Failure or Reform?
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-22339-4 (ISBN)
Where some market instruments are used to fix market failures by putting a value on environmental protection, others use market-like mechanisms to allocate financial incentives for environmental work. They are promoted as flexible, efficient and politically neutral solutions to the competing demands of social, economic and ecological sustainability. But they also attract criticism for rolling back environmental regulation and privatizing public goods. This book argues that while many market-based instruments have merit, decisions about responsibility cannot be left entirely to the market. Whichever instruments we use, decision-making needs to be embedded in a logic of democratization.
Using case studies from around the world, this book investigates how instruments like eco-standards, payments for ecosystem services, pollution trading and community-based natural resource management perform in practice, and what can be learned about applying them more effectively. While the approach is primarily sociological, it is deliberately written to bridge the gap between sociology, economics, environmental sciences and the concerns of environmental policy makers.
Stewart Lockie is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Cairns Institute at James Cook University. He is Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Sociology and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Professor Lockie’s research addresses natural resource management, food and agriculture, sustainable development and climate adaptation.
1. Market Failure and Agri-Environmental Policy Reform 2. Thinking Environment Policy: Markets, Property and Services 3. Self-Help Sustainability: Community-Based Natural Resource Management 4. Standards, Certification and Sustainable Value Chain Governance 5. Payments for Ecosystem Service Provision 6. Pricing Resource Use: Eco-Taxes and Tradeable Rights 7. Conclusion: Market-Based Policy for Agricultural Sustainability References
Erscheinungsdatum | 20.03.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | 9 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 249 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie |
Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-22339-5 / 1138223395 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-22339-4 / 9781138223394 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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