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Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices

ISBN: 978-0-631-22968-1

March 2002

Wiley-Blackwell

304 pages

Description

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.

About the Author

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.

Features

  • offers a comprehensive analysis of the ethical problems associated with basing environmental policy on economic analysis;

  • offers practical advice for policy makers by seeking to clarify and defend the ethical foundations of environmental economics ;

  • examines what lessons environmental economics should draw from the criticism;

  • this contribution is all the more important because the problem has not been extensively studied.