4 options
Information environmentalism : a governance framework for intellectual property rights / Robert Cunningham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cunningham, Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intellectual property.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd., 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Information Environmentalism applies four environmental analytical frameworks - ecology, 'the commons', public choice theory, and welfare economics - to the information environment. The book neatly captures the metaphorical relationship between the physical environment and the information environment by alluding to the environmental philosophy of 'social ecology' and the emergent informational discourse of 'cultural environmentalism'. The book aims to develop, refine and integrate the theoretical foundations of cultural environmentalism based on the Dewey premise that 'there is nothing so prac
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; 1. Introduction: [Enter Stage] Information environmentalism; PART I Welfare economics; 2. Information paradox and public goods; 3. Externalities and monopolies; PART II The commons; 4. Information commons; 5. Tragedy of (ignoring) the information semicommons; PART III Ecology; 6. The social ecology of information environmental governance; 7. Should the information commons have standing?; 8. Rational truths, reasonable arguments and rhetorical imagination; PART IV Public choice theory; 9. Public choice theory and social production
- 10. Constitutional economics and the separation of (economic) powerPART V Conclusion; 11. Control, alt, delete: Towards an information environmental governance framework; Notes; Glossary; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 cc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780857938442
- 0857938444
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.