Environmental principles and policies: an interdisciplinary approach
This book discusses six major principles of relevance to environmental issues and uses them to evaluate a set of environmental policies. The principles chosen include three that are specific to environmental matters – ecological sustainability, the polluter pays principle and the precautionary p...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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UNSW Press book
2020
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Online Access: | http://dspace.uniten.edu.my/jspui/handle/123456789/13569 |
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Summary: | This book discusses six major principles of relevance to environmental
issues and uses them to evaluate a set of environmental policies. The
principles chosen include three that are specific to environmental
matters – ecological sustainability, the polluter pays principle and the
precautionary principle – and three more that have wider social application – equity, human rights and public participation. While these six
principles are by no means comprehensive, and different scholars, policy
analysts and environmental groups have recommended others as also
relevant to environmental policies, they were selected because they were
developed over the past half century and have the broadest acceptance
around the world. Each has, to varying degrees, been incorporated into
international treaties and national law.
While these six principles can and should be used to evaluate all
environmental policies, this book focuses on one set of policies. This set
of policies forms the new wave of economic instruments and market-oriented environmental policies that seek to utilise economic incentives and
market forces in protecting the environment. These economics-based
policies are being progressively applied at the national and international
level, and have been embraced by business, government and many environmental groups.
The following brief historical context should be useful in better
understanding the political significance of the principles and environmental policies around which this book has been written. |
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