The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law, and the Environment - Brossura

Sagoff, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0521395666 ISBN 13: 9780521395663

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

This book addresses government social policy in relation to the environment, pollution, the workplace, and public safety and health. Professor Sagoff presents an analysis based on ethical, cultural, and political concerns, that reveals how environmental legislation can be sensitive to political reality and responsive to economic costs. The argument is developed to cover the relationship between liberalism and environmentalism, the place of values in environmental science, the importance of a 'land ethic', the role of public interest groups, and efforts to reform environmental law.

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'His book serves as an outstanding example of how applied philosophy should be done.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

'Any person pursuing a graduate degree in natural resource economics with interests in public policy analysis needs to read and reflect upon Sagoff's book. Any practicing natural resource economist should do the same. This is an important book.' The American Journal of Agricultural Economics

'The second edition incorporates the increasing engagement of mainstream and evangelical religious communities with environmental protection into his argument for a democratic environmentalism not constrained by either economics or science. Sagoff's carefully reasoned and wide ranging arguments will infuriate economists, ecologists and elite environmentalists equally, but the book is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of environmentalism.' -Dan Tarlock, Chicago-Kent College of Law

'The Economy of the Earth presents a masterful synthesis of Mark Sagoff's seminal contributions to the theory of environmental policy analysis. Sagoff argues that good policy design requires accommodation between strongly held, incommensurable moral values. Yet the techniques of policy analysis rest on strong and sometimes naïve ethical assumptions. Sagoff shows how careful philosophical reasoning can reform the practice of policy analysis to better serve the democratic process. This provocative book deserves a central place in the environmental studies literature.' -Richard B. Howarth, Dartmouth College

'The first edition of The Economy of the Earth staked out a position that many felt but few had said: the most important reasons for protecting nature are moral and aesthetic, not economic and instrumental. In the second edition, massively revised and updated, Sagoff preaches the same sermon but even more clearly and eloquently. The second edition of The Economy of the Earth is as vital to debates about environmental policy as the first edition was in its time.' Dale Jamieson, Director of Environmental Studies, New York University

Descrizione del libro:

This book addresses government social policy in relation to the environment, pollution, the workplace, and public safety and health. Professor Sagoff presents an analysis based on ethical, cultural, and political concerns, that reveals how environmental legislation can be sensitive to political reality and responsive to economic costs.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521395666
• ISBN 13: 9780521395663
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 281