Screen LibraryReforming law and economy for a sustainable earth : critical thought for turbulent times /
"Few problems preoccupy contemporary progressive thought as much as the issue of how to achieve a sustainable human society. The problems impeding this goal of sustainability mainly involve arresting induced global environmental changes (GEC), but problems also result from the sheer number of c...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge research in environmental politics ; 22. |
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| Summary: |
"Few problems preoccupy contemporary progressive thought as much as the issue of how to achieve a sustainable human society. The problems impeding this goal of sustainability mainly involve arresting induced global environmental changes (GEC), but problems also result from the sheer number of competing disciplinary perspectives on GEC, on ways in which economic activities are causing environmental change, and on how the latter can be reformed in order to stop the former.Reforming Law and Economy for a Sustainable Earth aims to help resolve these problems in two ways. Accepting that resolving most GEC will require global coordination, the book first clarifies the conditions necessary for effective global coordination ... |
| Item Description: | Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Warwick, 2011) issued under title: International environmental law reform and the allocation problem : from market failure to a critical theory of justice. |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 281 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-270) and index. |
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9781138013865 (hardback) : 1138013862 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | K3585 |
| CLC: | D912.6 |
| Call Number: | D912.6/A548 |
| Contents: | Introduction: reforming law and economy for a sustainable earth -- Proposals for international environmental law reform : a critical review of the literature -- Refinement of the epistemology of environmental sustainability -- The poverty of the market? : critique of economic prescriptions for international environmental law reform -- The failure of market failure? : critique of the economic diagnosis of the causes of global environmental change -- Capitalism as allocation problem : towards diagnosis of the causes of global environmental change -- Reforming law and economy for a sustainable earth : towards a critical theory of justice? -- Is ecological democracy sustainable?. |