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" Changing Things -- Moving People : "
edited by Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, Heinz Gutscher.
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768051
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b588037
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edited by Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, Heinz Gutscher.
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Changing Things -- Moving People : : Strategies for Promoting Sustainable Development at the Local Level\ edited by Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, Heinz Gutscher.
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Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2001
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Themenhefte (Schwerpunktprogramm Umwelt (Switzerland))
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(XV, 364 pages)
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0817662529
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: 3034883145
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: 3764362529
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: 9780817662523
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: 9783034883146
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: 9783764362522
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Foreword, by P.C. Stern --; Reader's Guide and Acknowledgements --; Transformation toward Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary, Actor-Oriented Perspective --; Switzerland's Environmental and Sustainability Policies --; Theoretical Framework --; Atypology of Tools for Building Sustainability Strategies --; Psycolocical Principles of Inducing Behaviour Change --; Empirical Studies on Selected Istruments and Instrument COndition --; Between Efficiency and Sufficiency. The Optimal Combination of Policy Instruments in the Mobility Sector towards Sustainable Development --; Voluntary COllective Action in Neighborhood Slow-Down --; Using Communication and Diffusion Instruments --; Taxation of Residential Energy Use --; The Acceptance of Instruments among Energy Policy Key Players --; Solar and Alternative Power Supply: An Instrument towards Ecologically Sound Power Consumption? --; Strategic Networking and Implementation of Communication and Diffusion Instruments to Develop Local Energy Policies --; Economic Instruments for Wastewater Disposal --; A lawyer's Comment on Maller and Kramer --; Mobilising Resources for More Sustainable Lifestyles: Views of Households and Local Authorities --; A lawyer's Comment on Bruppacher and Utli-Beer --; Possibilities and Limits of Environmentally Responsible Action as Perceived by Participants in the Household EcoTeam Programme --; Conclusions --; Suggestions for Designing Policy Strategies for Sustainable Development --; Inter and Transdisciplinary Processes --; Experience and Lessons Learnt --; List of Authors --; List of Projects.
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Traditionally, environmental policy in most countries is based on command and control and - to a lesser extent - on the more modern economic instruments. Today, there is a strong need for complementing this traditional policy with a set of approaches that rely on communication and informal influence to stimulate voluntary and cooperative action. The comprehensive and analytical description of these approaches and the related instruments presented in this book extend environmental policy thinking by in-depth treatment of tools for communication and diffusion, collaborative agreements, as well as service and infrastructure instruments. The different types of approaches and instruments are described in detail from an actor-oriented perspective. Special emphasis is put on new approaches based on principles of social and behavioural psychology. To date, these have barely been discussed in relation to conventional instruments. Several empirical studies carried out in Switzerland illuminate selected aspects ...
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Life sciences.
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Medicine.
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HC400.E5E358 2001
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Heinz Gutscher
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Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz
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