Social Costs and Sustainability

1 Social Costs and Sustainability - An Overview.- SUBJECT AREA 1: GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE THEORETICAL RELEVANCE AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF SOCIAL COSTS.- 2 Externalities Studies: Why are the Numbers Different?.- 3 Have Recent Studies Rendered Environmental Externality Valuation Irrelevant?.- SUBJECT AREA 2: ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.- 4 Economic and Ecological Concepts of Sustainable Development: External Costs and Sustainability Indicators.- 5 Social Costs of Climate Change. Strong Sustainability and Social Costs.- 6 Pressure Indices and Relative Valuation of Environmental Damages.- 7 Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting.- SUBJECT AREA 3: NEW VALUATION STUDIES ON SOCIAL COSTS OF ENERGY.- 8 External Costs of Fossil Fuel Cycles.- 9 Quantifying the Risks of Nuclear Electric Energy.- 10 The External Costs of Wind Energy - and What They Mean for Energy Policy.- 11 External Costs and External Price Addings in the Swiss Energy Sector.- 12 The Magnitude of Electricity Externalities Through Time.- 13 Counting the Costs: Scientific Uncertainty and Valuation Perspective in EXMOD.- SUBJECT AREA 4: CONSIDERATION OF SOCIAL COSTS IN DECISION MAKING OF ENERGY UTILITIES.- 14 Least-Cost Planning - An Instrument for Minimization of Social Costs.- 15 Sustainability and the Valuation of Externalities from Electricity Generation in California.- 16 The Use of Externality Adders for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Electric Utility Resource Planning.- 17 Climate for Climate Change Actions in the U.S.: The New York Experience.- 18 Competitive Values of Electric Generation Plants in New York Based on Social Costs.- 19 A Canadian Utility's Experience in Implementing Sustainable Energy Development, Particularly through the Use of Full Cost Accounting.- 20 Environmental Externalities: Analysis and Advocacy.- SUBJECT AREA 5: SOCIAL COSTS OF TRANSPORTATION.- 21 External Costs of Transport in Germany.- 22 The True Cost of Road Transport in the United

Richard L. Ottinger is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law at Pace Law School in White Plains, New York, where he taught environmental law and was Dean from 1994-1999. He is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and Chair of its Climate and Energy Working Group. He served for 16 years in the U.S. Congress, chairing the House Subcommittee on Energy, Conservation and Power.