Markets, Deliberation and Environment

ISBN-13: 9780415397124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 241 str.

John O'Neill

Opis

What is the source of our environmental problems? Why is there in modern societies a persistent tendency to environmental damage? From within neoclassical economic theory there is a straightforward answer to those questions: it is because environmental goods and harms are unpriced. They come free. This position runs up against a view which runs in entirely the opposite direction, that our environmental problems have their source not in a failure to apply market norms rigorously enough, but in the very spread of these market mechanisms and norms. The source of environmental problems lies in part in the spread of markets both in real geographical terms across the globe and through the introduction of markets mechanisms and norms into spheres of life that previously have been protected from markets. In this book, John O'Neill conducts a thorough examination of these two opposing viewpoints covering a discussion of the ethical boundaries of markets, the role of private property rights in environmental protection, the nature of sustainability and the valuation of goods over time. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying courses in ecological and environmental economics.

Spis treści

Introduction: Globalization and the Environment  Part 1: Environmental Goods and the Limits of the Market  1: Markets and the Environment: The Solution is the Problem  2. Managing Without Prices: On the Monetary Valuation of Biodiversity  3. Property, Care and Environment  4: Public Choice, Institutional Economics, Environmental Goods  Part 2: Time, Community, Equality  5. Time, Narrative and Environmental Politics  6. Sustainability: Ethics, Politics and the Environment  Part 3: Bringing Environmentalism in from the Wilderness  7. Wilderness, Cultivation and Appropriation  8. The Good Life Below the Snowline  Part 4: Deliberation and its Discontents  9: Deliberation, Power and Voice  10: The Rhetoric of Deliberation  11: Representing People, Representing Nature, Representing the World  12: The Political Economy of Deliberation

O autorze

John O'Neill