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Environmental Principles and Policies An Interdisciplinary Introduction

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ISBN-10: 1844074048

ISBN-13: 9781844074044

Edition: 2006

Authors: Sharon Beder

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** Major new textbook on all aspects of environmental principles and policies by renowned author and lecturer Sharon Beder ** Critical and interdisciplinary approach to analysis of environmental problems, including social, equity and market-based perspectives, covering climate change, pollution, fisheries and water ** Ideal course text for environmental studies, politics, business and related fields, with comprehensive international coverage, boxed cases and further reading for each chapter-provides a challenging approach for students This textbook takes a holistic, interdisciplinary and analytical approach to the development, implementation and impact of environmental policies that…    
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Book details

List price: $61.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Sharon Beder is a professional engineer who researches and teaches environmental politics and is professor in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is an award-winning author of several successful books including Free Market Missionaries, Suiting Themselves, Global Spin, Power Play and Selling the Work Ethic.

Introduction
Principles
Policies
Environmental Protection Principles
The Sustainability Principle
Limits to growth
Sustainability in the 1980s
Carrying capacity
Ecological footprint
Continuing debate
Further reading
The Polluter Pays Principle
Functions of the polluter pays principle
Liability
Extended producer responsibility
Further reading
The Precautionary Principle
Shifting the burden of proof
Nature of the precautionary principle
Threat to desired level of protection
Scientific uncertainty
Measures to be taken
Legislation
Further reading
Social Principles and Environmental Protection
The Equity Principle
Intragenerational equity
Intergenerational equity
What should be sustained?
Further reading
Human Rights Principles
Role of environmental protection
Environmental human rights
Further reading
The Participation Principle
The right to know
Public participation
Further reading
Economic Methods of Environmental Valuation
Measuring Environmental Value
National accounts
Cost-benefit analysis
Environmental valuation in practice
Further reading
Is Monetary Valuation Principled?
The participation principle
The equity principle
Human rights principles
The sustainability principle
The precautionary principle
Economic Instruments for Pollution Control
Prices and Pollution Rights
Price-based measures
Tradeable pollution rights
Global warming measures
Further reading
The Sustainability Principle and Economic Instruments
Setting the baseline or cap
Phoney reductions
Monitoring and enforcement
Perpetuating bad practices
The Polluter Pays and Precautionary Principles Applied
The polluter pays principle
The precautionary principle
Rights, Equity and Participation Principles Applied
Human rights principles
The equity principle
The participation principle
Markets for Conservation
Quotas, Trades, Offsets and Banks
Tradeable fishing rights
Water trading
Salinity trading and offsets
Mitigation banking
Further reading
The Sustainability Principle and Conservation Markets
Fisheries trading
Water allowance trading
Mitigation banking
The Equity, Participation and Precautionary Principles Applied
The equity principle and tradeable fishing quotas
The equity principle and water trading
The participation principle
The precautionary principle
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index