"Climate Change, Economic Analysis and Sustainable Development"
This paper discusses the limitations, omissions, and value judgements of the application of conventional economic analysis in the evaluation of climate change mitigation policies.
This paper discusses the limitations, omissions, and value judgements of the application of conventional economic analysis in the evaluation of climate change mitigation policies.
This paper explores the context of environmental justice (EJ) in Scotland, and presents a case study whereby the main attributes for an indicator of EJ were identified, encompassing procedural and distributive aspects of justice.
Snorre Kverndok uses conventional justice principles to evaluate alternative allocation rules for tradeable CO2 permits, recommending a distribution proportional to population.
James Sterba argues that laying out the most morally defensible versions of an anthropological environmental ethics and nonanthropocentric ethics would lead us to accept the same principles of environmental justice.
Jack L. Knetsch discusses the contingent valuation of people’s willingness to pay in relation to environmental valuation.
Robin Attfield and Barry Wilkins argue that there are ethical criteria independent of the criterion of sustainability, so critiquing the view that a practice which ought not to be followed must therefore not be sustainable.
The documentary analyzes the changes a Canadian small town undergoes with the arrival of a global mining company.
Using Yung Chang’s 2007 documentary film Up the Yangtze, Weik von Mossner unravels the power struggles accompanying the construction of the world’s largest hydroelectric power plant—the Three Gorges Dam in China.
Shot over three years, Drowned Out tells the true story of one family’s inspired stand against the building of the Narmada Dam and the destruction of their land, homes and culture.
This documentary shows how the local population of Tanzania has been evicted to make way for the creation of the world’s most famous nature reserves.