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Market Mechanisms, Ecological Sustainability And Equity, Sharon Beder
Market Mechanisms, Ecological Sustainability And Equity, Sharon Beder
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Economists are commonly asked for advice on environmental policy. In Australia, for example, it was economist Ross Garnaut who was asked to prepare the major report on climate change policy. Not surprisingly, economists tend to advocate market mechanisms to achieve environmental protection. But can market mechanisms aim to maximise economic efficiency rather than environmental effectiveness or equity.
Environmental Economics And Ecological Economics: The Contribution Of Interdisciplinarity To Understanding, Influence And Effectiveness, Sharon Beder
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper reviews developments in both environmental economics and ecological economics with respect to their progress towards environmental interdisciplinarity and towards providing solutions to environmental problems. The concepts, methods, theories and assumptions of each field of knowledge are reviewed and the extent to which they depart from the dominant neoclassical paradigm of economics is assessed. The contribution that interdisciplinarity has made to the success of each field is analysed in terms of understanding, influence and effectiveness and the constraints that it has imposed upon that success. Environmental economics has adopted the dominant economic neoclassical paradigm, including the power of the …