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New perspectives for environmental policies through behavioral economics

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York Springer 2016Description: xi, 335 pISBN:
  • 9783319167923
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.72 N3
Summary: This book presents essential insights on environmental policy derived from behavioral economics. The authors demonstrate the potential of behavioral economics to drive environmental protection and to generate concrete proposals for the efficient design of policy instruments. Moreover, detailed recommendations on how to use “nudges” and related instruments to move industry and society toward a sustainable course are presented. This book addresses the needs of environmental economists, behavioral economists and environmental policymakers, as well as all readers interested in the intersection between behavioral economics and environmental policy. (http://www.springer.com/in/book/9783319167923)
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Table of contents:

1.Introduction

PART I: Foundations and Overview

2.Innovative Behavioral Approaches to Analyze the Incentives of Environmental Instruments / Frank Beckenbach
3.Specification Required? A Survey of Scientists' Views About the Role of Behavioral Economics for Assessing Environmental Policy Instruments / Maria Daskalakis

PART II: Conceptual Issues

4.What Can Be Learned from Behavioral Economics for Environmental Policy? / Markus Pasche
5."Great Transformation" Towards Sustainability and Behavioral Economics / Erik Gawel
6.Behavioral Concepts as Part of a Participative Political Economics Perspective / Peter Soderbaum

PART III: Fields of Application

7.Behavioral I y Green: Why, Which and When Defaults Can Help / Lucia A. Reisch
8.Environmental Behavior and Fast and Frugal Heuristics / Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos
9.Behavioral Approaches to Managing Household Energy Consumption / Michelle Baddeley
Contents note continued: 10.Road Pricing in Germany: A Behavioral Economics Perspective / Erik Gawel
11.Implications of Behavioral Economics for Designing Adaptation Policies / Jonas Savelsberg

PART IV: Case Studies

12.Sustainable Behavioral Governance: Responsive Regulation for Innovation / Martin Fuhr
13.Behavioral Determinants of Environmental Innovation: A Carnegie-Based Approach / Maria Daskalakis.
14. Conclusions and Perspectives / Beckenbach, Frank

This book presents essential insights on environmental policy derived from behavioral economics. The authors demonstrate the potential of behavioral economics to drive environmental protection and to generate concrete proposals for the efficient design of policy instruments. Moreover, detailed recommendations on how to use “nudges” and related instruments to move industry and society toward a sustainable course are presented. This book addresses the needs of environmental economists, behavioral economists and environmental policymakers, as well as all readers interested in the intersection between behavioral economics and environmental policy.

(http://www.springer.com/in/book/9783319167923)

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