The Political Economy of Sustainable Development

1. Introduction<BR>1.1. About this book<BR>1.2. Economic analysis and environmental policy: scope and limits <BR>1.3. Cost-benefit analysis: a preview <BR>1.4. Valuation, distribution and legitimacy<BR>1.5. Short cuts: cost-effectiveness, standards, multi-criteria and workable competition <BR>1.6. Global economic development and ecological constraints <BR>2. Valuation<BR>2.1. The ' 'Coase-solution ' ' and emissions trading<BR>2.2. Hedonic pricing, travel cost method and averting behaviour<BR>2.3. Stated preferences: contingent valuation and choice experiments <BR>2.4. Co- valuation and externalities in production functions<BR>2.5. Persuasion<BR>2.6. Fiscal instruments for managing preference<BR>2.7. Innovation as externality on the supply side <BR>2.8. Shadow prices or regulation?<BR>2.9. Combining results, and sensitivity analysis<BR>3. Distribution<BR>3.1. Optimal allocation and fairness in distribution <BR>3.2. Fiscal solutions <BR>3.3. Distributional weights<BR>3.4. Visions of justice <BR>4. Governance<BR>4.1. Cost-benefit analysis revisited<BR>4.2. Interactive governance and information management <BR>4.3. Situational contracting: implementation and empirical evidence<BR>4.4. Situational solutions in the valuation and distribution of environmental policy<BR>4.5. Summary and conclusions<BR>