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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815312003321

Titolo

Creating a sustainable economy : an institutional and evolutionary approach to environmental policy / / edited by Gerardo Marletto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012

ISBN

1-136-30703-6

1-280-66519-X

9786613642127

0-203-11798-0

1-136-30704-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in ecological economics ; ; 21

Altri autori (Persone)

MarlettoGerardo <1961->

Disciplina

338.9/27

Soggetti

Economic development - Environmental aspects

Environmental policy - Economic aspects

Sustainable development

Environmental economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Creating a Sustainable Economy; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Part I: A dynamic and systemic analysis of economic change; 1. Agency and economic change; 2. Technologies, markets and economic change; 3. An institutional/evolutionary framework of economic change; Part II: Institutional/evolutionary views on environmental policy; 4. Governing the environment: the institutional economics approach; 5. Institutional/evolutionary economics and environmental policy

12. Ten memos for effective policiesIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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-dimen