New Dynamics for Europe: Reaping the Benefits of Socio-ecological Transition – Part I: Synthesis. WWWforEurope Deliverable
No. 11
WWWforEurope: Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe, March 2016, 152 pages
Commissioned by: AK für Wien – Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH – Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research – OeAD-GmbH – European Commission, Framework Programme
The WWWforEurope research project proposes a comprehensive strategy to set Europe on a dynamic path to a socio-ecological
transition. The proposed strategy is medium to long-term in nature; solving short-run problems in specific countries may require
some policy instruments not covered, but should nevertheless take this longer view into account. WWWforEurope respects different
starting positions and heterogeneous preferences, and also acknowledges the high degree of uncertainty deriving from new challenges
and disruptive technological innovations. The strategy cannot serve as a blueprint for solving all current and future problems
or for exploiting all new opportunities, but it initially aims to develop guiding principles, then drivers of change and,
last but not least, facilitators of strategy implementation which, combined, should support transition under very different
real-world circumstances. The first part of this report is an overarching synthesis, the second one reports on the results
of different models and presents research findings in the five areas which were inputs for the synthesis.
Keywords:TP_Nachhaltigkeit_Nachhaltigkeit
Research group:Macroeconomics and Public Finance – Labour Economics, Income and Social Security – Industrial, Innovation and International Economics – Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis – Climate, Environmental and Resource Economics