Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy : Contested Choices.

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Titles

• Full Title: Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy : Contested Choices.

Notes

• 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 Deba.
• English.

Identifiers

• Isbns: 9780470692929; 0470692928; 9780631229681; 063122968X; 0631229698; 9780631229698; 1281309664; 9781281309662; 9786611309664; 6611309667; 0470693673; 9780470693674
• Oclc Number: (OCoLC)437214080

Publication Statement

• Place: Chichester
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Date: 2008

Physical Description

• Extent: 1 online resource (306 pages)

Table Of Contents

• 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 Deba.

Summary

• 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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