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UNINA9910819219003321 |
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Titolo |
Economics, ethics, and environmental policy : contested choices / / edited by Daniel W. Bromley and Jouni Paavola |
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Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2002 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (306 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BromleyDaniel W. <1940-> |
PaavolaJouni |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Environmental economics - Moral and ethical aspects |
Environmental policy - Economic aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Services in East Africa; Part VI Conclusions; 16 Economics,Ethics,and Environmental Policy; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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