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Creating a Sustainable Economy: An Institutional and Evolutionary Approach to Environmental Policy book cover

1st Edition

Creating a Sustainable Economy An Institutional and Evolutionary Approach to Environmental Policy

Edited By Gerardo Marletto Copyright 2012
308 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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. Institutions... Read more

Preface G. Marletto.

Part I – A dynamic and systemic analysis of economic change: 1. Agency and economic change K. Safarzynska; 2. Technologies, markets and economic change M. Amendola and J.-L. Gaffard; 3. An institutional/evolutionary framework of economic change G. Marletto

Part II – Institutional/evolutionary views on environmental policy: 4. Governing the environment: the institutional economics approach A. Vatn; 5. Institutional/evolutionary economics and environmental policy G. Hodgson; 6. Managing the transition towards sustainable regimes: a coevolutionary approach T. Foxon

Part III – Regime change: three case studies: 7. Moving away from the motor car: the challenge of transition to low-carbon vehicles J. Köhler; 8. Grassroots innovations and socio-technical system change: energy retrofitting of the residential housing stock H.S. Brown and P. Vergragt; 9. The governance of technological transitions: the case of renewable energy A. Genus

Part IV –Creating a sustainable economy: 10. The role of entrepreneurship and markets for sustainable innovation A. Bergek; 11. Unlocking the unsustainable techno-institutional complex G. Unruh and P. del Rio; 12. Ten memos for effective policies G. Marletto

Biography

Gerardo Marletto is Associate Professor at the University of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy

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