Green Industrial Restructuring International Case Studies and Theore
Structural change in basic industries is usually interpreted as an autonomous economic process. Some authors claim that there is a tendency to use the "end of the era of materials", thus resulting in a decline of the basic industries. Such a process would
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Manfred Binder • Marti~ Janicke • Ulrich Petschow (Eds.)
Green Industrial Restructuring International Case Studies and Theoretical Interpretations With 96 Figures and 40 Tables
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EDITORS:
Manfred Binder Forschungsstelle fiir Umweltpolitik Ihnestrafie 22 14195 Berlin Professor Dr. Martin Janicke Forschungsstelle fUr Umweltpolitik Ihnestrafie 22 14195 Berlin Ulrich Petschow Institut fur Okologische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH Potsdamerstr. 105 10785 Berlin
ISBN 978-3-642-08689-2 library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Green industrial restructuring: international case studies and theoretica1 interpretations; with 40 tables I Manfred Binder: Martin Jiinicke; Ulrich Petschow. ISBN 978-3-642-08689-2 ISBN 978-3-662-04419-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-04419-3
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Preface
This book presents the major results of two research projects carried out in the years 1995-2000. Their common subject was the decline of dirty industries in industrial countries, the driving forces of this decline, and its social management. Such a decline is one of the major challenges to any strategy of sustainable development, since reductions in energy and materials consumption almost inevitably lead to intersectoral structural changes at the cost of industries which provide materials or energy. Unfortunately, the economic, social and political costs of such changes are rarely considered in the environmental debate, let alone properly addressed in environmental policy proposals. In the first project, financed by the German Science Foundation, the Environmental Policy Research Unit at the Free University Berlin (FFU) developed the analytical framework and the research design for case studies on declining dirty industries and analysed decreases in German steel, aluminium and chlorine produ
