Global Environmental Economics Equity and the Limits to Markets

by Dore, Mohammed H. I.; Mount, Timothy D.

• ISBN13: 9780631210306
• ISBN10: 063121030X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-29
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The work also illustrates that new developments in social choice theory offer a better foundation than traditional welfare economics.

Author Biography

Mohammed Dore, a co-editor of this volume, did his doctoral studies at Oxford University. He is Professor of Economics at Brock University and has published three other books and a number of articles. His current research interests are global environmental change and its distributional consequences on the rich and the poor. He leads an Inter-American team of researchers from South, Central and North America on the role of forests in mitigating global warming. His research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the National Science Foundation of the USA, the Inter American Institute of Global Change Research (which is now based in Brazil) and also the National Science Foundation of Brazil. He is also a member of NEPAMA, an international consortium of research, based at the University of Brasilia.

Tim Mount received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (1970). His research and teaching interests are econometric modeling and policy analysis relating to the demand for fuels and electricity and to environmental policies. Currently, research is being conducted on the implications for long-run planning of incorporating the costs of environmental damage from emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide, and the selection of economically efficient strategies for meeting ozone standards and stabilizing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Rights, Preferences and Well-Being

he Economics of Well-Being: A Review of Post Welfarist Economics

equeathing Hazards: Security Rights and Property Rights of Future Humans

on-Use Values and the Limits of Cost Benefit Analysis

Equity and Environmental Options

Environmental Uncertainty and Future Generations

Environmental Option Values: A Critical Assessment

Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental Policy Evaluation

Population and the Environment

The Dynamics of Socio-Environmental Change and the Limits of Neo-Malthusian Environmentalism

Population Growth and the State: Reconciling Private Wants and the Public Interest

After RIO: Global Action on Equity and the Environment

Greenhouse Negotiations and the Mirage of Partial Justice

Market-Structuring Regulation and the Ozone Regime: Politics of the Montreal Protocol

Lessons from the Earth Summit: Protecting and Managing Biodiversity in the Tropics

Sectoral Studies of Equity and the Environment

Industrial and Resource Location, Trade and Pollution

Sharing Common Property Resources: The North Atlantic Cod Fishery

Redirecting Energy Policy in the USA to Address Global Warming

Epilogue

Reference

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