Hi GEP-ers, Thanks to those who replied to my query on cross-national variation in levels of expenditures on environmental protection. I've abbreviated and copied the responses below:
There is a literature on regime-type and environmental protection. Rodger Payne published a mostly theoretical piece in J of Democracy back in 1995 and there has been a fair amount of empirical work since then. The empirical testing uses a variety of measures for environmental protection, including treaty ratification, pollution measures, etc. Some may use spending, but I don't recall any off-hand. … Running the danger to be totally off topic, here are just some scatty links to data sources on aspects of expenditures on environmental protection: Public R&S spending on the environment for EU countries can be found here: https://green-horizons.eu/tis/environmental-governance Environmental protection expenditure on waste management her: https://green-horizons.eu/tis/waste-and-recycling Government expenditure on renewable energy demo projects her: https://green-horizons.eu/tis/renewable-energy On the website there are also some other indicators your student may find interesting for building a model. What the website nicely demonstrates is the variety of different aspects of environmental protection and I would recommend to your student to disaggregate parts of it as sometimes specific expenditures may have very regionally specific explanations, for example mining activities. … Lyle SCRUGGS – Sustaining Abundance Steinburg and VanDeveer's Comparative Environmental Politics book for comparative politics grounded ideas about the many factors that probably interact with (or intervene in the relationships between) cost and performance. With thanks, hvdv On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:03 AM Hamish van der Ven < hamish.vander...@utoronto.ca> wrote: > Dear GEP-ers, > > > > I have a doctoral student who is interested in explaining cross-national > variation in levels of expenditures on environmental protection (broadly > construed). He is looking for literature that outlines or probes hypotheses > for why some countries might spend more than others. Any recommendations? > Please email me off-list and I will share the compiled results with the > listserve. > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Hamish > > -- > Hamish van der Ven > > Assistant Professor > > Department of Political Science and School of Environment > > McGill University > > hamishvanderven.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
