Introduction * Part I: Environmental Protection Principles * The Sustainability Principle * The Polluter Pays Principle * The Precautionary Principle * Part II: Social Principles and Environmental Protection * The Equity Principle * Human Rights Principle * The Participation Principle * Part III: Economic Methods of Environmental Valuation * Measuring Environmental Value * Is Monetary Valuation Principled? * Part IV: Economic Instruments for Pollution Control * Prices and Pollution Rights * The Sustainability Principle and Economic Instruments * The Polluter Pays and Precautionary Principles Applied * Rights, Equity and Participation Principles Applied * Part V: Markets for Conservation * Quotas, Trades, Offsets and Banks * The Sustainability Principle and Conservation Markets * The Equity, Participation and Precautionary Principles Applied * Conclusion *
Sharon Beder, a professional engineer who researches and teaches environmental politics, 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 Suiting Themselves (April 2006), Global Spin, Power Play and Selling the Work Ethic.
'A vigorous demolition of the pervasive neoliberal approach to
environmental issues, which is marked by government policies of
emissions trading, 'eco-taxes' and the like.'
Green Left Weekly, # 698, February, 2007 'In Environmental
Principles and Policies, Sharon Beder has carefully dissected the
various trends and mechanisms of market-based environmental
policy...For anyone who has to negotiate the fog of public
environmental policy, it is essential reading: activists,
journalists, students - and anyone actually working within the
state or corporate bodies that deal with these issues could find an
epiphany in its pages, too.'
Green Left Weekly, # 698, February, 2007 'The growth of
environmental issues has thrown up a series of concepts over the
years. Often these are taken 'as-given' without seemingly any need
for a more critical approach. The rise of econometric models of
ecology and environment have also grown and have in many cases
overtaken, in the popular mind, these more basic and fundamental
ideas. However, with EU legislation increasing and a more mature
approach to environmental policies there has been a return to some
of the earlier key ideas. What is needed therefore is a text to
describe and evaluate these in concepts in the context of current
debates about the environment - which is where this text starts.
This is a very useful reference for the educator. It deals with
some of the current issues but blends them with the ideas, well
developed in the past, that provide a more equitable distribution
of resources. The book is, in effect, a critique of current views
but using a framework of the older, more developed principles. As
such it provides us with a very good reference and critique of
these often-neglected areas.'
Ecological and Environmental Education (British Ecological
Society)
'The book is well researched, well written and is highly
recommended' Livestock Science 'The book is remarkable...it is
written in a clear, non-technical language, and the arguments are
systematically structured.'
Luc Hens, Environment and Pollution, 2010. 'A good, practical guide
which will be valuable to environmental practitioners and
managers.'
AJH, Eagle Bulletin
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