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The Political Economy of Sustainable Development, 1st ed. 2015
Valuation, Distribution, Governance
Author: Wolfson Dirk Jacob
Language: EnglishSubjects for The Political Economy of Sustainable Development:
Keywords
Environmental Economics; Behavioural Economics; Political Economy; Mechanism Design; Cost-benefit analysis; Valuation; Distribution; Governance; Situational Contracting; Political Philosophy; competition; development; Economic Development; efficiency; environmental economics; environmental policy; political economy; sustainable development; sustainability
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1.1. About this book
1.2. Economic analysis and environmental policy: scope and limits
1.3. Cost-benefit analysis: a preview
1.4. Valuation, distribution and legitimacy
1.5. Short cuts: cost-effectiveness, standards, multi-criteria and workable competition
1.6. Global economic development and ecological constraints
2. Valuation
2.1. The ' 'Coase-solution ' ' and emissions trading
2.2. Hedonic pricing, travel cost method and averting behaviour
2.3. Stated preferences: contingent valuation and choice experiments
2.4. Co- valuation and externalities in production functions
2.5. Persuasion
2.6. Fiscal instruments for managing preference
2.7. Innovation as externality on the supply side
2.8. Shadow prices or regulation?
2.9. Combining results, and sensitivity analysis
3. Distribution
3.1. Optimal allocation and fairness in distribution
3.2. Fiscal solutions
3.3. Distributional weights
3.4. Visions of justice
4. Governance
4.1. Cost-benefit analysis revisited
4.2. Interactive governance and information management
4.3. Situational contracting: implementation and empirical evidence
4.4. Situational solutions in the valuation and distribution of environmental policy
4.5. Summary and conclusions
Dirk Wolfson served with the IMF and Dutch Treasury, and was Professor of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, before his election in the Senate. Upon retirement, he returned to academia. He is a member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences and publishes widely on economics, the environment and political philosophy.