Environmental Policy and Societal Aims

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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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.

• development
• non-governmental organizations
• sustainability
• sustainable development
• transport
• ecotoxicology

• 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

Policies and ethics