On The Political Economy Of Environmental Policy

Author : Melody Hessing,Michael Howlett
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 0774806141

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Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy by Melody Hessing,Michael Howlett Pdf

This book examines policy-making in one of the most significant areasof activity in the Canadian economy -- natural resources and theenvironment. It discusses the evolution of resource policies from theearly era of exploitation to the present era of resource andenvironmental management. Using an integrated political economy andpolicy perspective, the book provides an analytic framework from whichthe foundation of ideological perspectives, administrative structures,and substantive issues are explored. The integration of social scienceperspectives and the combination of theoretical and empirical work makethis innovative book one of the most comprehensive analyses of Canadiannatural resource and environmental policy to date.

Author : James K. Boyce
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843766971

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The Political Economy of the Environment by James K. Boyce Pdf

Professor Boyce s work is an excellent example of how ecological economics can be done in an objective, evidence-based approach that can put issues on the agenda in a manner where they will be taken seriously by other scholars. . . This is a well-written and provocative book that should encourage further research on all these important issues. David I. Stern, International Journal of Social Economics This succinct and sometimes provocative book sets out to document, quantify and explain the ways in which inequalities of wealth and power create an uneven apportionment of environmental costs across the world. It offers a combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence to support the author s central contention that greater democratisation and changes in society s relationship with nature are paramount for achieving the dual goals of environmental protection and sustainable development. . . This book is immensely well written. . . makes for a fascinating read. Ian Bailey, European Spatial Research and Policy Economic activities that degrade the environment do not simply pit humans against nature. They also pit some humans against others. Some benefit from these activities; others bear net costs from pollution and resource depletion. In a provocative and original analysis, James K. Boyce examines the dynamics of environmental degradation in terms of the balances of power between the winners and the losers. He provides evidence that inequalities of power and wealth affect not only the distribution of environmental costs, but also their overall magnitude: greater inequalities result in more environmental degradation. Democratization movement toward a more equitable distribution of power therefore is not only a worthwhile objective in its own right, but also an important means toward the social goals of environmental protection and sustainable development. Combining theoretical analysis with empirical evidence from around the world, James K. Boyce demonstrates that changes in our relationship with nature ultimately require changes in our relationships with each other. He maintains that a more democratic and environmentally sustainable future is possible, but warns that it is not inevitable. This book will appeal to students, scholars, policymakers and other readers interested in the environment, economics and public policy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1028646293

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On the Political Economy of Environmental Policy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bouwe R. Dijkstra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024331287

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The Political Economy of Environmental Policy by Bouwe R. Dijkstra Pdf

This work asks why market instruments have not been used to their full potential in environmental policy. It uses a public choice perspective to analyse the political economy of environmental policy, emphasising the role of interest groups which have blocked the introduction of market instruments.

Author : Roger D. Congleton
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472106023

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The Political Economy of Environmental Protection by Roger D. Congleton Pdf

Examines the political and economic factors that generate environmental policy

Author : Ken J. Walker
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 086840070X

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The Political Economy of Environmental Policy by Ken J. Walker Pdf

This is the first Australian textbook in the important and growing field of environmental politics and policy. Using the management of the Murray-Darling Basin as a central case-study, The Political Economy of Environmental Policy shows how and why environmental problems generate political conflict. It also brings relevant perspectives from political theory to bear on environmental issues, emphasizing in particular their collective nature, and the uses of social choice and game theory in understanding them. It underlines the dilemmas faced by decision makers and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of modern decision theories when applied human impacts on the natural environment. This is a textbook intended for students commencing the study of environmental policy or politics at first year university or higher.

Author : Simon Dietz,Jonathan Michie,Christine Oughton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136823985

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Political Economy of the Environment by Simon Dietz,Jonathan Michie,Christine Oughton Pdf

This book is the culmination of several years work by a group of academics, policy-makers and other professionals looking to understand how alternative economic thinking – and indeed thinking from quite different social-scientific disciplines – could enhance the mainstream economic approach to environmental and natural-resource problems. Of the editors, Dietz comes from the mainstream economics tradition, while Michie and Oughton draw explicitly on institutional and evolutionary economics. The various authors represent a range of disciplinary backgrounds and approaches. This book draws on the strengths of each and all of these approaches to analyse environmental issues and what can be done to tackle these through corporate and public policy. The book argues that the need for an inter-disciplinary approach. Two themes which emerge repeatedly throughout the book are the need for an interdisciplinary theory of technological change, and the need for a similarly interdisciplinary approach to the study of human behaviour and how it influences both production and consumption choices. The two themes are of course related. Resolving environmental questions requires an understanding of their nature, of their causes and, to the extent that they are anthropogenic, of how to change human behaviour. These fundamental issues are the focus of the four chapters that form Part 1 of this volume. The remainder of the volume develops them in more detail. .

Author : Melody Hessing,Michael Howlett,Tracy Summerville
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780774840989

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Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, 2nd ed. by Melody Hessing,Michael Howlett,Tracy Summerville Pdf

This book provides an analytic framework from which the foundation of ideological perspectives, administrative structures, and substantive issues are explored. Departing from traditional approaches that emphasize a single discipline or perspective, it offers an interdisciplinary framework with which to think through ecological, political, economic, and social issues. It also provides a multi-stage analysis of policy making from agenda setting through the evaluation process. The integration of social science perspectives and the combination of theoretical and empirical work make this innovative book one of the most comprehensive analyses of Canadian natural resource and environmental policy to date.

Author : Horst Siebert,Ariane Berthoin Antal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015004869296

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The Political Economy of Environmental Protection by Horst Siebert,Ariane Berthoin Antal Pdf

Author : George A. Gonzalez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742510859

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Corporate Power and the Environment by George A. Gonzalez Pdf

Environmental policy is broadly viewed as an oasis of democracy, unspoiled by crass capitalism and undominated by corporate interests. This book counters that view. The focus of Corporate Power and the Environment is on how U.S. economic elites--corporate decisionmakers and other individuals of substantial wealth--shape the content and implementation of U.S. environmental policy to their economic and political benefit. The author uses the management of the national forests and national parks, as well as wilderness preservation policies and federal clean air policies, as case studies to show corporate power in action in even the purest of policy arenas. Visit our Web site for sample chapters!

Author : Éloi Laurent,Klara Zwickl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000463002

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The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment by Éloi Laurent,Klara Zwickl Pdf

Featuring a stellar international cast list of leading and cutting-edge scholars, The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment presents the state of the art of the discipline that considers ecological issues and crises from a political economy perspective. This collective volume sheds new light on the effect of economic and power inequality on environmental dynamics and, conversely, on the economic and social impact of environmental dynamics. The chapters gathered in this handbook make four original contributions to the field of political economy of the environment. First, they revisit essential concepts and methods of environmental economics in the light of their political economy. Second, they introduce readers to recent theoretical and empirical advances in key issues of political economy of the environment with a special focus on the relationship between inequality and environmental degradation, a nexus that has dramatically come into focus with the COVID crisis. Third, the authors of this handbook open the field to its critical global and regional dimensions: global issues, such as the environmental justice movement and inequality and climate change as well as regional issues such as agriculture systems, air pollution, natural resources appropriation and urban sustainability. Fourth and finally, the work shows how novel analysis can translate into new forms of public policy that require institutional reform and new policy tools. Ecosystems preservation, international climate negotiations and climate mitigation policies all have a strong distributional dimension that chapters point to. Pressing environmental policy such as carbon pricing and low-carbon and energy transitions entail numerous social issues that also need to be accounted for with new analytical and technological tools. This handbook will be an invaluable reference, research and teaching tool for anyone interested in political economy approaches to environmental issues and ecological crises.

Author : Thomas Sterner,Jessica Coria
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Environmental economics
ISBN : 1783473371

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The Economics of Environmental Policy by Thomas Sterner,Jessica Coria Pdf

Environmental Policy is an increasingly important subject as we enter an era where environmental issues are affecting all walks of life. This informative Research Review provides a guide through the behavioral and political foundations of environmental economic policy. It discusses articles which give an in-depth view of the current economic discipline whilst also looking at research from other social and behavioral sciences. Students and scholars as well as environmental policy makers will find this an essential tool to navigate the political and behavioural issues that we have to understand in order to resolve some of the biggest political issues of our time.

Author : Max Koch,Oksana Mont
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317407423

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Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare by Max Koch,Oksana Mont Pdf

Welfare is commonly conceptualized in socio-economic terms of equity, highlighting distributive issues within growing economies. While GDP, income growth and rising material standards of living are normally not questioned as priorities in welfare theories and policy making, there is growing evidence that Western welfare standards are not generalizable to the rest of the planet if environmental concerns, such as resource depletion or climate change, are considered. Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare raises the issue of what is required to make welfare societies ecologically sustainable. Consisting of three parts, this book regards the current financial, economic and political crisis in welfare state institutions and addresses methodological, theoretical and wider conceptual issues in integrating sustainability. Furthermore, this text is concerned with the main institutional obstacles to the achievement of sustainable welfare and wellbeing, and how these may feasibly be overcome. How can researchers assist policymakers in promoting synergy between economic, social and environmental policies conducive to globally sustainable welfare systems? Co-authored by a variety of cross-disciplinary contributors, a diversity of research perspectives and methods is reflected in a unique mixture of conceptual chapters, historical analysis of different societal sectors, and case studies of several EU countries, China and the US. This book is well suited for those who are interested in and study welfare, ecological economics and political economy.

Author : Spencer Banzhaf
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804782692

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The Political Economy of Environmental Justice by Spencer Banzhaf Pdf

The environmental justice literature convincingly shows that poor people and minorities live in more polluted neighborhoods than do other groups. These findings have sparked a broad activist movement, numerous local lawsuits, and several federal policy reforms. Despite the importance of environmental justice, the topic has received little attention from economists. And yet, economists have much to contribute, as several explanations for the correlation between pollution and marginalized citizens rely on market mechanisms. Understanding the role of these mechanisms is crucial to designing policy remedies, for each lends itself to a different interpretation to the locus of injustices. Moreover, the different mechanisms have varied implications for the efficacy of policy responses—and who gains and loses from them. In the first book-length examination of environmental justice from the perspective of economics, a cast of top contributors evaluates why underprivileged citizens are overexposed to toxic environments and what policy can do to help. While the text engages economic methods, it is written for an interdisciplinary audience.

Author : Friedrich Schneider,Andrea Kollmann,Johannes Reichl
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262029247

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Political Economy and Instruments of Environmental Politics by Friedrich Schneider,Andrea Kollmann,Johannes Reichl Pdf

Economists have long argued that market-based instruments such as, environmental taxes, and emission trading systems, are the superior way to offset the negative externalities of any kind of economic activities. Yet, whether the effects of using these instruments are sufficient, whether they are actually used efficiently, and especially which factors influence their effectiveness is subject to a lively debate. It is the ultimate task of research to identify existing barriers among economic agents so as to gain valuable insight into how to overcome them. There still is much work to be done when it comes to evaluating the effectiveness of policy instruments with regard to the achievement of environmental targets. This work examines this topic.