Environment, Technology and Economic Growth

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Environment, Technology and Economic Growth

The Challenge to Sustainable Development

9781858982144 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by Andrew Tylecote, Professor of the Economics and Management of Technological Change, Sheffield University Management School, UK and Jan van der Straaten, Senior Researcher in Environmental and Ecological Economics, European Centre for Nature Conservation, the Netherlands and Retired Senior Lecturer, Department of Leisure Studies, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Publication Date: March 1998 ISBN: 978 1 85898 214 4 Extent: 272 pp
At the end of the twentieth century economists and policymakers face an unprecedented dual challenge: to avert ecological disaster and to relaunch economic growth in the face of mass unemployment world-wide.

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At the end of the 20th century economists and policymakers face an unprecedented dual challenge: to avert ecological disaster and to end mass unemployment by accelerating and redirecting world economic growth.

This major volume brings together contributions from environmental and technological economists. The first part discusses the ecological challenge to economists and policymakers and shows that both need a radical change in their approach. The second part discusses the institutional and legal changes which are necessary to address this challenge. The final part deals with the technological revolution, focusing on microelectronics and biotechnology, which is now transforming the world economy, and sets it in the context of long term fluctuations in economic growth and the relative stagnation since 1973.

The protection of the environment, and economic growth with full employment are not necessarily opposed. On the contrary, as this volume demonstrates, what is required to return to full employment and more rapid growth is vigorous and concerted government action to give an ‘eco-friendly’ direction to technological and economic change.
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‘This book is very diverse.’
– David I. Stern, The Economic Journal
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Contributors: J.M. Alier, F.J. Dietz, E. Egger, C. Freeman, G. Hanappi, F. Hinterberger, B. Johnson, K. Lindegaard, A. Lipietz, M. Ollikainen, I. Røpke, E.K. Seifert, A. Tylecote, J. van der Straaten
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Contents: Introduction: Ecology, Technology and Institutions (A. Tylecote and J. van der Straaten) Part I: The Ecological Agenda for Sustainable Development Part II: The Institutional Agenda for Sustainable Development Part III: Ecology, Technology and Long Fluctuations in Economic Growth Index
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