"Polluter pays" principle

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Date
2001
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Volume Title
Publisher
Makati City, Philippines: Philippine Institute for Development Studies
Abstract

The "polluter pays" principle aims at ensuring that the costs of environmental control fall in the first place on the polluters, thereby ensuring that market forces take these costs into account and that resources would be allocated accordingly in production and consumption.

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Keywords
Water policy, Environmental impacts, Environmental law, Economic impacts, Conservation incentives, Pollution control, Water pollution, Adoption of innovations, "Polluter pays" principle, Command-and-control principle, Pollution abatement, Farm/Enterprise Scale Governance
Citation
Philippine Institute for Development Studies, Economic Issue of the Day 2(3)