Social Costs and Sustainability

1. Consideration of Social Costs in Decision Making of Energy Utilities

   1. The Use of Externality Adders for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Electric Utility Resource Planning

      • David Harrison Jr., Albert L. Nichols

      Pages 264-285

   2. Climate for Climate Change Actions in the U.S.: The New York Experience

      • Ajay K. Sanghi

      Pages 286-296

   3. Competitive Values of Electric Generation Plants in New York Based on Social Costs

      • Sury Putta, Glenn S. Barnette

      Pages 297-309

   4. A Canadian Utility’s Experience in Implementing Sustainable Energy Development, Particularly Through the Use of Full Cost Accounting

      • Helen Howes

      Pages 310-323

   5. Environmental Externalities: Analysis and Advocacy

      • William Steinhurst

      Pages 324-337

2. Social Costs of Transportation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 339-339

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   2. External Costs of Transport in Germany

      • Peter Bickel, Rainer Friedrich

      Pages 341-356

   3. The True Cost of Road Transport in the United Kingdom

      • David Maddison

      Pages 357-379

   4. The Annualized Social Cost of Motor Vehicle Use in the U.S.-Based on 1990–1991 Data: Summary of Theory, Data, Methods, and Results

      • Mark A. Delucchi

      Pages 380-417

   5. The Cost of Transportation’s Oil Dependence

      • David L. Greene

      Pages 418-430

   6. Overcoming Barriers to Transportation Cost Internalization

      • Michael Replogle

      Pages 431-447

3. Consideration of Social Costs in Policy Making

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 449-449

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   2. Economic Effects of an Ecological Tax Reform

      • Stefan Bach, Michael Kohlhaas, Barbara Praetorius

      Pages 451-464

   3. Energy Taxes, the Climate Change Convention, and Economic Competitiveness

      • Frank Muller

      Pages 465-487

   4. Using Environmental Externalities to Regulate the Risk of Harm From Greenhouse Gas Emissions

      • David Hodas

      Pages 488-500

   5. The Role of Technical Progress in Economic Models of Environmental Policy

      • Irene Peters

      Pages 501-515

   6. Beyond Economics and Econometrics: Some Psychological and Political Aspects of the Internalization of External Costs

      • Eberhard Moths

      Pages 516-527

   7. The External Costs Of Energy Use: Internalization Without The State?

      • Klaus P. Masuhr

      Pages 528-545

4. Back Matter

   Pages 547-560

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Important progress has been made in recent years in the valuation of social costs of energy and transport. This progress has encouraged the insight that systems of "Green Accounting" considering social costs and policy instruments for the internalization of social costs are necessary tools to realize the worldwide goal of sustainable development. This workshop report provides an excellent survey of the latest results of social costs in the energy and transport sector. Further, the theoretical framework of social costs is extended to a broader concept of sustainable development. Finally, concepts and first experiences of the internalization of social costs e.g. through least cost planning or an ecological tax reform are reviewed.

• Climate Change
• Environmental Policy
• External costs
• Greenhouse Gas
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Nachhaltige Entwicklung
• Social Costs
• Soziale Kosten
• Sustainable Energy
• energy
• energy policy
• environment
• nuclear
• sustainability
• sustainable development

• Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany

  Olav Hohmeyer, Klaus Rennings

• Center for Enivronmental Legal Studies, Pace University School of Law, White Plains, USA

  Richard L. Ottinger

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