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Part 1 Environmentally damaging subsidies: can we tell a perversesubsidy if we see one?, Jan Pieters and Helen Mountford; the perversity ofgovernment subsidies for energy and water, Andre de Moot and Cees van Beers;promoting green budget reforms in the USA - the experience of Friends of theEarth, Gawain Kripke; green budget reform - case study of Slovenia, KaiSchlegelmilch and Tanja Markovic-Hribernik. Part 2 Taxes and charges:evaluating environmental taxes - recent experiences and proposals for thefuture, Stefan Speck and Paul Ekins; a review of environmentally damaging taxconcessions in Germany, Ursula Triebswetter; energy subsidies in Germany,Bettina Meyer; designing a land use tax, Kilian Bizer; Italian wastemanagement - comparing revenues from a general tax with a quantity relatedfee, Luciano Messori. Part 3 Subsidies for environmental purposes: theprovision of public goods - sending the right price signals, Erik Romstad;technical potential for CO2 emissions reductions and the scope for subsidies,Johan Albrecht; assessing subsidies in a second-best world - the case offorestry in Ireland, J. Peter Clinch. Part 4 European financial transfers:economic instruments for agri-environmental policy - what, when and whatfor?, Dominic Hogg; European Union agri-environmental policy - issus andpotentials, Frank J. Convery et al; subsidies to the farming sector - whoreceives direct payment in Ireland?, Susan Scott. Part 5 Public purchasingand administration: the case of public purchasing and green procurement atthe municipal level - the local and the European dimension, Arndt Mielischand Christoph Erdmenger; co-operative procurement - market transformation forenergy-efficient products, Katrin Ostertag and Carsten Dreher.