Why Environmental Policies Fail (Paperback)

Jan Laitos

ISBN 10: 1107546745 / ISBN 13: 9781107546745

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017

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Paperback. 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 behavior 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 in which 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. These models suggest that environmental laws should be consistent with the laws of nature. Proposing environmental policy which is consistent with the laws of nature, this book is for readers who are not just interested in the many ways humans have altered their environment, but instead wish to learn why the many governmental policies in place to curb such behavior have been unsuccessful. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Why Environmental Policies Fail (Paperback)
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1107546745
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781107546745
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: new

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Synopsis

The real question examined by this book is not the extent of the failure of environmental policy, but exactly why did the policy fail?

À propos de l?auteur

Jan Laitos holds the John A. Carver, Jr Chair in Environmental and Natural Resources Law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He has previously published natural resources and environmental law books and treatises with Oxford University Press and Duke University Press, as well as with all the major American law publishers – West Academic, Foundation Press and Aspen. He has taught and lectured throughout America and in Spain, Hungary, Argentina, Ireland, Turkey and Scotland. He is a graduate of Yale College and the University of Colorado Law School. He has a Doctorate in American Legal History from the University of Wisconsin Law School.