Modelling Sustainable Development

Transitions to a Sustainable Future

AvValentina Bosetti,Reyer Gerlagh

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

Del i serien The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei series on Economics, the Environment and Sustainable Development

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This insightful book explores the issue of sustainable development in its more operative and applied sense. Although a great deal of research has addressed potential interpretations and definitions of sustainable development, much of this work is too abstract to offer policy-makers and researchers the feasible and effective guidelines they require. This book redresses the balance.The authors highlight how various indicators and aggregate measures can be included in models that are used for decision-making support and sustainability assessment. They also demonstrate the importance of identifying practical means to assess whether policy proposals, specific decisions or targeted scenarios are sustainable.With discussions of basic concepts relevant to understanding applied sustainability analysis, such as definitions of costs and revenue recycling, this book provides policy-makers, researchers and graduate students with feasible and effective principles for measuring sustainable development.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-07-30
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei series on Economics, the Environment and Sustainable Development
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781847209054

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Edited by Valentina Bosetti, Professor, Bocconi University, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Italy, Reyer Gerlagh, Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Manchester, UK and Stefan P. Schleicher, Professor and Scientific Consultant, Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Austria

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'. . . the book is interesting for those who would like to know more about the economic energy and climate change models used in the EU and for those who are specialist builders and/or users of such models. . . [it] contains some interesting discussions on highly relevant issues in the modelling of environment-energy-economy systems. . .'

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:Foreword: Challenges of Sustainability to EconomicsGer KlaassenIntroduction: Modelling Sustainability – The TranSust ProjectValentina Bosetti, Reyer Gerlagh and Stefan P. SchleicherPART I: DEFINING SUSTAINABILITY1. Economic Models for Sustainable DevelopmentRichard S.J. Tol2. Designing Sustainability PolicyBarbara K. Buchner3. An American View of SustainabilityRay KoppPART II: ISSUES IN MODELLING SUSTAINABILITY4. Implementing the EU Sustainability IndicatorsChristoph Böhringer and Andreas Löschel5. Interpreting Environmental Policy Cost MeasuresJean-Charles Hourcade and Frédéric Ghersi6. Technical Progress in TranSust ModelsValentina Bosetti and Marzio Galeotti7. Revenue Recycling and Labour Markets: Effects on Costs ofPolicies for SustainabilityTerry Barker, Sebastian De-Ramon and Hector Pollitt8. Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Supporting Sustainable EnergySystemsBob van der ZwaanPART III: MODEL DESCRIPTIONS9. Market Allocation Model (MARKAL) at ECNKoen Smekens, Gerard Martinus and Bob van der Zwaan10. A Hybrid Model: DEMETERReyer Gerlagh and Bob van der Zwaan11. Impact Assessment of Climate Policies (IMACLIM-S)Frédéric Ghersi12. The Energy–Environment–Economy Model for Europe (E3ME)Terry Barker, Sebastian De-Ramon and Hector Pollitt13. An Endogenous Technical Change Model: FEEM-RICEValentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro and Marzio Galeotti14. Policy Analysis Based on Computable Equilibrium (PACE)Christoph Böhringer, Andreas Löschel and Thomas F. RutherfordPART IV: SYNTHESIS OF TRANSUST15. Economic Impacts of GHG Emission Reductions: An Overviewof Multiple Model CalculationsReyer Gerlagh, Stefan P. Schleicher, Walter Hyll and GregorThenius16. Transition to Sustainability: Some Preliminary ConclusionsValentina Bosetti and Carlo CarraroIndex