TY - BOOK AU - James K Boyce TI - The political economy of the environment SN - 9781840643664 U1 - 333.7 BOY PY - 2001/// CY - Cheltenham PB - : Edward Elgar KW - Social Sciences KW - Environmental economics KW - Ecology--Economic aspects N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -