Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy
Title | Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel W. Bromley |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2008-04-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0470692928 |
Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices offers a comprehensive analysis of the ethical problems associated with basing environmental policy on economic analysis, and ways to overcome these problems.
The Business of Consumption
Title | The Business of Consumption PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Westra |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780847686698 |
At the forefront of international concerns about global legislation and regulation, a host of noted environmentalists and business ethicists examine ethical issues in consumption from the points of view of environmental sustainability, economic development, and free enterprise. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Ecology, Economics, Ethics
Title | Ecology, Economics, Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | F. Herbert Bormann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780300049763 |
In this book a distinguished group of environmental experts argues that in order to solve global environmental problems, we must view them in a broad interdisciplinary perspective that recognizes the relations, the interconnected circle, among ecology, economics, and ethics. Currently the circle is broken, they say, because environmental policy is decided on short-term estimations of material return that take little account of the economic or moral burdens that will be borne by future generations if we deplete our resources now.
Environmental Ethics and International Policy
Title | Environmental Ethics and International Policy PDF eBook |
Author | H. ten Have |
Publisher | UNESCO |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9231040391 |
This publication, a joint initiative of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) and the UNESCO Division of Ethics of Science and Technology, contains essays written by eight leading international experts in this relatively new inter-disciplinary area of applied ethics. These papers consider the moral dimensions of environmental management issues and explores proposals for effective international policy-making to promote environmental objectives.
Valuing Nature?
Title | Valuing Nature? PDF eBook |
Author | John Michael Foster |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780415129787 |
This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.
A Textbook of Environmental Economics
Title | A Textbook of Environmental Economics PDF eBook |
Author | K. V. Pavithran |
Publisher | New Age International |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Environmental economics |
ISBN | 8122422802 |
The Environmental Ethics and Policy Book
Title | The Environmental Ethics and Policy Book PDF eBook |
Author | Donald VanDeVeer |
Publisher | Wadsworth Publishing Company |
Pages | 716 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Education |
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This text and sourcebook crosses disciplinary boundaries and attends seriously to economic reasoning and its implications for environmental policy issues while taking a broad view of questions of ethics. It is appropriate and valuable not only for philosophy and environmental science students but also for students of economics, biology, engineering, and public policy.