Assessing the Barriers to Greener Fiscal Measures and Ecological Tax Reform in the Transport Sector

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Author(s): David Browne (Trinity College, The University of Dublin, Ireland), Brian Caulfield (Trinity College, The University of Dublin, Ireland)and Margaret O’Mahony (Trinity College, The University of Dublin, Ireland)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 19
Source title: Sustainable Systems and Energy Management at the Regional Level: Comparative Approaches
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Marco Tortora (University of Florence, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-344-7.ch002

Keywords: Environment & Agriculture / Environmental Science and Technologies / Information Science Reference / Sustainable Development

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However, it is possible that achieving ETR through full internalisation of external costs could be contentious due to political concerns over the potental impact on lower socio-economic groups and rural communities as well as commercial concerns over the competitiveness of the freight sector and macroeconomic impacts.

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