Environment and Employment (eBook, ePUB)

A Reconciliation
Redaktion: Lawn, Philip

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book reconciles the growing conflict between the ecological sustainability and full employment objectives, discussing and analyzing the impact that achieving ecological sustainability will have on unemployment and the nature of the workplace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134060375
• Artikelnr.: 42654002

Autorenporträt

Philip Lawn is a Senior Lecturer in ecological economics at Flinders University, Australia. His work includes six books, numerous book chapters, and nearly fifty journal articles. His more recent book, co-edited with Matthew Clarke, focuses on sustainable welfare in the Asia-Pacific region.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENT AND EMPLOYMENT Chapter 1: Why focus
on the connection between the environment and employment? Philip Lawn
Chapter 2: The potential conflict between ecological sustainability and
full employment Philip Lawn PART II: POST-KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS AND THE
ENVIRONMENT Chapter 3: Why have Post-Keynesians (perhaps) inadequately
dealt with issues related to the environment? Andrew Mearman Chapter 4:
Recovering and extending classical and Marshallian foundations for
Post-Keynesian environmental economics Paul Christensen Chapter 5:
Post-Keynesian economics and sustainable development Richard Holt PART III:
GUARANTEED EMPLOYMENT VERSUS GUARANTEED INCOME Chapter 6: The Basic Income
Guarantee and the goals of equity, efficiency, and environmentalism Karl
Widerquist and Michael Lewis Chapter 7: Evaluating the economic and
environmental viability of Basic Income and Job Guarantees Pavlina
Tcherneva Chapter 8: A comparison of the macroeconomic consequences of
Basic Income and Job Guarantee schemes William Mitchell and Martin Watts
PART IV: ECOLOGICAL TAX REFORM AND THE DOUBLE DIVIDEND Chapter 9: An
applied general equilibrium analysis of a double dividend policy for the
Spanish economy Antonio Manresa and Ferran Sancho Chapter 10: An empirical
assessment of ecological tax reform and the double dividend Philip Lawn
PART V: JOBS VERSUS THE ENVIRONMENT Chapter 11: A city that works -
employment patterns and ecosystem service requirements in greater
Christchurch, New Zealand Nigel Jollands, Nancy Golubiewski, and Garry
McDonald Chapter 12: Employment and environment in a sustainable Europe
Freiderich Hinterberger, Ines Omann, and Andrea Stocker Chapter 13:
Managing without growth Peter Victor and Gideon Rosenbluth PART VI:
CONCLUSION Chapter 14: Final thoughts on reconciling the goals of
ecological sustainability and full employment Philip Lawn