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Why Environmental Policies Fail
Jan Laitos
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Description for Why Environmental Policies Fail
paperback. The real question examined by this book is not the extent of the failure of environmental policy, but exactly why did the policy fail? Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: LBBP; RNA; RNK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107546745
SKU
V9781107546745
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99-28
About Jan Laitos
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 ... Read more
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