The gnat is older than man : global environment and human agenda / Christopher D. Stone
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- Stone, Christopher D
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1993
- xxv, 341 p. ; 25 cm.
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- Preface Acknowledgments Ch. I Diagnosis: The Earth Has Cancer, and the Cancer Is Man 3 In the Doctor's Judgment 3 Diagnosis at Rio 5 A Second, Less Foreboding Opinion 18 Prognosis: Social Choice in the Face of Uncertainty 26 Ch. II The Condition of the Earth from the Legal Perspective 33 Astronaut and Diplomat 33 A Nation's Abuse of Its Own Environment 37 Ch. III Transboundary Pollution 50 The Preventive Techniques 52 The Reactive Techniques 57 Consensual Transboundary Pollution 66 Ch. IV Managing the Global Commons 71 A Nation's "Internal" Activities Damaging the Commons 72 A Nation's Activities on the Commons Damaging the Commons 88 A Nation's Activities on the Commons Damaging Another Nation 94 Ch. V Treaties as Antidotes 96 The Virtues of a Treaty-Based Approach 96 The Impediments to Treaty Formation 98 Under What Circumstances are International Negotiations Likely to Succeed? 116 Ch. VI The Economist's Prescriptions: Taxes and Tradable Permits 122 The Economic Ideal 123 Institutionalizing the Economic Ideal 129 Pro Rata Cutbacks 132 Effluent Taxes 134 Tradable Emissions Permits 141 Ch. VII Medicating the Earth: Preventatives and Remedies 153 Need Our Responses Be Fully Global? 154 Is Prevention Better than Cure? 159 The Deferred, Go-It-Alone Policy as a Second-Best Strategy 160 A Review of the Home-Grown Remedies 162 The New Generation of Legislation 174 Ch. VIII Taking Out Calamity Insurance 182 The Application of Conventional Insurance to Climate Change 187 Modes of Government Participation 192 The International Precedents and Prospects 197 Alternative "Insurance" 198 Ch. IX Paying the Bills: Toward a Global Commons Trust Fund 201 The Global Financing Options 203 The Global Commons Trust Fund 208 Financing Options in the Light of Domestic Policy Alternatives 220 The Virtues and Vices of Global Funds: The Donors versus the "Democrats" 226 Ch. X The Spiritual and Moral Dimensions of the Environmental Crisis: Of Humankind and Gnats 235 The Spiritual Roots of the Environmental Crisis 235 The Moral Dimensions 242 What Does an Environmental Ethic Aim For? 268 The Arguments against an Environmental Ethic 271 The Burdens an Environmental Ethic Faces 276 One Further Level of Abstraction: The Metaphysical Underpinnings 278 Notes 281 Index to Topics and Institutions 331 Index to Authors 337 Index to Conventions 340 Index to Legal Cases 341
- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Environmental policy, Environmental law, Human ecology, Natural resources Moral and ethical aspects.
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- Includes index.
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