The role and application of environmental motivators as management tools in assessing environmental programs and policies

In the recent years, the continuous degradation, of the environment, has led to actions in order to change man's attitude towards environmental management. This resulted to the occupation of specialists of many scientific branches, on environmental matters. One of those branches is Environmental Economics which examines the various aspects of the relationship between the quality of the environment and man's financial behavior, individually or in a group, and how the financial system is affected by financial motivation that lead to the environment's improvement or degradation. The subject of this paper is the examination of all categories of financial environmental motivators and the methods of their application.