Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability (eBook)

Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, Samuel Bowles (Herausgeber)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18738-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Would improving the economic, social, and political condition of the world's disadvantaged people slow--or accelerate--environmental degradation? In Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability, leading social scientists provide answers to this difficult question, using new research on the impact of inequality on environmental sustainability. The contributors' findings suggest that inequality may exacerbate environmental problems by making it more difficult for individuals, groups, and nations to cooperate in the design and enforcement of measures to protect natural assets ranging from local commons to the global climate. But a more equal division of a given amount of income could speed the process of environmental degradation--for example, if the poor value the preservation of the environment less than the rich do, or if the consumption patterns of the poor entail proportionally greater environmental degradation than that of the rich. The contributors also find that the effect of inequality on cooperation and environmental sustainability depends critically on the economic and political institutions governing how people interact, and the technical nature of the environmental asset in question. The contributors focus on the local commons because many of the world's poorest depend on them for their livelihoods, and recent research has made great strides in showing how private incentives, group governance, and government policies might combine to protect these resources.

Autor

Jean-Marie Baland is Professor of Economics at the University of Namur in Belgium. Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Samuel Bowles is Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Professor of Economics at the University of Siena.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Allocative Efficiency • Altruism • coefficient • Collective Action • common-pool resource • Common Resource • community-based conservation • Comparative Advantage • Consumer Sovereignty • Cost–benefit analysis • cost-effectiveness analysis • decentralization • Determinant • developed country • Ecological economics • Ecology • Economic Inequality • Economics • Efficiency • Environmental Data • Environmental Degradation • Environmental economics • Environmental education • Environmental Hazard • Environmental issue • Environmentalist • environmental justice • environmental organization • Environmental Policy • Environmental politics • environmental protection • Environmental Quality • Environmental Racism • Environmental resource management • estimation • Expected utility hypothesis • Externality • firewood • fishery • Gender Inequality • Governance • Health • Household • Implicit Cost • Incentive • income • Income Equality • inefficiency • Institution • Irrigation • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management • Liberalization • Loss Aversion • Marginal cost • Marginal product • Marginal propensity to consume • Marginal return • Market power • Moral Hazard • natural resource • Norm of reciprocity • Norm (social) • opportunity cost • Pareto Efficiency • Pesticide • Pollutant • Poverty trap • Profit (economics) • Profit Maximization • progressive tax • Public Expenditure • Public Good • Quantity • Rational Choice Theory • Reforestation • result • safety net • Sanitation • Scarcity • Scarcity (social psychology) • Security of tenure • Self-Governance • Self-Interest • Self-Sufficiency • shortage • Social dilemma • social welfare function • Subsidy • sustainability • sustainable development • Sustainable forest management • Sustainable Management • Tax Fairness • the theory of the leisure class • Tragedy of the commons • use value • Utility • Value (ethics) • Wealth • welfare
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18738-X / 069118738X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18738-9 / 9780691187389