Environmental Justice and Market Mechanisms:Key Challenges for Environmental Laws and Policy (International Environmental Law and Policy Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (533 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9041197273 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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This book is the first to investigate the link between these two approaches, measuring market-based tools of environmental law such as tradable permits and ecotaxes against the requirements of environmental justice. This book examines the obstacles to achieving environmental justice in the context of neo-liberal economic systems founded upon deregulation, privatization and the use of market mechanisms as a policy tool. Based on papers delivered at a major international conference held in March 1998, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, the book outlines the global context of the tensions between environmental justice and mar
A welcome addition to the environmental law canon This impressive work is a welcome addition to the growing body of literature dealing with the relationship between environmentalism, the law and market economics. Of particular interest is the article by Dovers and Gullett on responses to sustainability and evironmental justice and associated policy problems. The scholarship is second to none (as it is in the book overall), however, I think the excellent section on the often overlooked, precautionary principle, deserved more attention.In general,this bo