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Environmental Policy and Societal Aims

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Editors:
  1. Denis Requier-Desjardins

    1. Centre d’Economie et d’Ethique pour l’Environnement et le Développement, Université de Versailles-St. Quentin, France

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  2. Clive Spash

    1. Cambridge Research for the Environment, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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  3. Jan Straaten

    1. Department of Leisure Studies, Tilburg University, European Centre for Nature Conservation, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Studies in Ecological Economics (SEEC, volume 2)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Environmental Policy and Societal Aims

    • Denis Requier-Desjardins, Clive L. Spash, Jan van der Straaten
    Pages 1-11

  3. Industry Preferences for Instruments of Environmental Policy

    • Bouwe Dijkstra, Andries Nentjes
    Pages 13-34

  4. A Carbon/Energy Tax for Sustainable Development

    • Nadine Gouzée, Stéphane Willems
    Pages 35-61

  5. The Use of National Savings in Sustainability Analysis

    • Anders Christian Hansen
    Pages 63-101

  6. Sustainable Development and Ecological Modernisation: National Capacity for Rigorous Environmental Reform

    • Maurie J. Cohen
    Pages 103-128

  7. Localized Technical Change and the Efficient Control of Global Warming

    • Francesco Ferrante
    Pages 129-154

  8. Do Local Authorities Have a Part to Play in a Sustainable Development?

    • Signe Krarup
    Pages 155-167

  9. Sustainability and Civic Participation in Environmental Local Auditing. Contributions from the Experience in Catalonia

    • M. Àngels Alió, Xavier Kendall, Susana Laredo
    Pages 169-190

  10. Local Sustainable Development: How Can Equity Issues be Examined at the Local Level ?

    • Jane Corbett, Heather Voisey
    Pages 191-211

  11. Cultural Empowerment: (Re)building Locality and Facilitating Collective Vision as Interventions Toward Sustainable Rural Development

    • Nicholas Mack
    Pages 213-246

  12. Qualitative Growth-Employment : A Revisited Relationship

    • Laurent Grimal, Charilaos Kephaliacos
    Pages 247-278

  13. From the Expected to the Desired Future of Passenger Transport

    • Sytze A. Rienstra, Peter Nijkamp
    Pages 279-305

  14. Sustainable Development and Social Justice: The Tool of the Reduction in Income Inequalities

    • Jean-Marie Harribey
    Pages 307-330

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 331-335
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About this book

Sustainable development and environmental improvement are often regarded as intrinsically valuable a priori. As a result, the policies by which these goals are to be attained is often inadequately scrutinised. In this book, ecological economics addresses the institutional and policymaking aspects of environmental problems, thus covering a broad socioeconomic research agenda, in contradistinction to mainstream economic approaches. The approach advocated here is open to differing viewpoints on the same issue, sees conflict resolution as a social process, and accepts the need for research into political-economic issues, according a prominent position to the aims of society itself. An in-depth analysis of the policy process is followed in order to understand the pitfalls and barriers that will confront society on the road to sustainable development.
Readership: The broad approach advocated will appeal to all involved in environmental problems - decision makers, NGO members, and academic scholars.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre d’Economie et d’Ethique pour l’Environnement et le Développement, Université de Versailles-St. Quentin, France

    Denis Requier-Desjardins

  • Cambridge Research for the Environment, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Clive Spash

  • Department of Leisure Studies, Tilburg University, European Centre for Nature Conservation, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Jan Straaten

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Environmental Policy and Societal Aims

  • Editors: Denis Requier-Desjardins, Clive Spash, Jan Straaten

  • Series Title: Studies in Ecological Economics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4521-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6040-7Published: 31 December 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5928-2Published: 05 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4521-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1389-6954

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-9531

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 335

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Environmental Management, Ecotoxicology, Economic Policy

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