Towards a sustainable economy :the application of ecological premises to long-term planning in Norway /
Hansen, Stein.
Towards a sustainable economy : the application of ecological premises to long-term planning in Norway /
Stein Hansen, Pål Føyn Jespersen, and Ingeborg Rasmussen.
- x,331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-317) and index.
Background and Nature of the 'Project for a Sustainable Economy' -- The World is Not What it Used to Be -- Towards an Operationalisation of Sustainability -- Will 'Green GNP' Provide Better Resource Management? -- Sustainability from an Economic Perspective -- Operationalisation of Sustainable Development: Economic Principles for Resource Management -- Compensatory Investment -- Environmental Valuation as a Basis for Environmental and Resource Management -- Opportunities for-and Obstacles to-Public Action -- The Premises for Ecologically Sustainable Development -- From Premises to Parameters -- Questions Calling for More Detailed Sector Analyses -- Indicators Which Cannot be Handled by the Macro-models -- Green Policies and Employment Incentives: Can More Stringent Environmental Demands Lead to 'Double Dividends'? -- The Environmental Impact of Deregulated Agriculture -- Transport -- The Impact of More Stringent Environmental Demands on Resource-intensive industry -- Norway in 2030-Can the Economy Survive with 'Green' Policies? -- What Determines Economic Development in Norway? -- The Analysis Framework of the Alternative Scenarios -- Comparison of Government Projections with Environmentally Adjusted Projections -- Additional Future Perspectives with Complementary Analyses -- The Presumed Impact of CO[subscript 2] Taxation on Various Sectors -- Agriculture, the Environment and Employment -- Possible Consequences for the Transport Sector of Increased CO[subscript 2] Taxation -- More Efficient Taxation from Environmental Policy.
The book recounts in detail the structure of the project and the results of the analysis, laying particular weight on the fact that a more sustainable economy is clearly possible without serious disruptions of consumption or welfare.