International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 15 Issue 3/4

Pitfalls in Environmental Policy

Jacob J. Krabbe

“Environmental Policy in a Market Economy” was the theme of a congress recently organised in Wageningen, the Netherlands. At this meeting a number of participants elaborated on…

Use of Natural Resources in a Market Economy: Ethical and Legal Perspectives

Steven E. Kraft

The use of natural resources and the policy environment surrounding this use are informed by concepts derived from economic theory, extant technology, past uses, common law…

Fundamentals for a Theory of Policy Instruments

Hans Bressers, Pieter‐Jan Klok

Scientific theories on the effects of various policy instruments are often formulated without accounting for the circumstances under which these instruments are applied. Also the…

New Instruments for Environmental Policy: A Perspective

Gjalt Huppes

In the post‐war years of fast economic growth extensive government regulations to curb growing environmental problems were developed in most Western countries. This regulative…

Innovation and Pollution Control

Andries Nentjes, Doede Wiersma

Environmental resources and human knowledge are the ultimate foundations on which human welfare is based. The impact of technical knowledge is well researched. Denison, for…

The Problem of Optimal Exploitation of Natural Resources: The Need for Ecological Limiting Conditions

Frank Dietz, Jan van der Straaten

The processes of production and consumption as developed by man affect the availability of natural resources for the subsequent processes of production and consumption. The effect…

The Need for a Steady State Economy

Willem J.M. Heijman

Until recently, general economic theory has hardly paid any attention to the production factor “nature”. Human economy has been characterised as a closed system, in which all…

Ecologically Sustainable Economic Development: Key Issues for Strategic Environmental Management

Peter Nijkamp, Frits Soeteman

The issue of a balanced development of our earth has been an intriguing research and policy question for several decades. The environmental problems emerging in the 1960s and…

Henry George's Theory and an Application to Industrial Siting

Jürgen G. Backhaus, Jacob J. Krabbe

In this essay we set out to show that Henry George's basic approach to economic thinking is very timely in the light of some pressing problems currently experienced by Western…