Environment and Employment A Reconciliation

Uitgever: Routledge

Taal: Engels

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Engels
Paperback
9780415539876
20 november 2012
416 pagina's

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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.

Mounting evidence suggests that GDP growth is damaging the natural environment and unlikely to be ecologically sustainable in the long-run. At the same time, an annual GDP growth rate of around three percent is regarded as the minimum necessary to prevent unemployment from escalating. Clearly, a trade-off exists between environmental goals and employment goals, yet this trade-off has been largely ignored or denied.

This book aims to resolve the environment-employment dilemma by suggesting ways and means to achieve low rates of unemployment, or preferably full employment, in the context of a low-growth or steady-state economy. In search of a solution to this dilemma, this book seeks to answer the following questions:

What existing paradigms offer a possible foundation for further investigation into issues dealing with both the environment and employment?

What specific initiatives can be implemented to deal with unemployment given that any potential solution must be consistent with responsible macroeconomic policy?

To what extent can ecological tax reform provide a solution to the environment-employment dilemma?

Under what circumstances is it clear that certain forms of employment generation are antithetic to the goal of ecological sustainability?

How can more favourable employment-generating opportunities be exploited in ways which lower unemployment or achieve full employment without the need for ecologically-destructive GDP growth?

This book will no doubt stimulate a broader discussion on the issue, and it may just begin a process that leads to the eventual emergence of a viable policy strategy to generate a sustainable, full employment future. This book will be of interest to decision-makers, civil servants, researchers, and NGO employees as well as students of environmental and ecological economics and issues related to employment and unemployment.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 20 november 2012
Aantal pagina's: 416
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Hoofdredacteur: Philip Lawn
Hoofduitgeverij: Routledge

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Product breedte: 156 mm
Product hoogte: 22 mm
Product lengte: 234 mm
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