Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 341 pages)
ISBN:
0691032505
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9780691032504
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0691001650
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9780691001654
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1400813557
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9781400813551
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9780691258881
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0691258880
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-330) and indexes
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Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter I: Diagnosis: The Earth Has Cancer, and the Cancer Is Man -- In the Doctor's Judgment -- Diagnosis at Rio -- A Second, Less Foreboding Opinion -- Prognosis: Social Choice in the Face of Uncertainty -- Chapter II: The Condition ofthe Earth from the Legal Perspective -- Astronaut and Diplomat -- A Nation's Abuse of Its Own Environment -- Chapter III: Transboundary Pollution -- The Preventive Techniques -- The Reactive Techniques
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Consensual Transboundary Pollution -- Summary -- Chapter IV: Managing the Global Commons -- A Nation's "Internal" Activities Damaging the Commons -- A Nation's Activities on the Commons Damaging the Commons -- A Nation's Activities on the Commons Damaging Another Nation -- Chapter V: Treaties as Antidotes -- The Virtues of a Treaty-Based Approach -- The Impediments to Treaty Formation -- Under What Circumstances are International Negotiations Likely to Succeed? -- Conclusion -- Chapter VI: The Economist's Prescriptions: Taxes and Tradable Permits -- The Economic Ideal
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Institutionalizing the Economic Ideal -- Pro Rata Cutbacks -- Effluent Taxes -- Tradable Emissions Permits -- Conclusion -- Chapter VII: Medicating the Earth: Preventatives and Remedies -- Need Our Responses Be Fully Global? -- Is Prevention Better than Cure? -- The Deferred, Go-It-Alone Policy as a Second-Best Strategy -- A Review of the Home-Grown Remedies -- The New Generation of Legislation -- Chapter VIII: Taking Out Calamity Insurance -- The Application of Conventional Insurance to Climate Change -- Modes of Government Participation -- The International Precedents and Prospects
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Alternative "Insurance" -- Chapter IX: Paying the Bills: Toward a Global Commons Trust Fund -- The Global Financing Options -- The Global Commons Trust Fund -- Financing Options in the Light of Domestic Policy Alternatives -- The Virtues and Vices of Global Funds: The Donors versus the "Democrats" -- Conclusion -- Chapter X: The Spiritual and Moral Dimensions ofthe Environmental Crisis: Of Humankind and Gnats -- The Spiritual Roots of the Environmental Crisis -- The Moral Dimensions -- What Does an Environmental Ethic Aim For? -- The Arguments against an Environmental Ethic
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The Burdens an Environmental Ethic Faces -- One Further Level of Abstraction: The Metaphysical Underpinnings -- Notes -- Index to Topics and Institutions -- Index to Authors -- Index to Conventions -- Index to Legal Cases
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Stone, Christopher D Gnat is older than man Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1993 (1995 printing)
Sprache:
Englisch
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