Greenhouse Economics: Value and Ethics

By C. Spash. 2002

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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The Brave New World of Carbon Trading (2009, background): “The problem for economics is then its failure to distinguish between undertaking harm and creating good – that is, incommensurability (Spash 1994, 2002).”
Linking Industrial Ecology and Ecological Economics: A Theoretical and Empirical Foundation for the Circular Economy (2019, background): “…individual to global consumption patterns (Reisch and Røpke 2004), through the management of ecosystems and reducing the pressures that human activities exert on those ecosystems (Farber et al. 2006), to broad global governance schemes for economy– society–environment interactions (Spash 2002).”
The economics of climate change impacts a la Stern: Novel and nuanced or rhetorically restricted? (2007, background): “This follows an economic defence of the orthodoxy found in the IPCC third assessment (see Spash, 2002: 186–188), where counter arguments are segregated as “non-economic,” a standard strategy (Kapp, 1978: 305–318).”
Deliberative monetary valuation (DMV): Issues in combining economic and political processes to value environmental change (2007, background): “Contrary to many positivistic claims, economics does have an underlying ethical philosophy and that is one where ‘good’ is defined by the consequences of an action as they benefit the individual (Sen, 1987; Anderson, 1993; O'Neill, 1998; Spash, 2002 ).”
The Uncertainty of Innovation: A Systematic Review of the Literature (2011, background): “Similarly Spash (2002) has written about ‘strong uncertainty’, by which he refers to situations where “not only are we unable to predict the consequences of events, we are unable to determine which events will lead to future change”.”
How Much is that Ecosystem in the Window? The One with the Bio-diverse Trail (2008, background): “5 An attempt is sometimes made to distinguish market prices from ʻshadow ̓or artificial prices (as calculated in environmental CBA).”
‘The economy’ as if people mattered: revisiting critiques of economic growth in a time of crisis (2020, background): “The economists involved asserted that the calculations merely reported the facts, revealing their empiricist naïve objectivism, and remained totally unrepentant, ignoring the ethical meaning and consequences of their valuations (Spash, 2002b).”
Transferring environmental value estimates: Issues and alternatives (2006, background): “That standard values are designated fails to prevent considerable controversy over the use of both discountingand statistical life calculations (as discussed in Chapters 7 and 8 of Spash, 2002 ).”
Social Ecological Economics: Understanding the Past to See the Future (2011, background): “Once again mainstream economics seems unable to offer much and instead attempts to reduce all strong uncertainty to weak uncertainty (Spash 2002).”
Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve? (2021, unknown): “The consequence of this framing is that it favors policy recommendations that prioritize consumption possibilities over loss of life, rich over poor, and current over future generations (78, 79).”
Fair adaptation to climate change (2006, background): “Using the conventional tort law conception of liability for damages would be problematic in this situation: the vital interests of poor inhabitants of developing countries would not attract a high price tag (see Spash, 2002; see also Baer, in press).”