Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy : Contested Choices

Daniel W. Bromley is Anderson-Bascom Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has written and edited numerous books including Sustaining Development (1999), The Handbook of Environmental Economics (1995), Making the Commons Work (1992), Environment and Economy (1991), and Economic Interests and Institutions (1989). He is also the editor of the journal Land Economics, the oldest and most distinguished international journal in environmental and natural resources economics. Jouni Paavola is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) at the University of East Anglia and an Associate Fellow at the Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society (OCEES), Mansfield College, Oxford, UK. He has authored a number of publications on economics, ethics, and history of environmental policy.

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Year of publication:	2008 ; 1st ed.
Authors:	Bromley, Daniel W.
Other Persons:	Paavola, Jouni (contributor)
Publisher:	Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Subject:	Umweltpolitik \| Environmental policy \| Umweltökonomik \| Environmental economics \| Ethik \| Ethics \| Umweltökonomie
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	1 online resource (306 pages)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatzsammlung
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. 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 Bene .t -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 Ef .cient 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;
ISBN:	978-0-470-69292-9 ; 978-0-631-22968-1 ; 978-0-631-22969-8
Classification:	Volkswirtschaftliche Ressourcen, Umweltökonomie ; Umweltpolitik
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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