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    Examining the Impact of Regional Wildfires on Environmental Concern and Support for Carbon Tax- Empirical Findings from Sweden
    (2023-06-29) Hedin Stenvall, Sofie; Lundberg, Clara; University of Gothenburg/Graduate School; Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School
    Climate-driven changes in the severity of wildfires are predicted as greenhouse gas concentrations increase. Exposure to local wildfires may represent a source of information for individuals as they evaluate their environmental concerns and support for carbon taxation. Using survey data including expressed environmental concern and support for carbon tax together with regional data on wildfires, we examine the association between regional wildfires, environmental concern, and support for carbon taxation. Examining the period of 2014-2020, we find that wildfires significantly increase the probability that a respondent states the environment as a societal issue. For support for carbon tax, no significant association is found for 2014-2020, but the results suggest wildfires to be positively associated with increased support for carbon tax in the period 2018-2020. The findings contribute to the literature evaluating environmental concern and support for carbon tax by combining spatially disaggregated data on regional wildfires and individual characteristics. Characterizing environmental concern and support for carbon tax is crucial since they affect the policymaking related to reducing carbon emissions.
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    Styrmedel för uttjänta fritidsbåtar
    (2021-07-02) Bengtsson, Olivia; Hedin Stenvall, Sofie; University of Gothenburg/Department of Economics; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik
    Today there is approximately 940 000 leisure bots in Sweden and 85 000 of these are considered to have reached their end of life. The scrapping and recycling of end-of-life-leisure-boats is insufficient, and the risk of boats getting dumped is thereby increasing. End-of-life-leisure-boats left in marine areas may contribute to an increase of marine plastic pollution and hazardous substances such as propellant, oils and glycol risk to enter sensitive ecosystems trough leakage. To minimize the number of end-of-life-leisure-boats in Sweden the Swedish agency for water and marine management gave, in September 2018 the first of five founding’s to increase scrapping and recycling. At total, the founding’s financed scrapping and recycling of 1594 end-of-life-leisure-boats to a cost of approximately 12 million SEK. The foundlings are not considered to be a long-term solution and thereby other policy instruments needs to be studied. This thesis primarily examines the extended producer responsibility, along with a continued public founding, mandatory owner register and boat owner responsibility. The result of the thesis shows that an extended producer responsibility would transfer the cost to the polluters, namely producers and consumers, and thereby follow the Polluter Pays Principle and by that also the European and Swedish environmental law. The extended producer responsibility is the policy instrument, of the studied policies, which is considered to have the highest potential to reduce the problems regarding end-of-life-leisure-boats, but the result shows that an effective implementation requires multiple policy instruments.