Sustainability in action : sectoral and regional case studies / edited by Jörg Köhn, John Gowdy, Jan van der Straaten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Köhn, Jörg, 1959-

Gowdy, John M.

Straaten, Jan van der.

Series:

Advances in ecological economics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--Case studies.

Sustainable development.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2001]

Contents:

1 Sustainability as a Management Concept / Jorg Kohn, John Gowdy 3

Part II Designing Industry for Sustainability

2 Sustainable Economy

Fact or Fiction? / Birgit Blattel-Mink 19

3 Firms, Product Life-cycles and Innovation / Frans Berkhout 34

4 Eco-performance Evaluation / Harald Pulm 61

5 Sustainability and Industrial Democracy / Kurt Aagaard Nielsen, Birger Steen Nielsen, Peter Olsen 78

6 Eco-restructuring and the 'Friction of Distance' / Danilo Pelletiere 88

Part III Measuring and Designing Sustainable Agriculture

7 The AMOEBA Approach: a Tool for Multidimensional Analyses of Agricultural System Performance / Mario Giampietro, Gianni Pastore 109

8 Can a Firm be Ethical? Friedman, Georgescu-Roegen and Sustainable Agriculture / Sigrid Stagl, John Gowdy 135

9 Issues in Measuring the Benefits of Transgenic Crops to Sustainable Agriculture / Brian J. Hubbell, Rick Welsh 151

Part IV Tools for Integrative Landscape Planning, Environmental Protection and Restoration

10 Restructuring of Bohlen Industrial Site in View of Regional Sustainable Development / Irene Ring, Helga Horsch 177

11 Conservation and Social Discourse Processes: an Example from Austria / Klaus Hubacek, Wolfgang Bauer 186

12 A Process Report on Ecological Economic Watershed Management: The Torgal Watershed, Portugal / Luis Jordao, Paula Antunes, Rui Santos 205

Part V Designing Policies for Sustainability

13 Sustainable Transport and 'Factor Four' / Danielle B. van Veen-Groot, Peter Nijkamp 223

14 Economic Development from the Ground Up: a Socioecological Approach to Urban Development / Sabine U. O'Hara 243

15 In Search of Sustainable Development: Lessons in Application from the Adirondack Park / Jon D. Erickson 261

16 Natural Resource Accounts as a Tool for Sustainability in Namibia / Glenn-Marie Lange 281.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1840640677

OCLC:

43810932