Changing Things ¿ Moving People

Strategies for Promoting Sustainable Development at the Local Level
2001
ISBN: 978-3-7643-6252-2
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 692 g

This book results from a pioneering effort to organize a productive interdisciplinary research program on sustainable development policy in a small country not previously recognized as a world leader in environmental social science. The results are very promising, considering the short time frame and the high barriers to success for such an enterprise - differences in concepts and terminology, disciplinary myopia, and the inherent difficulty of the problem. In the USA, where I work, these barriers continue to pose major challenges after some 30 years of effort. Switzerland has made noteworthy progress in only five. I hope this book represents the beginning of a long­ term effort at problem-oriented interdisciplinary collaboration among Swiss researchers and prac­ titioners. The Swiss group has succeeded in developing a unifying framework that makes a major contri­ bution to environmental policy analysis. The framework broadens policy thinking by giving se­ rious treatment to underutilized strategies that rely on communication and informal influence as well as to well-studied ones that rely on technological change, regulation, and economic forces. This broad typology makes it easier for an analyst to escape the tendency to presume that the po­ licy instrument currently in fashion, whether it be market-based instruments, voluntary measures, or whatever, is the right strategy for all problems. It also encourages discipline-based analysts to consider how their favored strategies might be combined with other strategies less familiar to them, and thus to craft strategies that can take advantage of the strengths of various policy instruments.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gutscher, Heinz

Kaufmann-Hayoz, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltsoziologie, Umweltpsychologie, Umweltethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by P.C. Stern.- Reader’s Guide and Acknowledgements.- Transformation toward Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary, Actor-Oriented Perspective.- Switzerland’s Environmental and Sustainability Policies.- Theoretical Framework.- Atypology of Tools for Building Sustainability Strategies.- Psycolocical Principles of Inducing Behaviour Change.- Empirical Studies on Selected Istruments and Instrument COndition.- Between Efficiency and Sufficiency. The Optimal Combination of Policy Instruments in the Mobility Sector towards Sustainable Development.- Voluntary COllective Action in Neighborhood Slow-Down — Using Communication and Diffusion Instruments.- Taxation of Residential Energy Use.- The Acceptance of Instruments among Energy Policy Key Players.- Solar and Alternative Power Supply: An Instrument towards Ecologically Sound Power Consumption?.- Strategic Networking and Implementation of Communication and Diffusion Instruments to Develop Local Energy Policies.- Economic Instruments for Wastewater Disposal.- A lawyer’s Comment on Maller and Kramer.- Mobilising Resources for More Sustainable Lifestyles: Views of Households and Local Authorities.- A lawyer’s Comment on Bruppacher and Utli-Beer.- Possibilities and Limits of Environmentally Responsible Action as Perceived by Participants in the Household EcoTeam Programme.- Conclusions.- Suggestions for Designing Policy Strategies for Sustainable Development.- Inter and Transdisciplinary Processes - Experience and Lessons Learnt.- List of Authors.- List of Projects.