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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| 1 | The role of economics in analysing ecological and environmental problems and in related policy decisions: an overview | 3 |
| 2 | Ecological or green economics: genuine contribution or fashionable fad? | 19 |
| 3 | Ecological economics and the environmental future | 35 |
| 4 | The environment and economic welfare | 49 |
| 5 | The nature of sustainability and of sustainable development | 61 |
| 6 | Sustainability and sustainable development: are these concepts a help or a hindrance to economics? | 66 |
| 7 | Capital/natural resource substitution: the debate of Georgescu-Roegen (through Daly) with Solow/Stiglitz | 84 |
| 8 | Ethics in modern economic thought and their consequences for environmental conservation, land and resource-use | 87 |
| 9 | Local communities, conservation and sustainability: institutional change, altered governance and Kant's social philosophy | 124 |
| 10 | Rural development projects in LDCs: appraisal, participation and sustainability | 139 |
| 11 | Integrated regional environmental studies: the role of environmental economics | 151 |
| 12 | Population, economic change, and environmental security | 168 |
| 13 | Carrying capacity reconsidered: from Malthus' population theory to cultural carrying capacity | 192 |
| 14 | Good governance, property rights and sustainable resource use: Indian Ocean rim examples | 209 |
| 15 | Compensation for taking of natural resource interests: principles and practices in recent Queensland cases | 225 |
| 16 | Taxation versus tradable permits and alternative policies for environmental management | 235 |
| 17 | Economic policy instruments and environmental sustainability: another look at environmental-use permits | 243 |
| 18 | Environmental taxation versus tradeable permits: public finance, accounting and related aspects | 248 |
| 19 | Coevolution, agricultural practices and sustainability: some major social and ecological issues | 254 |
| 20 | The environment and sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific: views and policies | 267 |
| 21 | Australian environmental issues: an overview | 284 |
| 22 | Economic growth in China: can China cope with its environmental constraints and problems? | 300 |
| 23 | Protection of the environment in transitional economies | 321 |
| 24 | Cadmium exposure in Daye County, China: environmental assessment and management, health and economic effects | 341 |
| 25 | Health, safe water and sanitation: a cross-sectional health production function for Central Java, Indonesia | 347 |
| Name index | 357 |
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Natalie Walnycky
reviewed Ecological and Environmental Economics: Selected Issues and Policy Responses on January 10, 2016
Ecological and Environmental Economics: Selected Issues and Policy Responses
A lot of the environmental movement as it exists presently is caught up in promotion of low-resource, off the grid lifestyles and voluntary poverty. Not surprisingly, a lot of environmentalists handwringing about the impact it will have on the planet if the developing world successfully adopts a Westernized lifestyle. I'be even heard some well-meaning but ill-informed folks suggest that we shouldn't try to improve global poverty or world poverty at all, because the deaths caused reduce the overpopulation strain (!!). In many cases the sensibilities of this movement also block advances like nuclear power and GMO crops.
Jack Hollander blows those ideas out of the water with what the evidence actually shows-as people become more affluent, they demand greater environmental standards from their governments. Furthermore, many environmental losses, such as endangered species poaching and forest destruction, are a direct result of people at a subsistence level trying to survive. Even the overpopulation problem and high birth rates can be partially attributed to parents trying to ensure that they have surviving children in the face of Widespread childhood disease and death.
The policy recommendations Hollander recommends are eminently sensible, and include interventions for public health, universal voting access, and improved agricultural techniques, including GMOs. I can't speak to whether Hollander would identify as an effective altruist today, but it at least seems likely he'd be supportive of interventions like direct cash transfers.
Mostly where this book falls flat, and the reason I gave it 3 stars instead of 4, is that the data on climate change and related technologies has changed a lot since 2003. Hollander is, in the book, very much of the opinion that climate science and global warming is still contested. It is much less contested today, on the brink of 2016, when global warming is taken much more seriously as a catastrophic risk to humanity. Similarly, he is much more optimistic about fuel cells as a source of transportation energy than contemporary engineers are. Still, this is a good read if you are interested in becoming a more effective advocate for both global poverty and the environment.
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