Decentralization and Environment: An Application to Water Policies

Garcia-Valiñas, Maria Angeles

doi:10.2139/ssrn.673463

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Decentralization and Environment: An Application to Water Policies

Maria Angeles Garcia-Valiñas

University of Oviedo

February 2005

FEEM Working Paper No. 31.05

Abstract:
By means of a two-jurisdictional model, this paper analyses the optimal division of environmental policymaking functions among the different government levels, identifying the most appropriate level of decentralization in each case. The paper focuses on water resources policies, with an application to Spanish regions during the 1996-2001 period. The estimation of an environmental quality-consumption transformation function allows the implementation of a simulation to find the most efficient policies in the context of water resources.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 31

Keywords: Fiscal federalism, Environmental policies, Water resources

JEL Classification: H77, Q25, Q28

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Date posted: March 7, 2005

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Garcia-Valiñas, Maria Angeles , Decentralization and Environment: An Application to Water Policies (February 2005). FEEM Working Paper No. 31.05. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=673463 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.673463

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