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

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Social Costs and Sustainability — an Overview....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Externalities Studies: Why are the Numbers Different?....Pages 13-28
Have Recent Studies Rendered Environmental Externality Valuation Irrelevant?....Pages 29-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Economic and Ecological Concepts of Sustainable Development: External Costs and Sustainability Indicators....Pages 47-60
Social Costs of Climate Change Strong Sustainability and Social Costs....Pages 61-83
Pressure Indices and Relative Valuation of Environmental Damages....Pages 84-99
Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting....Pages 100-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
External Costs of Fossil Fuel Cycles....Pages 121-136
Quantifying the Risks Of Nuclear Electric Energy....Pages 137-160
The External Costs of Wind Energy — and What They Mean for Energy Policy?....Pages 161-175
External Costs and External Price Addings in the Swiss Energy Sector....Pages 176-183
The Magnitude of Electricity Externalities Through Time....Pages 184-199
Counting the Costs: Scientific Uncertainty and Valuation Perspective in EXMOD....Pages 200-231
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Least-Cost Planning — An Instrument for Minimization of Social Costs....Pages 235-243
Sustainability and the Valuation of Externalities from Electricity Generation in California....Pages 244-263
The Use of Externality Adders for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Electric Utility Resource Planning....Pages 264-285
Climate for Climate Change Actions in the U.S.: The New York Experience....Pages 286-296
Competitive Values of Electric Generation Plants in New York Based on Social Costs....Pages 297-309
A Canadian Utility’s Experience in Implementing Sustainable Energy Development, Particularly Through the Use of Full Cost Accounting....Pages 310-323
Environmental Externalities: Analysis and Advocacy....Pages 324-337
Front Matter....Pages 339-339
External Costs of Transport in Germany....Pages 341-356
The True Cost of Road Transport in the United Kingdom....Pages 357-379
The Annualized Social Cost of Motor Vehicle Use in the U.S.-Based on 1990–1991 Data: Summary of Theory, Data, Methods, and Results....Pages 380-417
The Cost of Transportation’s Oil Dependence....Pages 418-430
Overcoming Barriers to Transportation Cost Internalization....Pages 431-447
Front Matter....Pages 449-449
Economic Effects of an Ecological Tax Reform....Pages 451-464
Energy Taxes, the Climate Change Convention, and Economic Competitiveness....Pages 465-487
Using Environmental Externalities to Regulate the Risk of Harm From Greenhouse Gas Emissions....Pages 488-500
The Role of Technical Progress in Economic Models of Environmental Policy....Pages 501-515
Beyond Economics and Econometrics: Some Psychological and Political Aspects of the Internalization of External Costs....Pages 516-527
The External Costs Of Energy Use: Internalization Without The State?....Pages 528-545
Back Matter....Pages 547-560