Environmental / Energy Law

Complexity Economics for Environmental Governance

By Jean-Francois Mercure
Cambridge University Press February 2025

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ISBN-13
9781108451116
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
February 2025
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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In Complexity Economics for Environmental Governance, Jean-François Mercure reframes environmental policy and provides a rigorous methodology necessary to tackle the complexity of environmental policy and the transition to sustainability. The book offers a detailed account of the deficiencies of environmental economics and then develops a theory of innovation and macroeconomics based on complexity theory. It also develops a new foundation for evidence-based policy-making using a Risk-Opportunity Analysis applied to the sustainability transition. This multidisciplinary work was developed in partnership with prominent natural scientists and economists as well as active policy-makers with the aim to revolutionize thinking in the face of the full complexity of the sustainability transition, and to show how it can best be governed to minimize its distributional impacts. The book should be read by academics and policy-makers seeking new ways to think about environmental policy-making.

Table of Contents

Part I. The Current State of Knowledge:
1. Introducing Complex Environmental Economics
2. Complexity Heterogeneity, and Uncertainty
3. Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Paradigms
4. Philosophies of Science and the Policy Cycle

Part II. A Positive Theory for Complexity Economics:
5. Concepts of Complexity for Economics
6. Fundamental Uncertainty
7. Micro-Foundations for Consumer Theory
8. Micro-foundations for a Theory of Innovation
9. The Nature of Money
10. Micro-Foundations for Credit Creation
11. A Model for Growth and Creative Destruction

Part III. Applied Complexity Economics for Environmental Governance:
12. Risk-Opportunity Analysis
13. Science & Policy for the Energy-Water-Food Nexus
14. Technology Dynamics in a Low-Carbon Transition
15. Structural Change in a Low-Carbon Transition
16. Conclusion and Outlook
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