Social Costs and Sustainability : Valuation and Implementation in the Energy and Transport Sector

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1 Social Costs and Sustainability - An OverviewSUBJECT AREA 1: GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE THEORETICAL RELEVANCE AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF SOCIAL COSTS -- 2 Externalities Studies: Why are the Numbers Different? -- 3 Have Recent Studies Rendered Environmental Externality Valuation Irrelevant? -- SUBJECT AREA 2: ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- 4 Economic and Ecological Concepts of Sustainable Development: External Costs and Sustainability Indicators -- 5 Social Costs of Climate Change. Strong Sustainability and Social Costs -- 6 Pressure Indices and Relative Valuation of Environmental Damages -- 7 Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting -- SUBJECT AREA 3: NEW VALUATION STUDIES ON SOCIAL COSTS OF ENERGY -- 8 External Costs of Fossil Fuel Cycles -- 9 Quantifying the Risks of Nuclear Electric Energy -- 10 The External Costs of Wind Energy - and What They Mean for Energy Policy -- 11 External Costs and External Price Addings in the Swiss Energy Sector -- 12 The Magnitude of Electricity Externalities Through Time -- 13 Counting the Costs: Scientific Uncertainty and Valuation Perspective in EXMOD -- SUBJECT AREA 4: CONSIDERATION OF SOCIAL COSTS IN DECISION MAKING OF ENERGY UTILITIES -- 14 Least-Cost Planning - An Instrument for Minimization of Social Costs -- 15 Sustainability and the Valuation of Externalities from Electricity Generation in California -- 16 The Use of Externality Adders for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Electric Utility Resource Planning -- 17 Climate for Climate Change Actions in the U.S.: The New York Experience -- 18 Competitive Values of Electric Generation Plants in New York Based on Social Costs -- 19 A Canadian Utility’s Experience in Implementing Sustainable Energy Development, Particularly through the Use of Full Cost Accounting -- 20 Environmental Externalities: Analysis and Advocacy -- SUBJECT AREA 5: SOCIAL COSTS OF TRANSPORTATION -- 21 External Costs of Transport in Germany -- 22 The True Cost of Road Transport in the United Kingdom -- 23 The Annualized Social Cost of Motor Vehicle Use in the U.S.-Based on 1990-1991 Data: Summary of Theory, Data, Methods, and Results -- 24 The Cost of Transportation’s Oil Dependence -- 25 Overcoming Barriers to Transportation Cost Internalization -- SUBJECT AREA 6: CONSIDERATION OF SOCIAL COSTS IN POLICY MAKING -- 26 Economic Effects of an Ecological Tax Reform -- 27 Energy Taxes, the Climate Change Convention, and Economic Competitiveness -- 28 Using Environmental Externalities to Regulate the Risk of Harm from Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- 29 The Role of Technical Progress in Economic Models of Environmental Policy -- 30 Beyond Economics and Econometrics: Some Psychological and Political Aspects of the Internalization of External Costs -- 31 The External Costs of Energy Use: Internalization Without the State? -- Participants of the Workshop.

10.1007/978-3-642-60365-5 [DOI]

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