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Environmental dilemmas and policy design /

It has been assumed that mere awareness of the causes of environmental degradation will not motivate citizens to reduce pollution. Here the authors counter-argue that most citizens are willing to contribute voluntarily towards safeguarding the environment, but that their willingness depends on the s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pellikaan, Huib
Otros Autores: Veen, Robert J. van der
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Colección:Theories of institutional design.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Background
  • Environmental pollution as a problem of collective action
  • Dutch approach: self-regulation as a policy concept
  • Actor's perspective on collective action
  • Part II. The survey
  • Preference orderings and measurement
  • Rational choice
  • Consistency of motives and preferences
  • Non-equivalence of the cases
  • Reported behaviour
  • Part III. Conclusions: theory and policy
  • Do people accept self-regulation policy?
  • Do people agree with the environmental ethos?
  • Moral commitment and rational cooperation
  • Reciprocity and cooperation in environmental dilemmas
  • Assessing self-regulation policies.