Social Costs of Energy: Present Status and Future Trends

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Introduction and some Conclusions from the Conference....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
The Social Costing Debate: Issues and Resolutions....Pages 7-37
Perspectives on Incorporation of Environmental Externalities....Pages 38-57
The Prospects for the Use of Environmental Benefit Assessment in the EC....Pages 58-67
Why Utilities Should Incorporate Externalities....Pages 68-72
Internalization of External Costs During the Crisis of Environmental Policy or as a Crisis for Economic Policy....Pages 73-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Estimating the Impacts, Damages and Benefits of Fuel Cycles: Insights from an Ongoing Study....Pages 81-97
Identification and Incorporation of External Costs Associated with Energy Use....Pages 98-115
Measuring the External Costs of Fuel Cycles in Developing Countries....Pages 116-132
Evaluation of the External Costs of a UK Coal Fired Power Station on Agricultural Crops....Pages 133-149
Economics of Nuclear Risks — A German Study....Pages 150-166
Environmental Impacts of Photovoltaics/Solar Energy....Pages 167-176
External Costs of Rational Use of Energy....Pages 177-193
Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options....Pages 194-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Evaluation of Instruments for the Incorporation of Externalities....Pages 215-227
Pollution Taxes — The Preferred Means of Incorporation of Environmental Externalities....Pages 228-247
A Prudent CO 2 Reduction Policy: Melding Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches....Pages 248-256
Consideration of Environmental Externality Costs in Utility Buy Back (PURCHASE) Rates....Pages 257-264
The Indispensability of Externality Valuation in Least-Cost Planning....Pages 265-278
State Externalities Policy and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Who Bears the Risks of Future Regulation?....Pages 279-286
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Incorporating Global Warming Externalities through Environmental Least Cost Planning: A Case Study of Western Europe....Pages 287-312
Observations on Extending the Set of Externalities to be Quantified....Pages 313-333
An Overview of Taxes and Trading as Environmental Control Policies....Pages 334-350
Utility Externalities and Emissions Trading: California is Developing a Better Way....Pages 351-369
Front Matter....Pages 371-371
From Social Costing to Sustainable Development: Beyond the Economic Paradigm....Pages 373-404
Beyond External Costs — A Simple Way to Achieve a Sustainable Energy Future, International and Intergenerational Equity by a Straightforward Reinvestment Surcharge Regime....Pages 405-425
Back Matter....Pages 427-431