The political economy of sustainable development : valuation, distribution, governance /: valuation, distribution, governance. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dirk Jacob Wolfson.
• Authors: Wolfson, Dirk Jacob
• Contents: 1. Introduction1.1. About this book1.2. Economic analysis and environmental policy: scope and limits 1.3. Cost-benefit analysis: a preview 1.4. Valuation, distribution and legitimacy1.5. Short cuts: cost-effectiveness, standards, multi-criteria and workable competition 1.6. Global economic development and ecological constraints 2. Valuation2.1. The ' 'Coase-solution ' ' and emissions trading2.2. Hedonic pricing, travel cost method and averting behaviour2.3. Stated preferences: contingent valuation and choice experiments 2.4. Co- valuation and externalities in production functions2.5. Persuasion2.6. Fiscal instruments for managing preference2.7. Innovation as externality on the supply side 2.8. Shadow prices or regulation?2.9. Combining results, and sensitivity analysis3. Distribution3.1. Optimal allocation and fairness in distribution 3.2. Fiscal solutions 3.3. Distributional weights3.4. Visions of justice 4. Governance4.1. Cost-benefit analysis revisited4.2. Interactive governance and information management 4.3. Situational contracting: implementation and empirical evidence4.4. Situational solutions in the valuation and distribution of environmental policy4.5. Summary and conclusions.
• Edition: 2015
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 338.927; Sustainable development -- Political aspects; Sustainable development -- Government policy; Supply and demand
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137552761; 9781137552754
• Related ISBNs: 9781137552747
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