Regional Sustainability: Applied Ecological Economics Bridging the Gap Between Natural and Social Sciences (Contributions to Economics)

This book presents interdisciplinary approaches towards achieving regional sustainability. The relevance of interdisciplinary research and its consequences for economic research into the environment are elaborated, and new approaches are developed to integrate knowledge from ecological and social sciences into economic research. Regional Sustainability includes the development of theoretical concepts as well as applied regional case studies relating to nature conservation and agricultural policies, coastal management and air pollution problems. Centered around the themes of decision-making processes, modelling as support for policy analysis and the evaluation of policies, it successfully addresses problems facing researchers and policy-makers in the context of regional sustainable development. The book pays special attention to human behaviour and stakeholders in decision-making processes, and contributes to the transition from ecological economics to socio-ecological economics. Front Matter....Pages I-VIII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Towards regional sustainability: the need for interdisciplinary and applied research....Pages 3-16 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Decisions in the context of sustainable development: ethics and implementation of multi-criteria analysis....Pages 19-35 Stakeholder approaches to intertemporal valuation....Pages 36-48 Sustainable development of society, economy and environment: consequences for integrated coastal management....Pages 49-64 Communicating sustainable development options — who evaluates the trade-offs?....Pages 65-87 Front Matter....Pages 89-89 Model-based criteria for the effectiveness of conservation strategies — an evaluation of incentive programmes in Saxony, Germany....Pages 91-106 Joint abatement strategies: a dynamic analysis of acidification and tropospheric ozone....Pages 107-125 Incorporating resistance in pesticide management: a dynamic regional approach....Pages 126-135 Some evidence of the relative efficiency of multiple-instrument policies for controlling agricultural nonpoint pollution: an application to nitrate pollution....Pages 136-151 Front Matter....Pages 153-153 The role of the Common Agricultural Policy in maintaining High Nature Value farming systems in Europe....Pages 155-167 Pesticide collection programs: a proposition to prevent future contamination....Pages 168-178 Nature conservation in urban landscapes. Implementation and acceptance issues....Pages 179-193 Local Agenda 21 as an intergovernmental approach to sustainable development: a promising new strategy?....Pages 194-209 Front Matter....Pages 211-211 Perspectives for economic research into sustainable policies....Pages 213-229 Back Matter....Pages 231-231 This work presents interdisciplinary approaches towards achieving regional sustainability. The relevance of interdisciplinary research and its consequences for economic research into the environment are elaborated, and new approaches are developed to integrate knowledge from ecological and social sciences into economic research. Regional Sustainability includes the development of theoretical concepts as well as applied regional case studies relating to nature conservation and agricultural policies, coastal management and air pollution problems. Centred around the themes of decision-making processes, modelling as support for policy analysis and the evaluation of policies, it successfully addresses problems facing researchers and policy-makers in the context of regional sustainable development. The book pays special attention to human behaviour and stakeholders in decision-making processes, and contributes to the transition from ecological research to socio-ecological economics