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Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability
Jean-Marie Baland
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Description for Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability
Hardback. Would improving the economic, social, and political condition of the world's disadvantaged people slow - or accelerate - environmental degradation? This book provide answers to this difficult question, using research on the impact of inequality on environmental sustainability. Editor(s): Baland, Jean-Marie; Bardhan, Pranab; Bowles, Samuel. Num Pages: 368 pages, 4 halftones. 27 line illus. 50 tables. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPA; KCM; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 190 x 29. Weight in Grams: 654.
Would improving the economic, social, and political condition of the world's disadvantaged people slow--or accelerate--environmental degradation? In Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability, leading social scientists provide answers to this difficult question, using new research on the impact of inequality on environmental sustainability. The contributors' findings suggest that inequality may exacerbate environmental problems by making it more difficult for individuals, groups, and nations to cooperate in the design and enforcement of measures to protect natural assets ranging from local commons to the global climate. But a more equal division of a given amount of income could speed the process of environmental ... Read more
Would improving the economic, social, and political condition of the world's disadvantaged people slow--or accelerate--environmental degradation? In Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability, leading social scientists provide answers to this difficult question, using new research on the impact of inequality on environmental sustainability. The contributors' findings suggest that inequality may exacerbate environmental problems by making it more difficult for individuals, groups, and nations to cooperate in the design and enforcement of measures to protect natural assets ranging from local commons to the global climate. But a more equal division of a given amount of income could speed the process of environmental ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691128795
SKU
V9780691128795
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99-1
About Jean-Marie Baland
Jean-Marie Baland is Professor of Economics at the University of Namur in Belgium. Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Samuel Bowles is Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Professor of Economics at the University of Siena.
Reviews for Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability
"Inequality, Cooperation and Environmental Sustainability is a highly valuable book, rich in information, innovative in approach, eminently readable (if not suitable to the undergraduate student) and relevant to a wide scholarship interested in environmental commons and sustainability issues."
Luigi Pellizzoni, Sociologica
Luigi Pellizzoni, Sociologica