ABSTRACT
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-dimensional and multi-actor policy for structural change.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |64 pages
A dynamic and systemic analysis of economic change
part |67 pages
Institutional/evolutionary views on environmental policy
part |69 pages
Regime change
chapter |23 pages
Grassroots innovations and socio-technical system change
part |57 pages
Creating a sustainable economy