Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy

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 volume has practical relevance because policy recommendations and choices based on economic analysis are often contested by critics. This book takes their criticism seriously. It seeks to clarify and defend the ethical foundations of environmental economics and examines what lessons environmental economics should draw from the criticism. As a result, the volume improves our understanding of the ethical foundations and implications of economic analysis of environmental problems and policy. The contribution is all the more important because the problem has not been extensively studied.

Daniel W. Bromley is Anderson-Bascom Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has written and edited numerous books including Sustaining Development (1999), The Handbook of Environmental Economics (1995), Making the Commons Work (1992), Environment and Economy (1991), and Economic Interests and Institutions (1989). He is also the editor of the journal Land Economics, the oldest and most distinguished international journal in environmental and natural resources economics.

Jouni Paavola is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) at the University of East Anglia and an Associate Fellow at the Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society (OCEES), Mansfield College, Oxford, UK. He has authored a number of publications on economics, ethics, and history of environmental policy.

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Contested Choices
Economics, Ethics, and Policy Choices
Are Choices Trade-offs?
The Ignorance Argument: What Must We Know to Be Fair to the Future?
Benefit-Cost Considerations Should Be Decisive When There is Nothing More Important at Stake
Environmental Policy as the Process of Reasonable Valuing
Ethical Concerns and Policy Goals
Rethinking the Choice and Performance of Environmental Policies
What to Do with Inconsistent, Non-Welfaristic and Undeveloped Preferences?
Awkward Choices: Economics and Nature Conservation
Ethical Dimensions of Policy Consequences
All Policy Instruments Require A Moral Choice as to Whose Interests Count
Efficient or Fair: Ethical Paradoxes in Environmental Policy
Trading with the Enemy: Examining North-South Perspectives in the Climate Change Debate
Social Costs and Sustainability
Ethics in Aaction: Emperical Analysis
Empirical Signs of Ethical Concern in Economic Valuation of the Environment
Motivating Existence Values: The Many and Varied Sources of the Stated WTP for Endangered Species
Environmental and Ethical Dimensions of the Provision of a Basic Need: Water and Sanitation Services in East Africa
Conclusions
Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy
Index
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