Environmental Ethics, Sustainability and Decisions

This book provides a summary of the main concepts involved in environmental ethics, sustainability and decisions and a consistent sequence of environmental ethics, sustainability and decisions. It presents many environmental ethics, by focusing on maximising welfare within teleological approaches and minimising inequalities within deontological approaches. It presents many sustainability paradigms, by focusing on weak sustainability to maximise welfare and strong sustainability to minimise inequalities. Two main decisions are presented by focusing on policies (taxes, standards, subsidies, permits, protected areas, exploitation rights) and projects (CBA) towards efficiency to maximise welfare and policies (national laws/regulations, bilateral/multilateral agreements) and projects (MCA) towards equity to minimise inequalities.

Presents a summary of the theoretical and empirical literature on environmental ethics, sustainability, and decisions Is a consistent analytical framework for environmental ethics, sustainability, and decisions Includes exercises to become familiar with concepts and formulas in environmental ethics, sustainability, and decisions

Auteur
Fabio Zagonari is Associate Professor of Economics, Bologna University. He has taught microeconomics and environmental economics. He has a Diploma in Violin, Bologna Conservatoire, a Laurea in Economics, Bologna University, an M.Phil. in Economics of Developing Countries, Cambridge University, a Ph.D. in Economics, Ancona University. He has published on many topics (46% interdisciplinary), from industrial organization to hospitality management, from decision economics to science metrics, but his main focus is on environment and ethics. His September 2022 Scopus-based per capita net H-index for articles is 9.4 (2.5 per year). He has consulted for international organisations, agencies and foundations.

Contenu
Introduction.- 1.Environmental ethics.- 2.Environmental sustainability.- 3.Environmental decisions.- 4.Conclusions.