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Umfang: 1 online resource (367 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9781844076611 , 9781849773423

Inhalt: Trade liberalization, as promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO), has become one of the dominant drivers and most controversial aspects of globalization. Trade sustainability impact assessments (SIAs) were introduced as a means of generating better understanding especially of the social and environmental impacts of trade liberalisation, and of making those impacts more consistent with sustainable development. This book takes a hard look at the experience of Trade SIAs to date, and the extent to which they have achieved their objectives and improved the outcomes of trade negotiations. It proposes several ways in which Trade SIAs could be made more effective, and illustrates these in respect of controversial sectors in which trade liberalisation has been implemented or proposed, including commodities, services and investment. Finally the book makes proposals beyond SIA through which some of the conflicts between trade liberalization and sustainable development could be more effectively addressed. Written by top researchers and experts on trade SIAs, this book is vital for researchers, academics, post-graduate students and policy makers working on any aspect of impact assessment, international trade or globalisation more generally. In addition, the book will provide a particularly useful background for those considering how the environment and trade interrelate at both global and regional levels, with some particular insights on climate change and trade policies

Anmerkung: Intro -- Trade, Globalization and Sustainability Impact Assessment: A Critical Look at Methods and Outcomes -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Overview and General Introduction -- Part 1 The Context: Trade, SIAs and Development -- 1 Trade-induced Changes in Economic Inequality: Assessment Issues and Policy Implications for Developing Countries -- 2 Why Did 'Development' Entrap the Doha Round? -- 3 Have Sustainability Impact Assessments of Trade Agreements Delivered on Development Issues: A Reflexive Analysis of the Emergence and Main Contributions of Trade SIAs -- Part 2 The New Challenges of Trade Liberalization: Beyond SIA -- 4 Trade SIAs and the New Challenges of Trade Liberalization -- 5 Investment: The Context Matters -- 6 Sustainability Impacts of Liberalizing Trade in Services: Assessment Methodologies and Policy Responses -- 7 The Impacts of Liberalizing Trade in Commodities -- 8 The Potential Role for Collective Preferences in Determining the Rules of the International Trading System -- Part 3 Breaking the Impasse: The National Policy Framework -- 9 Improving Public Participation in Sustainability Impact Assessments of Trade Agreements -- 10 Identifying Trade Victims -- 11 Trade-induced Changes in Labour Market Inequalities: Current Findings and Policy Implications -- 12 The Value of Value Chains: Spreading the Gains from Liberalization -- Part 4 International Cooperation -- 13 Collective Preferences and International Compensation -- 14 Reducing the Impacts of the Production and Trade of Commodities -- 15 The Trade and Environment Relationships Reconsidered: The Case of Regional Trade and Climate Change -- Conclusion -- Index

Weitere Ausg.: Print version Ekins, Paul Trade, Globalization and Sustainability Impact Assessment London : Taylor & Francis Group,c2009 ISBN 9781844076611

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: 1 online resource (418 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9780415039376 , 9780203169063

Anmerkung: BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE The need for a new economics -- PART TWO Putting people first -- 1 A FRAMEWORK FOR THE FUTURE -- 'HUMAN-SCALE ECONOMICS: THE CHALLENGES AHEAD' -- Basic ideas, hypotheses and intuitions -- (a) Micro-macro articulation -- (b) The invisible sector -- (c) The concept of human needs -- (d) The concept of poverty -- (e) Critical systems size -- (f) The aim of self-reliance -- (g) Ecological constraints -- (h) The question of indicators -- NOTES -- 2 A QUESTION OF NEEDS -- 'NEEDS AND COMMODITIES' -- VALUES, GOALS AND MOTIVATIONS -- Self-Explorers -- Social Resisters -- Experimentalists -- Conspicuous Consumers -- Belongers -- Survivors -- Aimless -- 'HUMAN NEED AND STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE' -- Basic individual and societal needs -- Optimising basic need satisfaction and human liberation -- Social and ecological conditions for human liberation -- NOTES -- 3 THE NATURE OF WORK -- 'WHAT COMES AFTER FULL EMPLOYMENT?' -- Introduction -- Three possible futures for work -- A new policy approach -- Some attributes of work: a review -- Work as a dependent activity -- Work as activity under remote control -- Work as specialised activity -- Work as instrumental activity -- Work as formal activity -- Work as masculine activity -- Work as exclusive activity -- The implications for economics -- NOTES -- 4 IN SEARCH OF SELF-RELIANCE -- 'TOWARDS A NEW ECONOMICS: ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SELF-RELIANCE' -- On the economics of self-reliance -- On the economics of global interdependence -- Self-reliance and global interdependence: a balance sheet -- NOTES -- 5 HEALTH is WEALTH -- 'THE MISMATCH BETWEEN HEALTH AND ECONOMICS' -- Health and economic growth -- Health as an economic minus , 13 LEARNING FROM THE SOUTH -- 'THE GREEN BELT MOVEMENT' -- Background -- The needs which inspired the movement -- Fuelwood -- Food production -- Soil erosion -- Population -- Lack of community participation -- Lack of public awareness -- The short-term objectives -- Focus on women's role in development -- The long-term objectives -- Achieving the objectives -- The lessons learnt -- 'PIECE-RATE WORKERS' ATTEMPT AT SELF-RELIANCE' -- 'PUTTING THE LAST FIRST'1 -- Errors and explanations -- First values and preferences -- The structure of first thinking -- Growth and spread -- Science and quantification -- Learning from above -- Analysing last needs -- Basic needs and basic goods -- Employment and livelihood -- Poverty and vulnerability -- First and last in agricultural technology -- First defences: blame, distance and denial -- Last thinking -- An agenda for research and action -- NOTES -- 14 TRADE AND THE MULTINATIONALS -- 'ALTERNATIVE TRADING STRATEGIES' -- Free trade -- Autarchy -- Trading blocks and selectivity -- 'DELINKING FROM THE WORLD MARKET' -- 'THE ROLE OF CORPORATIONS' -- A shift in underlying beliefs -- A long-term evolutionary trend -- The emerging role of the corporation -- NOTES -- CONCLUSION -- THE NATIONAL ACCOUNTS -- WORK, JOBS AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY -- HEALTH PROMOTION -- REAL AID -- TRADE FOR SELF-RELIANCE -- INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION -- APPENDIX 1 THE OTHER ECONOMIC SUMMIT CONFERENCE PAPERS, 1984 AND 1985: DETAILS OF CONTRIBUTORS -- APPENDIX 2 RELEVANT ADDRESSES -- APPENDIX 3 STEERING COMMITTEE OF THE OTHER ECONOMIC SUMMIT -- APPENDIX 4 MAIN SPONSORS OF THE OTHER ECONOMIC SUMMIT IN 1984 AND 1985 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX , Non-employed: unpaid work -- Black economy -- Community work -- Domestic work -- Education and training -- People -- Young people -- Older people -- Adult men -- Adult women -- What of the future? -- NOTES -- 10 TAXATION, BENEFITS AND THE BASIC INCOME -- 'UNIVERSALISING CAPITAL OWNERSHIP' -- NOTES -- 11 INDUSTRIAL PRIORITIES AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHOICE -- 'AN ECONOMIC SCENARIO FOR A CONSERVER-ECONOMY' -- Introduction -- Theoretical points of departure -- Production -- Environment -- Income distribution -- Employment -- Safety for the future -- Measures and instruments -- The results -- Why it seems necessary to implement the environmental scenario -- 'THE SUNRISE SEVEN' -- NOTES -- 12 LOCAL ECONOMIC REGENERATION AND CO-OPERATION -- 'A NEW LOCAL ECONOMIC ORDER' -- 'WHAT SMALL BUSINESS EXPERIENCE TEACHES ABOUT ECONOMIC THEORY' -- Direct observations derived from the Briarpatch economic database -- 1 Briars set their own prices with relatively little direct reference to 'the market' -- 2 Pricing, merchandising and marketing are more successful in attracting customers when they contradict prevailing business values -- 3 Profit as a primary goal or value in business has a detrimental effect -- 4 Social costs are rewarded when included in the business pricing structure -- 5 Infrastructure costs are the prime determinant affinal consumer prices -- 6 Competition is a poor model of the real world -- cooperation and 'niches' are more accurate -- 7 Monopolies can occur in ordinary circumstances and arise from superior service -- 8 Honesty is a major positive factor in business efficiency -- dishonesty has negative effects and is geometrically harmful the greater the degree of dishonesty -- 9 Ownership of resources doesn't make any difference to business efficiency -- 'CO-OPERATION: WHERE THE SOCIAL MEETS THE ECONOMIC' -- NOTES , Sickness as an economic plus -- Limits to conventional health policies -- The economic/social divide -- Health, lifestyles and living conditions -- Third World -- Health needs, human needs -- Secure work and a useful role in society -- Dependency/self-reliance -- 'DEMEDICALIZATION AND POSSIBILITIES FOR HEALTH' -- NOTES -- 6 INDICATORS OF ECONOMIC PROGRESS -- RESOURCE ACCOUNTING -- 'FROM GROSS TO ADJUSTED NATIONAL PRODUCT' -- The concept and classification of defensive expenditures -- The move from Gross National Product to Adjusted National Product -- 'HEALTH-BASED INDICATORS OF ECONOMIC PROGRESS' -- Infant mortality rate -- Life expectancy -- Health expectancy -- Coherence -- 'SOCIAL INDICATORS FOR POPULAR PLANNING' -- Background -- The social indicator movement -- From social indicators to a satisfaction index? -- Our approach -- Human activity patterns -- 'MAKING THE INFORMAL ECONOMY VISIBLE' -- Towards an operational definition of informal -- Towards indicators of informal activity -- The outlook for change -- NOTES -- PART THREE The new economics in action -- 7 ACCESS TO LAND -- FARMING WITH NATURE -- CO-OPERATIVE LAND HOLDING -- 'CO-OPERATIVE LAND BANKS'3 -- Inequity and inefficiency in private and public ownership -- Features of co-operative land banks -- Building co-operative land banks -- Capturing development profits -- Conclusion -- 'LAND VALUE TAXATION' -- The planning system -- NOTES -- 8 FINANCIAL FUTURES -- LOCAL CURRENCY -- The Labour Exchange Bazaar, 1832 to 1834 -- The Guernsey experiment, 1815-36, 1914 to the present -- The Worgl experiment, c. 1929 to c. 1934 -- SOCIAL INVESTMENT AND SAVER SOVEREIGNTY -- 'MONEY AS IF PEOPLE MATTERED' -- DECENTRALISED BANKING -- NOTES -- 9 WORKING LIKE WOMEN -- 'FLEXIBLE WORKING PATTERNS' -- Employment: paid work -- Occupations and industries -- Hours of work -- Places of work

Weitere Ausg.: Print version Ekins, Paul The Living Economy Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c1986 ISBN 9780415039376

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: 1 online resource (387 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9780415173322 , 9780203011751

Inhalt: Ekins breaks new ground in defining the conditions of compatibility between economic growth and environmental sustainabilty, and provides measures and criteria by which the environmental sustainabilty of economic growth can be judged

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Weitere Ausg.: Print version Ekins, Paul Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c1999 ISBN 9780415173322

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: 1 online resource (408 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9781849710848 , 9781136539992

Anmerkung: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Conversion Matrix -- 1 Introduction -- The long-term challenge of secure low carbon energy -- Thinking about energy futures -- How the book was written -- Structure of the book -- 2 UK Energy in an Era of Globalization: Trends, Technologies and Environmental Impacts -- Introduction -- Long-term energy trends -- Final energy demand -- How energy is used -- Future energy demand technologies -- Primary energy demand -- Trends in electricity generation -- Future electricity generation technologies -- Energy trade and self-sufficiency -- Energy infrastructure -- Environmental concerns -- Conclusions -- 3 UK Energy Policy and Institutions -- Introduction -- Ownership issues, late 1940s to mid-1990s -- Managing and regulating the flow of electricity -- Managing and regulating the flow of gas -- New issues in energy policy -- UK climate and energy policy development -- UK policies for CO2 emissions reduction, 2000-2010 -- Policies for energy security -- Conclusion -- 4 Energy Futures: The Challenges of Decarbonization and Security of Supply -- Introduction -- Energy systems, decarbonization and resilience -- The scenario framework -- Scenario analysis and modelling tools -- Key assumptions in the core scenarios -- Reference scenario results -- The gap between the Reference scenario and policy aspirations -- 5 Pathways to a Low Carbon Economy -- Introduction -- Scenario design -- Scenario results -- Insights and conclusions -- Annex 5.1: Data for calculation of carbon tax implied by UK Climate Change Levy (CCL) -- 6 A Resilient Energy System -- Introduction -- What can go wrong: shocks to the energy system -- Indicators of resilience -- Quantifying resilience at the macro level , In conclusion -- Index , Resilience: implications for energy markets and technologies -- Reliability in the network industries -- Hypothetical system shocks -- Mitigating the shocks -- Adding up the costs of resilience -- Policy implications -- 7 Accelerating the Development of Energy Supply Technologies: The Role of Research and Innovation -- Introduction -- Technological innovation and energy system change -- The accelerated technology development scenarios -- Scenarios, system modelling and the real world -- Accelerated development scenarios and UK decarbonization pathways -- Implications and challenges -- Summary and conclusions -- 8 A Change of Scale? Prospects for Distributed Energy Resources -- Introduction -- Challenges in the residential sector -- Technology characteristics, performance and suitability -- The human dimension: installers and householders -- Policy challenges for distributed energy resources -- Conclusions -- 9 The Way We Live From Now On: Lifestyle and Energy Consumption -- Introduction -- Quantifying lifestyle -- Lifestyle change at home -- Lifestyle change in mobility and transport -- Lifestyle change for a low carbon world -- Public policy implications -- Conclusions -- 10 Not Just Climate Change: Other Social and Environmental Perspectives -- Introduction -- Environmental pressures -- Socio-environmental sensitivities -- Conclusions -- 11 UK Energy in an Uncertain World -- Introduction -- Assumptions and scenarios -- Results -- Conclusions -- 12 Putting It All Together: Implications for Policy and Action -- Introduction -- Current energy system challenges -- The historic context -- Comparing the scenarios -- Multiple pathways to a low carbon economy -- Building in resilience -- Accelerating technological change -- Decarbonizing electricity supply -- Energy demand -- Lifestyle change -- Environmental concerns -- The international context

Weitere Ausg.: Print version Skea, Jim Energy 2050 Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2010 ISBN 9781849710848

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Umfang: 1 online resource (484 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9780415079778 , 9780203012796

Inhalt: In Real Life Economics, the authors construct an economic framework with which to address the wider implications of the industrial economy. They illuminate and offer guidance about practical matters of an economic nature in the real world

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Weitere Ausg.: Print version Ekins, Paul Real Life Economics Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c1992 ISBN 9780415079778

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Umfang: 1 online resource (342 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9780199570683 , 9780191571428

Inhalt: This book offers an extensive analysis of carbon-energy taxation that addresses the interplay between carbon-energy taxation and emissions trading, as well as the implications for future international climate policy

Anmerkung: Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I. Pricing of Carbon in Europe -- 1. Carbon-Energy Taxation, Revenue Recycling, and Competitiveness -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The Porter hypothesis on the relationship between environmental regulation and competitiveness -- 1.3. The double dividend debate -- 1.4. What kind of efficiency are we talking about? -- 1.5. Conventional indicators of competitiveness -- 1.6. The need to account for technology and innovation -- 1.7. Coverage of the book -- 2. Design of Environmental Tax Reforms in Europe -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Denmark -- 2.3. Finland -- 2.4. Germany -- 2.5. The Netherlands -- 2.6. Slovenia -- 2.7. Sweden -- 2.8. UK -- 2.9. Conclusions -- Part II. Industry-Sector Competitiveness -- 3. Assessing Vulnerability of Selected Sectors under Environmental Tax Reform: The Issue of Pricing Power -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Context -- 3.3. Literature review and price-setting model -- 3.4. Data -- 3.5. Results -- 3.6. Discussion of results by sector -- 3.7. Implications -- 3.8. Summary and conclusions -- 4. Trends in the Competitiveness of Selected Industrial Sectors in ETR Countries -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Theoretical assessment of competitiveness indicators -- 4.3. Empirical assessment of competitiveness trends -- 4.4. Conclusions -- 5. The Impact of Energy Taxes on Competitiveness: A Panel Regression Study of 56 European Industry Sectors -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Modelling the Porter effects associated with energy taxes -- 5.3. Data and method -- 5.4. The relation between energy taxes, competitiveness, and output -- 5.5. Interpretation of results -- 5.6. Conclusions -- 6. Energy-Intensive Industries: Approaches to Mitigation and Compensation -- 6.1. Introduction , 6.2. Ex-ante mitigation: tax-base modifications and reductions in tax rates -- 6.3. Ex-post compensation: revenue recycling approach -- 6.4. Winners and losers in ETR -- 6.5. Conclusions -- Part III. Country Competitiveness and Carbon Leakage -- 7. The Effects of Environmental Tax Reform on International Competitiveness in the European Union: Modelling with E3ME -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Modelling the EU Energy-Environment-Economy System with E3ME -- 7.3. Processing the COMETR tax data -- 7.4. Scenarios specified to model ETR -- 7.5. Estimation of competitiveness effects -- 7.6. The effects of selected ETRs, using E3ME, 1995-2012 -- 8. Carbon Leakage from Unilateral Environmental Tax Reforms in Europe, 1995-2005 -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. The literature on carbon leakage -- 8.3. Modelling carbon leakage -- 8.4. Description of ETR policies and carbon leakage scenarios -- 8.5. Results -- 8.6. Conclusions -- Part IV. Implications for Future Climate Policy -- 9. Carbon Taxes and Emissions Trading: Issues and Interactions -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Emissions trading -- 9.3. Competitiveness implications of emissions trading -- 9.4. Carbon taxes and emissions trading -- 9.5. The interactions between taxes and trading -- 9.6. Carbon taxes and emissions trading in the EU -- 10. Conclusions: Europe's Lessons from Carbon-Energy Taxation -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Avoiding dangerous climate change -- 10.3. Greenhouse gas reductions: the role of carbon-energy taxation and emissions trading -- 10.4. The economic dimension of the competitiveness debate: market shares and unit energy costs -- 10.5. The environmental dimension of the competitiveness debate: carbon leakage -- 10.6. Coping with the dual challenge of GHG stabilization and international competitiveness -- Annex -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O. , P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version Andersen, Mikael Skou Carbon-Energy Taxation Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2010 ISBN 9780199570683

Sprache: Englisch

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