Environment, Inequality and Collective Action

by Basili, Marcello; Franzini, M.; Vercelli, Alessandro

• ISBN13: 9780203481509
• ISBN10: 020348150X
• Copyright: 2005-12-21
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

The Siena Summer School hosts lectures by distinguished scholars and offers a clear account of alternative research paths. This latest addition to the series identifies and addresses key issues surrounding the inequality-environment relationship.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Inequality, growth and the environment Alessandro Vercelli - Globalisation and sustainable development	p. 27
Income inequality and the environmental Kuznets curve	p. 67
Beyond Accumulation and Technical Progress: Negative Externalities as an Engine of Economic Growth	p. 111
Unequal effects of environment changes Sylvie Faucheux, Martin O'Connor - Navigating in a Second-Best World: Ecological Distribution, Historical Liability and Social Choice	p. 171
Poverty alleviation environment and sustainable development. Implication for the management of natural capital	p. 243
Inequality and Environmental Policy	p. 317
Inequality and collective action towards the environment Charles Perrings - Biodiversity as a local public good	p. 343
Collective action on the commons. The role of inequality	p. 383
Overcoming Asymmetries in the Commons with Sub Optimal Strategies: An Experimental Exploration in the Field	p. 397
Institutions, inequalities and the environment Graciela Chichilnisky - Environment and Global Public Goods	p. 449
Economic Institutions and Governance of the Commons	p. 485
Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Irreversibility: a Rational Approach to the Precautionary Principle	p. 539
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