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| Preface |
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| Foreword |
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PART I Sustainability and time |
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1 Different approaches to sustainability policy |
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3 | (13) |
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1.2 Academia and sustainability policy |
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1.3 Persistence as an expression of the time inherent to things |
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1.4 The time for action: political judgement |
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1.5 The conceptual framework of stocks as a heuristic for sustainability policy: themes and structure of the book |
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12 | (4) |
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2 Sustainability: theory and policy |
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2.1 Sustainable development: nice sounding but meaningless or a sound strategy for future-oriented policy making? |
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2.2 The origin of the concept of sustainability |
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2.3 The philosophical debate about sustainability |
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19 | (6) |
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2.4 Operationalising sustainability |
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25 | (2) |
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2.5 Sustainability policy and the concept of stocks: shortcomings and ways to ameliorate them |
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27 | (4) |
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PART II The conceptual framework of stocks |
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3 The perspective of stocks |
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3.1 Origins of the concept of stock and its German translation Bestand |
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3.2 Aim of the conceptual framework of stocks |
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3.3 Framing the problem, using a systemic approach and adopting a stocks perspective |
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36 | (7) |
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4.1 Definitional approach |
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4.2 Time horizon and timescale under consideration |
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43 | (1) |
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4.4 An equivalent definition of persistence |
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4.5 Examples of material stocks |
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48 | (1) |
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4.6 Reasons for the persistence of material stocks |
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49 | (1) |
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4.7 Empirical information about stocks |
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50 | (3) |
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5 Immaterial stocks and institutions |
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5.1 What are immaterial stocks? |
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5.2 The observability of immaterial stocks |
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5.3 Behaviour and behavioural patterns |
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5.4 Behavioural patterns and understanding actions |
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5.5 Behavioural patterns, regularity and rule |
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5.6 Rules and the study of rules: theories of institutions |
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5.7 On the connection between institutions and other immaterial stocks |
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6 The persistence of institutions |
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6.1 Two theoretical approaches to understanding the persistence and changeability of institutions |
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68 | (1) |
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6.2 Institutional economics and the issue of persistence |
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6.3 Arnold Gehlen's philosophical theory of institutions and the question of persistence |
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6.4 The legitimacy of institutions as a factor in their persistence |
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6.5 The stocks perspective in relation to institutions |
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7.2 Knowledge, science and politics |
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7.3 Difficulties associated with `scientific knowledge' |
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103 | (2) |
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7.5 Practical knowledge and judgement |
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7.6 Characterising judgement |
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7.7 Judgement and science |
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7.8 Judgement in politics and sustainability policy |
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8 Time and the practical dimension of the concept of stock |
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119 | (18) |
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8.2 Theoretical and practical dimensions of the concept of stock |
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120 | (1) |
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8.4 A sense of time: two examples |
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8.5 Conclusion: the stocks framework and judgement |
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PART III Applying the stocks framework |
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9 Shaping institutional change in the course of contamination management in Saxony-Anhalt |
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9.2 The problem of inherited contamination in eastern Germany |
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9.3 Exemption from liability for inherited contamination in Saxony-Anhalt |
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9.5 Summary: the importance of a sense of time |
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10 Ways of achieving sustainable land use in Germany: a stocks-based analysis |
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10.1 The German government's sustainability target |
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10.2 Past development trends in land dedicated to human settlements and transport infrastructure |
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155 | (3) |
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10.3 Factors influencing the development of land use |
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158 | (8) |
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10.4 Discovering windows of opportunity for land use governance |
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170 | (5) |
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PART IV The art of long-term thinking |
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11 The stocks framework as a heuristic for sustainability policies |
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11.1 The stocks framework as a heuristic |
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177 | (1) |
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11.2 A reminder: the core elements of the stocks framework |
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11.3 Weaving together a heuristic for sustainability policies |
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11.4 Possibilities and limitations of the heuristic |
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12 Applying the heuristic: key elements of a sustainable inland shipping policy |
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12.1 Applying the heuristic to inland shipping policy |
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12.2 How can politicians manage inland shipping in Germany in a sustainable way? |
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202 | (15) |
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13 Stocks: a schooling in long-term thinking |
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219 | (4) |
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13.1 Begin with things as they are |
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219 | (1) |
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220 | (1) |
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13.3 Judgement and developing a `sense of what is essential' |
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221 | (1) |
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13.4 The art of long-term thinking |
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222 | (1) |
| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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| Persons Index |
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