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Library Impact Statement For Eec 497 Internship In Environmental Economics, Andrée J. Rathemacher
Library Impact Statement For Eec 497 Internship In Environmental Economics, Andrée J. Rathemacher
Library Impact Statements
Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for EEC 497 Internship in Environmental Economics. New course was supported iwth no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty member: Andree J. Rathemacher. Requestion faculty member: Emi Uchida
The Corporate Agenda For Environmental Property Rights, Sharon Beder
The Corporate Agenda For Environmental Property Rights, Sharon Beder
Sharon Beder
Market and property-rights based approaches to environmental problems have been heavily promoted by conservative think tanks. Consequently policies such as emissions trading, water markets, tradeable fishing quotas and conservation banking pervade environmental policy in English speaking nations. They have enabled the corporate neo-liberal agenda of deregulation, privatisation and an unconstrained market to be dressed up as an environmental virtue. This market-faith based approach is proving to be largely ineffective at protecting the environment and also inequitable.
Market Mechanisms, Ecological Sustainability And Social Equity, Sharon Beder
Market Mechanisms, Ecological Sustainability And Social Equity, Sharon Beder
Sharon Beder
In most cases the use of market mechanisms to protect the environment aim to maximise economic efficiency rather than environmental effectiveness or equity. The use of emissions trading to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is used as a case study to demonstrate this.