This glossary links each definition term to the most complete definition available in the course notes or other materials available via Web browser. A very short list of other glossaries.
- 2XCO2
- abatement
- adaptive management
- ambient charge
- ambient quality
- Aral Sea
- benefit--cost analysis
- benefit transfer method
- Bhopal, India
- cash-box equilibrium
- CEPA
- CERCLA
- Chernobyl, Ukraine
- citizen suits
- Coase's Theorem
- command and control
- contingent valuation method
- cost effectiveness
- cost of compliance
- cumulative emission
- DET
- diversion rate
- effluent
- effluent fee
- emissions
- emissions charge
- emissions tax
- environmental disasters
- environmental (or regulatory) taking
- ERC (Emission Reduction Credit)
- externality
- global emission
- "hot air"
- joint implementation
- latency
- leaching
- liability law
- local emission
- marketable discharge permit
- mass balance condition
- new-source bias
- no regrets strategy
- non-point source emission
- NPRI
- orphan site
- point source emission
- polluter pays principle (PPP)
- potential pareto improvement criterion
- regional emission
- residuals
- revealed preference methods
- smog
- stated preference methods
- sustainable development
- environmental (or regulatory) taking
- technology-based emissions standard
- threshold concept
- total maximum daily load (TDML)
- tradeable discharge permit
- transferable discharge permit
- waste reduction
Other Glossaries
- An excellent glossary is also available at RFF.
- glossary of emissions trading terms at Cantor Fitzgerald Environmental Brokerage
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Revised:
23:09 EST Mon Dec 02, 2002