Policies to Enhance Sustainable Development
Sustainable development involves linking the economic, social and environmental objectives of societies in a balanced way. It stresses the importance of taking a broader view of what human welfare entails, of using a long-term perspective about the consequences of today's activities, and of rec...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Paris :
OECD Publishing
2001.
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| Colección: | Sustainable development.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705599006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Preface""; ""Other OECD publications released in the context of the three-year project on sustainable development""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Chapter 1: Key Challenges and Policy Responses""; ""Introduction""; ""Box 1. Key concepts""; ""Box 2. Important elements of sustainable development policies""; ""De-coupling environmental pressures from economic growth: key challenges""; ""Figure 1. Global temperatures and emissions of greenhouse gases in OECD countries""; ""The social dimension of sustainable development""; ""Box 3. Social capital""
- ""Inadequate responses: knowledge and implementation gaps""""Box 4. Measuring sustainable development""; ""A framework for sustainable development policies: key policy responses""; ""Making markets work for sustainable development""; ""Strengthening decision making""; ""Harnessing science and technology""; ""Managing linkages with the global economy""; ""Responding to climate change""; ""Managing natural resources""; ""Chapter 2: Making Markets Work for Sustainable Development""; ""Establishing the right policy framework""; ""Using market-based instruments to provide the right signals""
- ""Environment-related taxes""""Figure 2. Environmental taxes in OECD countries in 1998""; ""Tradable permits""; ""Box 5. Examples of emission trading schemes in the United States""; ""Reforming sectoral support programmes""; ""Box 6. A classification of agricultural support""; ""Overcoming obstacles to market-based policy reform""; ""Enhancing the effectiveness of other instruments""; ""Regulatory reform""; ""Multi-stakeholder initiatives""; ""Box 7. The role of financial and insurance markets for sustainable development""; ""Box 8. Examples of negotiated agreements""
- ""Information programmes""""Chapter 3: Strengthening Decision Making""; ""Introduction""; ""Policy integration""; ""Box 9. Strategic environmental assessment of the budget process in Denmark""; ""Sectoral policy integration""; ""Box 10. Policy integration issues for sustainable development in selected sectors""; ""Policy integration between levels of government""; ""Strengthening the machinery of government""; ""Box 11. The “whole-of-government� approach to policy integration in the United Kingdom""; ""Accountability""
- ""Box 12. Environmentally-sustainable growth in the OECD Economic Review process""""Transparency and participation""; ""Chapter 4: Harnessing Science and Technology""; ""Introduction""; ""Providing the right framework conditions""; ""Addressing the potential risks of technological change""; ""Using environmental policy instruments to guide technological change""; ""Box 13. Environmental policy instruments and innovation""; ""Box 14. Examples of emerging technologies""; ""Ensuring that priorities for sustainable development are reflected in basic research""; ""Box 15. Fostering clusters""
- ""Box 16. Examples of environmental technology partnerships""
