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Book Synopsis Evolutionary Economics and Environmental Policy by : Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh
Download or read book Evolutionary Economics and Environmental Policy written by Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an evolutionary economics perspective on energy and innovation policies in the wider context of the transition to sustainable development. This work also includes an analysis of the environmental policy implications of evolutionary economics; and a critical examination of Dutch environmental and innovation policies and policy documents.
Book Synopsis The Evolving Relationship between Economy and Environment by : Kazuhiro Okuma
Download or read book The Evolving Relationship between Economy and Environment written by Kazuhiro Okuma and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds new light on the relationship between economy and the environment by approaching the issue from evolutionary and institutional economics. Building a framework of theory and empirical analysis, it provides an in-depth perspective on how economic growth and environmental policy interact and historically evolve. Orthodox environmental economics usually understands environmental issues under the rules of market economy, while environmental sciences subordinate economy to physical constraints of the environment. Instead of these hierarchical visions, this book recognizes economy and the environment as co-evolving systems. The theoretical framework is elaborated based on the régulation and post-Keynesian theories combined. An idea of three-dimensional factors—capital, labor, and the environment—leads to conceptual and mathematical models, which will be applicable to wider analyses. Using this framework, Japanese history is analyzed as a typical example of environmental policy development. Historical transformations of environmental policies and growth regimes are explained using indices and econometric analysis. Experiences of strict regulations with positive economic impacts are also identified. These works lead to some interesting implications, which include mechanisms, the possibility, and conditions of "green growth''. This book proposes a new approach by bridging the gap between evolutionary–institutional economics and environmental economics, which should be stimulating to them both and possibly open the door for a new research avenue.
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Book Synopsis Creating a Sustainable Economy by : Gerardo Marletto
Download or read book Creating a Sustainable Economy written by Gerardo Marletto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed for those scholars, students, policy-makers – or just curious readers– who are looking for heterodox thinking on the issue of environmental economics and policy. Contributions to this book draw on multiple streams of institutional and evolutionary economics and help build an approach to environmental policy that radically diverges from mainstream prescriptions. No 'silver bullet' solutions emerge from the analyses. Even market-based tools – such as green taxes or tradable pollution permits – are bound to fail if they are not incorporated into an integrated, multi-dimensional and multi-actor policy for structural change.
Book Synopsis Coevolutionary Economics: The Economy, Society and the Environment by : John Gowdy
Download or read book Coevolutionary Economics: The Economy, Society and the Environment written by John Gowdy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this volume is the human economy and its coevolutionary relationship with the natural world. This relationship is examined in three broad types of societies; hunter--gatherers, agriculturalists, and modern market economies. A growing body of scientific evidence has made it clear that the current human impact on the environment is far above the level that can be maintained without causing profound changes in the biophysical world to which we belong. The new fields of ecological economics and evolutionary economics can help us understand the relationship between the economy, society and the environment and may help us to formulate effective policies to manage these changes.
Book Synopsis Environmental policy and modelling in evolutionary economics by : Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP)
Download or read book Environmental policy and modelling in evolutionary economics written by Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ecological Economics by : Peter Soderbaum
Download or read book Ecological Economics written by Peter Soderbaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecological economics seeks to socially construct a political economics which will deal successfully with environmental problems and make the individual more visible in economic analysis. The author describes the principles, strategies and instruments of social change for key players - governmental agencies, business corporations, environmental and religious organizations and universities - and underlines their responsibilities in the market economy. Peter Soderbaum emphasizes the need to articulate ideologies, worldviews, ethics and related scientific perspectives as part of economics, and the importance of pluralism and democratic decision making. His account of the theories and means that will brings us closer to a sustainable society consider tools such as environmental impact assessment (EIA) and describes success indicators such as environmental labelling and environmental management systems (EMS). It highlights strategies and policies that facilitate social change and sets out future agendas for the individual actors in political economics.
Book Synopsis Evolution, Time, Production and the Environment by : Malte Faber
Download or read book Evolution, Time, Production and the Environment written by Malte Faber and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-run interactions between the economy and the natural environment are studied from all points of view. First, the aims of this overview are illustrated in Part I. Part II then explores and develops the concept of evolution, in particular distinguishing between evolution which does not involve the emergence of novelty, and evolution where novelty does occur. In Part III three types of time irreversibility are developed, and these concepts are used to show how time has been treated in the natural sciences, also typifying various schools of economic thought. Part IV is concerned with the economic modelling of these concepts. It extends and adapts neo-Austrian capital theory to provide a basis for the modelling of long-run economy-environment interactions. A heuristic simulation model is described, and its simulation results discussed. Part V draws some lessons from the earlier discussion and analysis. It also stresses the role and the importance of interdisciplinary work for the understanding of relationships between economic activity and the natural environment.
Book Synopsis Political Economy of the Environment by : Simon Dietz
Download or read book Political Economy of the Environment written by Simon Dietz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the culmination of several years work by a group of academics, policy-makers and other professionals looking to understand how alternative economic thinking – and indeed thinking from quite different social-scientific disciplines – could enhance the mainstream economic approach to environmental and natural-resource problems. Of the editors, Dietz comes from the mainstream economics tradition, while Michie and Oughton draw explicitly on institutional and evolutionary economics. The various authors represent a range of disciplinary backgrounds and approaches. This book draws on the strengths of each and all of these approaches to analyse environmental issues and what can be done to tackle these through corporate and public policy. The book argues that the need for an inter-disciplinary approach. Two themes which emerge repeatedly throughout the book are the need for an interdisciplinary theory of technological change, and the need for a similarly interdisciplinary approach to the study of human behaviour and how it influences both production and consumption choices. The two themes are of course related. Resolving environmental questions requires an understanding of their nature, of their causes and, to the extent that they are anthropogenic, of how to change human behaviour. These fundamental issues are the focus of the four chapters that form Part 1 of this volume. The remainder of the volume develops them in more detail. .
Book Synopsis The Dynamics of Environmental and Economic Systems by : Valeria Costantini
Download or read book The Dynamics of Environmental and Economic Systems written by Valeria Costantini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploiting econometric techniques aimed at dealing with the dynamics of economic systems and the heterogeneity of agents performances, the volume integrates innovation-based reasoning with ex-post analyses, and presents ex-ante analyses able to evaluate the role of climate change policies by using computable general equilibrium models such as the Global Trade Analysis Project for Energy (GTAP-E). The authors merge and use a range of datasets, including OECD-PATSTAT and STAN, to test novel techniques informed by evolutionary economic theories and the Porter hypothesis. The immediate relevance and applicability of the models will strengthen the hand of policy analysts for whom the dynamic efficiency of environmental policy is a new, high-profile evaluation criterion.
Book Synopsis Scarcity and Growth Revisited by : R. David Professor Simpson
Download or read book Scarcity and Growth Revisited written by R. David Professor Simpson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, a group of distinguished international scholars provides a fresh investigation of the most fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. In Scarcity and Growth (RFF, 1963) and Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (RFF, 1979), researchers considered the long-term implications of resource scarcity for economic growth and human well-being. Scarcity and Growth Revisited examines these implications with 25 years of new learning and experience. It finds that concerns about resource scarcity have changed in essential ways. In contrast with the earlier preoccupation with the adequacy of fuel, mineral, and agricultural resources and the efficiency by which they are allocated, the greatest concern today is about the Earth‘s limited capacity to handle the environmental consequences of resource extraction and use. Opinion among scholars is divided on the ability of technological innovation to ameliorate this 'new scarcity.' However, even the book‘s more optimistic authors agree that the problems will not be successfully overcome without significant advances in the legal, financial, and other social institutions that protect the environment and support technical innovation. Scarcity and Growth Revisited incorporates expert perspectives from the physical and life sciences, as well as economics. It includes issues confronting the developing world as well as industrialized societies. The book begins with a review of the debate about scarcity and economic growth and a review of current assessments of natural resource availability and consumption. The twelve chapters that follow provide an accessible, lively, and authoritative update to an enduring-but changing-debate.
Book Synopsis New Perspectives for Environmental Policies Through Behavioral Economics by : Frank Beckenbach
Download or read book New Perspectives for Environmental Policies Through Behavioral Economics written by Frank Beckenbach and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents essential insights on environmental policy derived from behavioral economics. The authors demonstrate the potential of behavioral economics to drive environmental protection and to generate concrete proposals for the efficient design of policy instruments. Moreover, detailed recommendations on how to use “nudges” and related instruments to move industry and society toward a sustainable course are presented. This book addresses the needs of environmental economists, behavioral economists and environmental policymakers, as well as all readers interested in the intersection between behavioral economics and environmental policy.
Book Synopsis Economic Progress and Environmental Concerns by : Herbert Giersch
Download or read book Economic Progress and Environmental Concerns written by Herbert Giersch and published by . This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental theory and policy are becoming central issuesin economics as in other fields of science. This volumefocuses on selected aspects of environmental economics.The four papers of the first part deal with more generalaspects. They discuss the environmental limits to growth(Wilfred Beckerman), ecological concerns in a marketeconomy (Johannes Heister and Friedrich Schneider),philosophical aspects of intergenerational justice (JoannaPasek) and evolutionary economics as an approach toenvironmental problems (Georg Erdman). The three papers ofthe second part deal with policy instruments. They discussthe designing of markets for CO2 emissions and otherpollutants (Johannes Heister and Peter Michaelis), pollutioncharges as a source of public revenues (Wallace E. Oates)and the role of economic incentives for resourcemanagementin developing countries (Edward B. Barbier). The two papersof the third part deal with trade issues. They discuss theimpactof domestic environmental policy on internationaltrade (James A. Tobey) andthe economics of trade inendangered species (Joanne C. Burgess). The two papers ofthe final part deal with the global dimension. They discusstropical deforestation (Torsten Amelung) and the questionhow much we should invest in preserving our current climate(William D. Nordhaus). The contributors includeinternationally renowned scholars.
Book Synopsis The Economics of Climate Change and the Change of Climate in Economics by : Kevin Maréchal
Download or read book The Economics of Climate Change and the Change of Climate in Economics written by Kevin Maréchal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is without question the single most important issue the world faces over the next hundred years. The most recent scientific data have led to the conclusion that the globally averaged net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming and that continued greenhouse gas emissions at or above current rates would cause this process to continue to the severe detriment of our environment. This unequivocal link between climate change and human activity requires an urgent, world-wide shift towards a low carbon economy and coordinated policies and measures to manage this transition. The starting point and core idea of this book is the long-held observation that the threat of climate change calls for a change of climate in economics. Inherent characteristics of the climate problem including complexity, irreversibility and deep uncertainty challenge core economic assumptions and mainstream economic theory appears inappropriately equipped to deal with this crucial issue. Kevin Maréchal shows how themes and approaches from evolutionary and ecological economics can be united to provide a theoretical framework that is better suited to tackle the problem.
Book Synopsis Distorted Time Preferences and Structural Change in the Energy Industry by : Christoph Heinzel
Download or read book Distorted Time Preferences and Structural Change in the Energy Industry written by Christoph Heinzel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study is a slightly revised version of my PhD thesis which was accepted at the Economics Department of Dresden University of Technology in July 2008. It has a long and a short history. For it began, as suggested theme, as a fundamental evaluation of evolutionary economics for ecological economics, asking, especially, for what the two ?elds actually constitutes and, eventually, relates. In several years of unfruitful dwelling, however, neither of these two young, non-mainstream ?elds proved as constituted at a fundamental level as yet. Rather, ecological economics, founded at the end of the 1980s as an attempt to combine social and natural s- ence approaches(in particular economics and ecology) to study especially long-run environmental problems in an encompassing manner, has mainly developed into an interdisciplinary research forum on environmental-economicissues. Particularly uni?edbycertainnormativestances sharedwithinits community,it constitutes,well understood, a new discpline of its own right, distinct from economics, with its own scienti?c standards, questions, methodologies and institutions (Baumgartner ̈ and Becker 2005). Modern evolutionaryeconomicson the other hand has been a quarter of a century after its inception with Nelson and Winter (1982) still a mainly h- erogeneousendeavor, linked by a (rather amorphous) common interest in economic “evolution” and a critical stance towards neoclassical mainstream economics, with a certain strength in applied studies on industrial dynamics (Heinzel 2004, 2006).
Book Synopsis Complex Evolutionary Dynamics in Urban-Regional and Ecologic-Economic Systems by : J. Barkley Rosser
Download or read book Complex Evolutionary Dynamics in Urban-Regional and Ecologic-Economic Systems written by J. Barkley Rosser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the middle chapters from the first edition of J. Barkley Rosser's seminal work, From Catastrophe to Chaos, this book presents an unusual perspective on economics and economic analysis. Current economic theory largely depends upon assuming that the world is fundamentally continuous. However, an increasing amount of economic research has been done using approaches that allow for discontinuities such as catastrophe theory, chaos theory, synergetics, and fractal geometry. The spread of such approaches across a variety of disciplines of thought has constituted a virtual intellectual revolution in recent years. This book reviews the applications of these approaches in various subdisciplines of economics and draws upon past economic thinkers to develop an integrated view of economics as a whole from the perspective of inherent discontinuity.
Book Synopsis Ecological Economics by : Malte Michael Faber
Download or read book Ecological Economics written by Malte Michael Faber and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to ecological economics, an emerging discipline combining economics, natural science, and philosophy in the study of the interaction between humans and the natural world. The nine contributors collate their individual knowledge in these traditionally isolated fields producing essays that speak to the roles of science and ethics, evolution in biology, physics, and economics, the relationship between a philosophical experience and an environmental reality, and test cases in linking ecology and economy in the chemical industry. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
