Social Costs and Sustainability
Subtitle: Valuation and Implementation in the Energy and Transport Sector
By: edited by Olav Hohmeyer, Klaus Rennings, Richard L. Ottinger
Contributors: Rennings, Klaus; Ottinger, Richard L.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9783642643729; 9783642603655
Subjects: Environmental economics; Engineering economy; Economics
Other titles: Proceedings of an International Conference, Held at Ladenburg, Germany, May 27-30, 1995
Description: Important progress has been made in recent years in the valuation of social costs of energy and transport. This progress has encouraged the insight that systems of "Green Accounting" considering social costs and policy instruments for the internalization of social costs are necessary tools to realize the worldwide goal of sustainable development. This workshop report provides an excellent survey of the latest results of social costs in the energy and transport sector. Further, the theoretical framework of social costs is extended to a broader concept of sustainable development. Finally, concepts and first experiences of the internalization of social costs e.g. through least cost planning or an ecological tax reform are reviewed.
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Table of contents: title: Contents: General Discussion of the Theoretical Relevance and Empirical Evidence of Social Costs; title: Economic and Ecological Approaches to Sustainable Development; title: New Valuation Studies on Social Costs of Energy; title: Consideration of Social Costs in Decision Making of Energy Utilities; title: Social Costs of Transportation; title: Consideration of Social Costs in Policy Making.