Publication Date

2017

Document Type

Book

Organizational Units

Sturm College of Law

Keywords

Laws of nature, Environmental policies, Nature and symmetry

Abstract

Proposing environmental policy which is consistent with the laws of nature, 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 behaviour 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, where 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.

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance. The book is published by Cambridge University Press.

Rights Holder

Jan G. Laitos, Juliana Okulski

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

17 pgs

File Size

5.6 MB

Publication Title

Cambridge University Press

First Page

1

Last Page

12

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