell a perverse subsidy if we see one?	3
2	The perversity of government subsidies for energy and water	24
3	Promoting green budget reforms in the USA: the experience of Friends of the Earth	45
4	Green budget reform: case study of Slovenia	62
Pt. II	Taxes and Charges
5	Evaluating environmental taxes: recent experiences and proposals for the future	87
6	A review of environmentally damaging tax concessions in Germany	107
7	Energy subsidies in Germany	122
8	Designing a land-use tax	145
9	Italian waste management: comparing revenues from a general tax with a quantity-related fee	162
Pt. III	Subsidies for Environmental Purposes
10	The provision of public goods - sending the right price signals	183
11	Technical potential for CO[subscript 2] emissions reductions and the scope for subsidies	195
12	Assessing subsidies in a second-best world: the case of forestry in Ireland	213
Pt. IV	European Financial Transfers
13	Economic instruments for agri-environmental policy: what, when, and what for?	227
14	European Union agri-environmental policy: issues and potentials	248
15	Subsidies to the farming sector: who receives direct payments in Ireland?	275
Pt. V	Public Purchasing and Administration
16	The case of public purchasing and green procurement at the municipal level: the local and the European dimension	297
17	Cooperative procurement: market transformation for energy-efficient products	314
	Index	333