Constructing Meaningful Sustainability Indices.- A Framework for Indicators to Monitor the EU Sustainable Development Strategy.- Measuring Corporate Sustainability Performance and Its Impact on Corporate Financial Performance.- Impact Assessment and Sustainability.- Should Environmental Policy Discriminate Between Exposed and Sheltered Sectors?.- Ecological-Economic Models for Improving the Cost-Effectiveness of Biodiversity Conservation Policies.- Vision, Analysis, and Future Pathways in Transport Research.- Transportation and the Environment - Perspectives for Future Research.- Research Issues in Transport Economics: Dynamics, Integration, and Indirect Effects.- Traffic and Environment: Policy Maker's Response.- Liberalised Energy Markets - Do We Need Re-Regulation?.- Energy Markets - Research Issues and Policy Needs.- An Agenda for Energy Policy - An Element of Innovation Policy.- Energy Market Regulation: Impacts of EU Research.- Why Is Economic Theory Ignored in Environmental Policy Practice?.- On the Political Economy of Economic Policy Advice - With Applications of Environmental Policy.- Insights in Political Processes on the Ecological Tax Reform from a Ministerial Perspective.

Sustainable development, climate policy, biodiversity conservation - all these represent flash points at the intersection of environmental science, economics, and public policy. This volume offers a snapshot of environmental economic research on a range of policy-relevant problems. Academic contributions are complemented by the views of policy makers on environmental policy priorities, the usefulness of academic research for decision making, and the future of applied research.