Is the Environment a Luxury?

Preface 1. Introduction Part I: Income and environmental quality - Theory and Empirics 2. Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality 3. The Income Elasticity of the Impact of Climate Change Part II: The Distributional Incidence of Benefits of Environmental Improvements 4. Environmental Goods and the Distribution of Income Environment and Resource Economics 5. How Much do we Care about Air Quality Improvements? Evidence from Italian Households Part III: The Distributional Incidence of the Costs of Environmental Policies: the case of carbon/energy taxes 6. Household level studies on the distributional impact of carbon/energy taxes 7. Firm level studies on the distributional impact of carbon/energy taxes 8. Distributional Effects of Carbon Pricing in Ireland: a CGE approach Part IV: The Role of Fairness and Distributional Weights in Environmental Public goods Provision 9. Distributional Weights in Cost-Benefit Analysis. Should we forget about them? 10. Fair Air: Distributive Justice and Environmental Economics