Human dimensions of global change: The social challenge
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2015-12-09
Authors
Dobell, Rod
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Abstract
The problems of global environmental change are both serious and urgent. This paper argues the need to find ways to handle the myriad social decisions on environmental questions routinely, without invoking all the heavy machinery of conscious collective choice. Such decentralization demans market instruments.
But coupled with the appeal to market instruments must be the strengthening of public decision structures, accountability mechanisms, and democratic guarantees. An environmental "bill of rights: to go with environmental markets is thus the critical social transaction.
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Notes for address to les conférences Hydro-Québec - UQAM Environnement et societé
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environmental management, environmental policy, market structure