Why environmental policies fail / Jan Laitos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laitos, Jan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law.

Environmental policy.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Human behavior.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This book is for those who are not just interested in the ways humans have harmfully altered their environment, but instead wish to learn why the many governmental policies in place to curb such behavior have been unsuccessful. Since humans began to exploit natural resources for their own economic ends, we have ignored a central principle: nature and humans are not separate, but are a unified, interconnected system in which neither is superior to the other. Policy must reflect this reality. We failed to follow this principle in exploiting natural capital without expecting to pay any price, and in hurriedly adopting environmental laws and policies that reflected how we wanted nature to work instead of how it does work. This study relies on more accurate models for how nature works and humans behave. These models suggest that environmental laws should be consistent with the laws of nature.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Prologue; Part I. Nature: Humans and their Environmental Surroundings: 1. The gardener and the sick garden; Part II. Nature: A History and Assessment of Environmental Policies: 2. Four troubled eras of environmental policies; 3. An assessment: environmental policies have failed; Part III. Why Environmental Policies Fail I: Faulty Assumptions behind Environmental Rules: 4. A false worldview; 5. Failed model #1: how nature works; 6. Failed model #2: how to value nature; 7. Failed model #3: how humans behave; Part IV. Why Environmental Policies Fail II: A Critique of Existing and Proposed Strategies: 8. A narrative of failed environmental strategies; Part V. Environmental Policy Must Obey the Fundamental Laws of Nature: 9. Nature and symmetry; 10. Toward a new legal alignment of humans and nature; Epilogue.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2017).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781316343326

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.