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.

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.