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Public acceptability of personal carbon trading and carbon tax

Bristow, Abigail L., Wardman, Mark, Zanni, Alberto M., Chintakayala, Phani K. (2010) Public acceptability of personal carbon trading and carbon tax. Ecological Economics, 69 (9). pp. 1824-1837. ISSN 0921-8009. (doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.04.021) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:86889)

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.04.021

Abstract

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges confronting the international community requiring action to achieve deep cuts in carbon emissions. The implementation of potentially uncomfortable but necessary policy measures is, though, critically dependent upon public acceptability. This paper reports a novel application of stated preference techniques to explore the influence of key design attributes on the acceptability of a personal carbon trading scheme in isolation and when compared to a carbon tax. Illustrative forecasts from the models developed indicate the importance of design attributes, especially the basis of the initial permit allocation for personal carbon trading and the use to which revenues are put for carbon tax. Results indicate that the “best” scheme designs could be acceptable to a majority of respondents.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.04.021
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Economics
Depositing User: Alberto Zanni
Date Deposited: 08 Mar 2021 17:39 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:27 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/86889 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)
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