Global Environmental Economics

The work also illustrates that new developments in social choice theory offer a better foundation than traditional welfare economics.

Preface. Introduction. Part I: Rights, Preferences and Well-Being. 1. The Economics of Well-Being: A Review of Post Welfarist Economics. (Mohammed Dore). 2. Bequeathing Hazards: Security Rights and Property Rights of Future Humans. (Henry Shue). 3. Non-Use Values and the Limits of Cost Benefit Analysis. (Marc Willinger). Part II: Equity and Environmental Options. 4. Environmental Uncertainty and Future Generations. (Vercelli). 5. Environmental Option Values: A Critical Assessment. (Marcello Basili and Alexandro Vercelli). 6. Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental Policy Evaluation. (Tony Ward). Part III: Population and the Environment. 7. The Dynamics of Socio-Environmental Change and the Limits of Neo-Malthusian Environmentalism. (Peter Taylor and Raúl García-Barrios). 8. Population Growth and the State: Reconciling Private Wants and the Public Interest. (Paul Demeny). Part IV: After RIO: Global Action on Equity and the Environment. 9. Greenhouse Negotiations and the Mirage of Partial Justice. (Erik Schokkaert and Johan Eyckmans). 10. Market-Structuring Regulation and the Ozone Regime: Politics of the Montreal Protocol. (Ronald Herring). 11. Lessons from the Earth Summit: Protecting and Managing Biodiversity in the Tropics (P. S. Ramakrishnan). Part V: Sectoral Studies of Equity and the Environment. 12. Industrial and Resource Location, Trade and Pollution. (Duane Chapman and Jean Agras and Vivek Suri). 13. Sharing Common Property Resources: The North Atlantic Cod Fishery. (Daniel Gordon and K. K. Klein). 14. Redirecting Energy Policy in the USA to Address Global Warming. (Tim Mount). Epilogue. Reference.