Environmental Assessment of Socioeconomic Systems

Neglect of the relation between the socio-economic system and its natural environment has had detrimental consequences in the past, for example - the pollution of the natural environment (water, air and soil) by producing, using and consuming the products of our industrialized economy, - the forseea...

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Other Authors: Burkhardt, D. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1978, 1978
Edition:1st ed. 1978
Series:II Systems Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a Session I Methodology: Planning -- Systematic Distortion in Planning and Assessment -- Planning Sociotechnical Systems -- Demo-Economic Policy Simulations for Belgium -- Socio-Economic Systems, Urban Growth and Settlement Patterns (The Case of Turkey) -- Session II Methodology: Prediction -- Some Future Uses of Analytic Forecasting -- The Development of Policy-Sensitive Models -- Intuitive Prediction of Growth -- Models for Prediction under Conditions of Interaction -- Session III Methodology: Assessment -- Universal Checklists in the Concept of “Impact Trees” -- Problems with People, Decision, Conflict, Language and Measurement -- Long-Term Policy Assessment of Energy/Environment Systems: A Conceptual and Methodological Framework -- Economic and Environmental Assessment of a Water Quality Management System (River Neckar) -- Behavior Settings: The Building Blocks of Social Systems -- Session IV Case Studies: Assessment of Technological Systems --  
505 0 |a Responses to Changing Urban Systems: An Analysis of Public Education -- Session VI Case Studies: Assessment of Social Impact -- Environment and Energy on the Texas Gulf Coast: An Economic Evaluation Model of Alternative Policies -- Environmental Pollution and Its Social Impact -- Social Perception of Industrial Odors -- Impact Assessment and Participation: Case Studies on Nuclear Power Siting in West Germany -- Environmental Planning and Social Response at the Strategy Level -- Register of Names 
505 0 |a Government Regulation and Rail Safety -- Towards a Social Psychology of the Traffic Environment -- Control Methodology of the U.K. Road Traffic System -- Traffic Policing, Effectiveness Measurement and Resource Allocation -- A Suggested Framework for Evaluating the Assessment of a Technological System -- Assessment of Alternative Energy/Environment Futures: A Comparative Case Study of Wisconsin (USA), the German Democratic Republic, and Rhone-Alpes (France) -- Session V Case Studies: Assessment of Social Systems -- The Distribution of Environmental Quality: Some Canadian Evidence -- Social Stability Analysis — Can Carrying Capacity Provide an Answer to Public Policy in Canada? -- Environmental Quality Change in Several Socio-Economic Contexts in France: 1970 – 1995 -- Environmental Control: A Methodology for Planning Change in Public Housing.-Environment and Public Policy in the United States: A Diffusion Analysis --  
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520 |a Neglect of the relation between the socio-economic system and its natural environment has had detrimental consequences in the past, for example - the pollution of the natural environment (water, air and soil) by producing, using and consuming the products of our industrialized economy, - the forseeable exhaustion of natural resources by continuing the increase of industrial production. Most of the recent activities, both in research and in adminis­ tration, against these impacts have been technically oriented, with the aim of stimulating and introducing new technologies of produc­ tion and new products to diminish the environmental pollution. But these efforts, which are of course necessary, cannot be successful in approaching the aim - which should and must in the long-term view be defined as the development of society in balance with the natural environment. Therefore, in addition to an assess­ ment of technologies, emphasis should be put on an assessment of socio-economic systems. On di~~erent levels, individual and social preferences determine quantities and qualities of production and consumption using economical values, e.g., market prices as regula­ tors. Following this argumentation, an environment assessment of activities against pollution has especially to consider the social response to environmental impacts. Of course, this topic must be a subject of interdisciplinary research. The challenge concerned in this context is to increase the knowledge of the relationship between social, economic and tech­ nical subsets