The political economy of the environment

James K Boyce

The political economy of the environment /James K Boyce - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar , 2001. - 145 Pages ; 24 cm

Contents: 1. Stealing the Commons 2. Let Them Eat Risk? 3. Investing in Natural and Human Capital 4. Inequality as a Cause of Environmental Degradation 5. Rethinking the Environmental Kuznets Curve 6. Power Distribution, the Environment, and Public Health 7. The Globalization of Market Failure? 8. A Squandered Inheritance 9. Democratizing Environmental Ownership Index

He provides evidence that inequalities of power and wealth affect not only the distribution of environmental costs, but also their overall magnitude: greater inequalities result in more environmental degradation.

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Social Sciences


Environmental economics--Ecology--Economic aspects

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