Saving energy, growing jobs : How environmental protection promotes economic growth, profitability, innovation, and competition Autor Goldstein D.B. Fecha 2007 Fuente IUCN (ID: MON-080286) Editor | Lugar de publicación Bay Tree Publishing | California, USA Páginas 333 p. Tipo de documento Monografía/libro Idioma Inglés Campo de aplicación Internacional Materia Medio ambiente gen. Palabra clave Economiá y medio ambiente Resumen Contents Foreword by Senator Olympia Snowe Preface Acknowledgements Introduction The Case for Environmental Protection Organized Business Opposition to Environmental Protection The Influence of Myth in Environmental Policy Debates How to Use This Book SECTION I: Energy Efficiency and the Economy Chapter 1: The Critical Role of Energy Efficiency in the Economy Energy Use Reduction Opposition to Energy Efficiency Establish More Competitive Markets Chapter 2: Direct Success in Energy Efficiency Early Resistance to Energy Efficiency The Refrigerator Story Other Energy-Efficiency Opportunities How Far Can We Go with Efficiency? Chapter 3: Enhanced Innovation; Energy Efficiency’s Unexpected Success Nonenergy Benefits Innovation, Process Improvement, and Cost Reduction Overcoming Barriers to Innovation National Economic Development Policy and the Environment SECTION II: Environmental Protection, Economic Barriers, and Economic Development Chapter 4: Economic Fundamentalism; The Use of Economics as a Religion Rather than a Science What Is Economic Fundamentalism? How Economic Theory Serves as a Political Force How Critical Assumptions of Economic Theory are Violated in Practice The Need for Regulation How Markets Actually Work Chapter 5: Lessons from California’s Failed Experiment in "Free Markets" for Electricity The Road to Failure What Actually Happened; Myth vs. Reality The Consequences of the Restructuring Experiment The True Causes of the California Energy Crisis Chapter 6: How Markets Fail What Prevents Expected Results Market Barriers Market Failures Human Failures Institutional Failures: Trade Associations and the Politics of Environmental Protection Factors for Market Success SECTION III: The Politics of Environmentalism Chapter 7: Myths of the Anti-Environmentalists The Myth of Independent Objective Analysis The Myth about Environmentalists The Consequences of the Anti-Environmentalist Myth Chapter 8: Myths of the Environmentalists The Greedy Corporation Myth The Bad People Myth The Small is Beautiful Myth Chapter 9: Legitimate Concerns of Business and Environmental Interests Business’s Concerns About New Regulation Reasons Why Business Distrusts Environmentalists Environmentalists’ Concerns About Business The Need for Better Communication Chapter 10: What Truly Motivates Anti-Environmentalists A Story of Energy Efficiency and Global Warming The Influence of Economic and Ideological Incumbency Who Writes the Regulations Chapter 11: Well-Designed Environmental Policies Current Environmental Policies Future Environmental Policies Chapter 12: Where Do We Go from Here? Environmental Policy Promotes Economic Growth Current Barriers to Environmental Policies How to Transform the Political Debate Incentives and Regulation Appendix: Myths and Realities in California’s Experiment in Electricity Restructuring Notes Bibliography Index