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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      10 July 2017
      25 July 2017
      ISBN:
      9781316343326
      9781107121010
      9781107546745
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316343326
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 226 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.34kg, 228 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Earth and Environmental Sciences, Law, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Economics and Law
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    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Law, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Economics and Law
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    This book is for those who are not just interested in the ways humans have harmfully altered their environment, but instead wish to learn why the many governmental policies in place to curb such behavior have been unsuccessful. Since humans began to exploit natural resources for their own economic ends, we have ignored a central principle: nature and humans are not separate, but are a unified, interconnected system in which neither is superior to the other. Policy must reflect this reality. We failed to follow this principle in exploiting natural capital without expecting to pay any price, and in hurriedly adopting environmental laws and policies that reflected how we wanted nature to work instead of how it does work. This study relies on more accurate models for how nature works and humans behave. These models suggest that environmental laws should be consistent with the laws of nature.

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