Different ways to integrate environmental values into car taxation policy

• Green car taxation – an introductory remark • Perspectives on environmental policy making The concepts of sustainable development and ecological modernisation in comparison • “Making transport pay its true costs” – throwing out the baby with the bathtub? A question of market failures Confronting the motorist with the true costs of transportation Calculating the monetary value of externalities Externality taxation in action Evaluating the “true costs” approach • “Sustainable transport taxation” – loosing sight of a daily life? A question of ecological limits and distributional issues Changing fundamental structures of society The crucial role of participatory approaches in decision-making Inventing new decision-making instruments Evaluating the sustainability approach • “Situated action in a global perspective” – suggesting a synthesis A characterisation of the two approaches Suggesting a synthesis