Economy environment and technology : a socioeconomic approach / edited by Beat Bürgenmeier.

List of tables and figures, ix -- Introduction, 3 -- Part I. The behavioral sciences facing environmental protection -- 1. Estimating nonuse values requires interdisciplinary research / Gardner Brown, 11 -- 2. Understanding environmental problems: a sociological perspective / Riley E. Dunlap, Loren A. Lutzenhiser, and Eugene A. Rosa, 27 -- 3. Recycling consumer waste: a behavioral science approach to environmental protection policy / John Thegersen, 51 -- Part II. Bioeconomics -- 4. New approaches in ecological economics: energy analysis and the socioeconomic elements of environmental economics / Sylvie Faucheux, 77 -- 5. Economic-ethical and bioeconomic elements of "practical" economics / Eberhard K. Seifert, 107 -- Part III. Sustainable development -- 6. Sustainable development and the economic growth debate / Paul Ekins, 121 -- 7 The physical and biological environment-the socioeconomy of sustainable development / Andrea Baranzini and Gonzague Pillet, 139 -- Part IV. The policy implication -- 8. Nearly uncontrollable pollution of an agrarian system: a socioeconomic case study / Jean-Louis Le Moigne and Magali Orillard, 165 -- 9. Environmental policy: beyond the economic dimension / Beat Burgenmeier, 175 -- 10. The challenge of economics to political modernity: some views on the limits of collective action and power / Charles Roig, 191 -- Index, 209 -- Contributors, 217 -- About the editor, 219.