This book is the culmination of several years work by a group of
academics, policy-makers and other professionals looking to
understand how alternative economic thinking - and indeed thinking
from quite different social-scientific disciplines - could enhance
the mainstream economic approach to environmental and
natural-resource problems. Of the editors, Dietz comes from the
mainstream economics tradition, while Michie and Oughton draw
explicitly on institutional and evolutionary economics. The various
authors represent a range of disciplinary backgrounds and
approaches. This book draws on the strengths of each and all of
these approaches to analyse environmental issues and what can be
done to tackle these through corporate and public policy. This book
makes the case for an inter-disciplinary approach. Two themes which
emerge repeatedly throughout the book are the need for an
interdisciplinary theory of technological change, and the need for
a similarly interdisciplinary approach to the study of human
behaviour and how it influences both production and consumption
choices. The two themes are of course related. Resolving
environmental questions requires an understanding of their nature,
of their causes and, to the extent that they are anthropogenic, of
how to change human behaviour. These fundamental issues are the
focus of the four chapters that form Part 1 of this volume. The
remainder of the volume develops them in more detail. .
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