Why Environmental Policies Fail

Environmental / Energy Law

Why Environmental Policies Fail

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

Specifications

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

Also available as

Hardback

Details

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.
HKD 403.52 −3%
HKD 416.00

Inclusive of HK delivery

Ready to ship
Delivery Time: around 4-5 weeks
Extra 10 working days if shipping address outside Hong Kong
  • Free HK shipping over HK$1,000
  • International shipping to 35+ countries
Order Form
Save

Recommended

You may also be interested in these books:

More titles from Environmental / Energy Law

View all
Corporate Liability for Transboundary Environmental Harm: An International and Transnational Perspective
Springer International

Corporate Liability for Transboundary Environmental Harm: An International and Transnational Perspective

Peter Gailhofer; David Krebs; Alexander Proelss; Kirsten Schmalenbach; Roda Verheyen
HKD 598.00
Environmental Law in China
Oxford University Press USA

Environmental Law in China

Charles McElwee
HKD 3,877.58
Energy in International Trade Law: Concepts, Regulation and Changing Markets
Cambridge University Press

Energy in International Trade Law: Concepts, Regulation and Changing Markets

Anna-Alexandra Marhold
HKD 315.25
The Human Right to a Green Future
Cambridge University Press

The Human Right to a Green Future

Richard Hiskes
HKD 327.73
Decarbonising Energy: The Pathway to Net Zero
Globe Law and Business

Decarbonising Energy: The Pathway to Net Zero

Hugo Lidbetter; Fieldfisher
HKD 1,576.25
The Energy Mergers & Acquisitions Review 2nd Edition.
Law Business Research Ltd

The Energy Mergers & Acquisitions Review 2nd Edition.

Sean T. Wheeler; Kristin Mendoza; Roald Nashi; Robert S. Fleishman
HKD 4,655.00