Economy, Environment and Technology: A Socioeconomic Approach: A Socioeconomic Approach

by Burgenmeier,Beat

• ISBN13: 9781563244148
• ISBN10: 1563244144
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-09-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection of interdisciplinary and multimethodological essays in the socio-economics vein calls for a policy of unprecedented proportions to protect the environment. They are approaches to protecting the environment reducing the imbalance between policies based narrowly on economic and technological instruments, toward policies based on a broader and deeper understanding of the social fabric and institutions. The analyses transcend those values that are derived only with supply and demand in the marketplace. These socio-economic views on the environment develop in two main directions: One takes into account human behavior, institutions, and collective decision-making that underlie environmental protection policies. The second direction casts some light on the existing interface between the economy and the biosphere.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Introduction	p. 3
Estimating Nonuse Values Requires Interdisciplinary Research	p. 11
Understanding Environmental Problems: A Sociological Perspective	p. 27
Recycling Consumer Waste: A Behavioral Science Approach to Environmental Protection Policy	p. 51
New Approaches in Ecological Economics: Energy Analysis and the Socioeconomic Elements of Environmental Economics	p. 77
Economic-Ethical and Bioeconomic Elements of "Practical" Economics	p. 107
Sustainable Development and the Economic Growth Debate	p. 121
The Physical and Biological Environment - The Socioeconomy of Sustainable Development	p. 139
Nearly Uncontrollable Pollution of an Agrarian System: A Socioeconomic Case Study	p. 165
Environmental Policy: Beyond the Economic Dimension	p. 175
The Challenge of Economics to Political Modernity: Some Views on the Limits of Collective Action and Power	p. 191
Index	p. 209
Contributors	p. 217
About the Editor	p. 219
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