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Economics, ethics, and environmental policy : contested choices / edited by Daniel W. Bromley and Jouni Paavola.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental economics--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Environmental economics.
- Environmental policy--Economic aspects.
- Environmental policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices offers a comprehensive analysis of the ethical problems associated with basing environmental policy on economic analysis, and ways to overcome these problems.
- Contents:
- Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; Part I Introduction; 1 Contested Choices; Part II Economics,Ethics,and Policy Choices; 2 Are Choices Tradeoffs?; 3 The Ignorance Argument:What Must We Know to be Fair to the Future?; 4 Benefit -Cost Considerations Should be Decisive When There is Nothing More Important at Stake; 5 Environmental Policy as a Process of Reasonable Valuing; Part III Ethical Concerns and Policy Goals; 6 Rethinking the Choice and Performance of Environmental Policies
- 7 What Should We Do with Inconsistent,Nonwelfaristic,and Undeveloped Preferences? 8 Awkward Choices:Economics and Nature Conservation; Part IV Ethical Dimensions of Policy Consequences; 9 All Environmental Policy Instruments Require a Moral Choice as to Whose Interests Count; 10 Efficient or Fair:Ethical Paradoxes in Environmental Policy; 11 Trading with the Enemy?Examining North -South Perspectives in the Climate Change Debate; 12 Social Costs and Sustainability; Part V Ethics in Action:Empirical Analyses; 13 Empirical Signs of Ethical Concern in Economic Valuation of the Environment
- 14 Motivating Existence Values:The Many and Varied Sources of the Stated WTP for Endangered Species15 Environmental and Ethical Dimensions of the Provision of a Basic Need:Water and Sanitation Services in East Africa; Part VI Conclusions; 16 Economics,Ethics,and Environmental Policy; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- OCLC:
- 437214080
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