Kaufmann-Hayoz, Ruth

Gutscher, Heinz

Changing Things - Moving People.

Strategies for Promoting Sustainable Development at the Local Level. Themenheft des Schwerpunktprogramms Umwelt (SSPU)

Basel

2001

9783764362522

3764362529

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Buchklappentext:

Traditionally, environmental policy in most countries is based on command and control and - to a lesser extent on the more modern economic instruments. Today, there is a strong need for complementing this traditional policy with a set of approaches that rely on communication and informal Influence to stimulate voluntary and cooperative action. The comprehensive and analytical description of these approaches and the related instruments presented in this book extend environmental policy thinking by in-depth treatment of tools for communication and diffusion, collaborative agreements, as well as service and infrastructure instruments. The different types of approaches and instruments are scribed in detail from an actor-oriented perspective.

Special emphasis is put on new approaches based on principles of social and behavioral psychology. To date, these have barely been discussed in relation to conventional Instruments. Several empirical studies carried out in Switzerland illuminate selected aspects arid combinations of traditional and innovative instruments using methods of economy, psychology, political sciences, and jurisprundence. These studies touch, in particular, an energy policy, waste water treatment, transport, and household behaviour.

The present work originates in a broad inter- and trans-disciplinary cooperation among academic scientists, researchers in private consultancy firms, and beneficiaries of the research, i.e., decision-makers in politics, public administration, companies, and non-governmental organisations. In a special chapter, the methods and procedures applied to developing integrated research results as well as to organising cooperation and communication with non-academic protect partners are described and evaluated.

The book addresses scholars from different disciplines - mainly experts in political, economic, social, and behavioral sciences - as well as educated lay persons interested in modern sustainability policy.

Inhalt

A Typology of Tools for Building Sustainability Strategies
1 Introduction
2 Overview of the typology
3 Detailed description of the instruments
4 Comparison and preliminary evaluation of the instrument types
5 Relationships to other typologies and classifications
Psychological Principles of Inducing Behaviour Change
Between Efficiency and Sufficiency The Optimal Combination of Policy Instruments in the Mobility Sector towards Sustainable Development
Voluntary Collective Action in Neighbourhood SlowDown Using Communication and Diffusion Instruments
Taxation of Residential Energy Use
The Acceptance of Instruments among Energy Policy Key Players
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 Lawyers Comment on Miiller and Kramer
Views of Households and Local Authorities
A Lawyers Comment on Bruppacher and UlliBeer
Possibilities and Limits of Environmentally Responsible Action as Perceived by Participants in the Household EcoTeam Programme
Suggestions for Designing Policy Strategies for Sustainable Development
Inter and Transdisciplinary ProcessesExperience and Lessons Learnt
List of Authors
List of Projects
Index
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