Why Environmental Policies Fail

Environmental / Energy Law

Why Environmental Policies Fail

Edited by Jan Laitos · Juliana Okulski
Cambridge University Press August 2017

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ISBN-13
9781107546745
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
August 2017
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Table of Contents

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.
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