Towards a sustainable economy : the application of ecological premises to long-term planning in Norway / Stein Hansen, Pål Føyn Jespersen, and Ingeborg Rasmussen.

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.