Bromley / Paavola Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy

Contested Choices
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69292-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bromley, Daniel W.

Paavola, Jouni

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.
List of Tables.
List of Contributors.
Preface.
Part I: Introduction.
1. Contested Choices. (Jouni Paavola and Daniel W. Bromley).
Part II: Economics, Ethics, and Policy Choices.
2. Are Choices Trade-offs? (Alan Holland).
3. The Ignorance Argument: What Must We Know to Be Fair to theFuture? (Bryan Norton).
4. Benefit-Cost Considerations Should Be Decisive When There isNothing More Important at Stake. (Alan Randall).
5. Environmental Policy as the Process of Reasonable Valuing.(Juha Hiedanpaa and Daniel W. Bromley).
Part III: Ethical Concerns and Policy Goals.
6. Rethinking the Choice and Performance of EnvironmentalPolicies. (Jouni Paavola).
7. What to Do with Inconsistent, Non-Welfaristic and UndevelopedPreferences? (Olof Johansson-Stenman).
8. Awkward Choices: Economics and Nature Conservation. (NickHanley and Jason Shogren).
Part IV: Ethical Dimensions of Policy Consequences.
9. All Policy Instruments Require A Moral Choice as to WhoseInterests Count. (Allan Schmid).
10. Efficient or Fair: Ethical Paradoxes in EnvironmentalPolicy. (Arild Vatn).
11. Trading with the Enemy: Examining North-South Perspectivesin the Climate Change Debate. (Bhaskar Vira).
12. Social Costs and Sustainability. (Martin O'Connor).
Part V: Ethics in Aaction: Emperical Analysis.
13. Empirical Signs of Ethical Concern in Economic Valuation ofthe Environment. (Clive Spash).
14. Motivating Existence Values: The Many and Varied Sources ofthe Stated WTP for Endangered Species. (Andreas Kontoleon andTimothy Swanson).
15. Environmental and Ethical Dimensions of the Provision of aBasic Need: Water and Sanitation Services in East Africa. (NickJohnstone , John Thompson , Munguti Katui-Katua , Mark Mujwajuzi ,James Tumwine , Elizabeth Wood , and Ina Porras).
Part VI: Conclusions.
16. Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy. (Daniel W.Bromley and Jouni Paavola).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel W. Bromley is Anderson-Bascom Professor of AppliedEconomics in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economicsat the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has written and editednumerous books including Sustaining Development (1999),The Handbook of Environmental Economics (1995), Makingthe Commons Work (1992), Environment and Economy (1991),and Economic Interests and Institutions (1989). He is alsothe editor of the journal Land Economics, the oldest and mostdistinguished international journal in environmental and naturalresources economics.
Jouni Paavola is a Senior Research Associate at theCentre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment(CSERGE) at the University of East Anglia and an Associate Fellowat the Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society(OCEES), Mansfield College, Oxford, UK. He has authored a number ofpublications on economics, ethics, and history of environmentalpolicy.