文档介绍：Economic Growth and Environmental
Regulation
This volume assembles a group of eminent scholars to look at the problem of
growth and environment from the perspective of environmental regulation. The
questions addressed are: How does economic growth interact with regulation,
and what are the best approaches to regulation in use today?
The context for the volume is the current situation in China, where twenty
years of rapid growth have created a situation in which there are both demands
for environmental regulation and needs for choosing a future development path.
The advent of “A Macro-Environmental Strategy” for China presents an oppor-
tunity to ask how and why China should introduce regulation into its manage-
ment of its development. The volume includes contributions from leading
Chinese experts and established environmental economists from other countries,
including Timo Goeschl, Ben Groom and Andreas Kontoleon.
The volume looks at both the demand side of environmental regulation and
the supply side. The demand side of regulatory intervention examines how regu-
lation operates to supplement existing resource-allocation mechanisms, via
effective demand aggregation and implementation mechanisms. The supply side
of regulation examines how regulation operates to guide industrial growth down
particular pathways, in the pursuit of managed development. Both sides of envir-
onmental regulation involve the important issue of implementation and
enforcement.
This volume will be of most value to academics and scholars of environ-
mental economics, growth economics, the Chinese economy and policy-makers
of environmental regulations.
Tun Lin is a Research Fellow at the Asian Development Bank, focusing on
issues dealing with China’s growth and development. He took his PhD at Cam-
bridge University, focusing on issues dealing with environmental regulation and
enforcement. Timothy Swanson is Chair of Law and Economics at University