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Environmental Policy and Societal Aims

Requier-Desjardins, Denis(Edited by)Spash, Clive L.(Edited by)Van der Straaten, Jan(Edited by)
Part of the Studies in Ecological Economics series
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Sustainable development and environmental improvement are often regarded as intrinsically valuable a priori.

As a result, the policies by which these goals are to be attained is often inadequately scrutinised.

In this book, ecological economics addresses the institutional and policymaking aspects of environmental problems, thus covering a broad socioeconomic research agenda, in contradistinction to mainstream economic approaches.

The approach advocated here is open to differing viewpoints on the same issue, sees conflict resolution as a social process, and accepts the need for research into political-economic issues, according a prominent position to the aims of society itself.

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Product Details
Kluwer Academic Publishers
0792360400 / 9780792360407
Hardback
333.7
31/12/1999
United States
336 pages, illustrations
171 x 248 mm, 680 grams
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