Why environmental policies fail / Jan Laitos with Juliana Okulski.
By: Laitos, Jan [author.]
.Contributor(s): Okulski, Juliana [author.].Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017Description: xiv, 215 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781107121010 ; 9781107546745 .Subject(s): Environmental law | Environmental policy | Nature -- Effect of human beings on | Human behaviour | Human ecologyDDC classification: 333.7 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| 333.7 BRO Plan B 2.0 : | 333.7 COL The plundered planet : | 333.7 HAR Environmental and natural resource economics : a contemporary approach / | 333.7 LAI Why environmental policies fail / | 333.7 LOV The revenge of Gaia : | 333.7 LOV The vanishing face of Gaia : a final warning / | 333.7 LOV A rough ride to the future / |
Prologue; Part I. Nature: Humans and their Environmental Surroundings: 1. The gardener and the sick garden; Part II. Nature: A History and Assessment of Environmental Policies: 2. Four troubled eras of environmental policies; 3. An assessment: environmental policies have failed; Part III. Why Environmental Policies Fail I: Faulty Assumptions behind Environmental Rules: 4. A false worldview; 5. Failed model #1: how nature works; 6. Failed model #2: how to value nature; 7. Failed model #3: how humans behave; Part IV. Why Environmental Policies Fail II: A Critique of Existing and Proposed Strategies: 8. A narrative of failed environmental strategies; Part V. Environmental Policy Must Obey the Fundamental Laws of Nature: 9. Nature and symmetry; 10. Toward a new legal alignment of humans and nature; Epilogue.
"Proposing environmental policy which is consistent with the laws of nature, this book is for those who are not just interested in the ways humans have harmfully altered their environment, but instead wish to learn why the many governmental policies in place to curb such behaviour have been unsuccessful. Since humans began to exploit natural resources for their own economic ends, we have ignored a central principle - nature and humans are not separate but are a unified interconnected system, where neither is superior to the other. Policy must reflect this reality. We failed to follow this principle in exploiting natural capital without expecting to pay any price and in hurriedly adopting environmental laws and policies that reflected how we wanted nature to work, instead of how it does work. This study relies on more accurate models for how nature works and humans behave"-- Provided by publisher.