Would improving the economic, social, and political condition of the world's disadvantaged people slow--or accelerate--environmental degradation? In Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability , leading social scientists provide answers to this difficult question, using new research on the impact of inequality on environmental sustainability.
The contributors' findings suggest that inequality may exacerbate environmental problems by making it more difficult for individuals, groups, and nations to cooperate in the design and enforcement of measures to protect natural assets ranging from local commons to the global climate. But a more equal division of a given amount of income could speed the process of environmental degradation--for example, if the poor value the preservation of the environment less than the rich do, or if the consumption patterns of the poor entail proportionally greater environmental degradation than that of the rich. The contributors also find that the effect of inequality on cooperation and environmental sustainability depends critically on the economic and political institutions governing how people interact, and the technical nature of the environmental asset in question. The contributors focus on the local commons because many of the world's poorest depend on them for their livelihoods, and recent research has made great strides in showing how private incentives, group governance, and government policies might combine to protect these resources.

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Baland, Jean-Marie; Bardhan, Pranab K; Bowles, Samuel

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Would Improving The Economic, Social, And Political Condition Of The World's Disadvantaged People Slow - Or Accelerate - Environmental Degradation? In Inequality, Cooperation, And Environmental Sustainability, Leading Social Scientists Provide Answers To This Difficult Question, Using New Research On The Impact Of Inequality On Environmental Sustainability. The Contributors' Findings Suggest That Inequality May Exacerbate Environmental Problems By Making It More Difficult For Individuals, Groups, And Nations To Cooperate In The Design And Enforcement Of Measures To Protect Natural Assets Ranging From Local Commons To The Global Climate. But A More Equal Division Of A Given Amount Of Income Could Speed The Process Of Environmental Degradation - For Example, If The Poor Value The Preservation Of The Environment Less Than The Rich Do, Or If The Consumption Patterns Of The Poor Entail Proportionally Greater Environmental Degradation Than That Of The Rich. The Contributors Also Find That The Effect Of Inequality On Cooperation And Environmental Sustainability Depends Critically On The Economic And Political Institutions Governing How People Interact, And The Technical Nature Of The Environmental Asset In Question.--jacket. Collective Action On The Commons : The Role Of Inequality / Jean-marie Baland And Jean-philippe Platteau -- Inequality And Collective Action / Pranab Bardhan, Maitreesh Ghatak, And Alexander Karaivanov -- Adoption Of A New Regulation For The Governance Of Common-pool Resources By A Heterogenous Population / Marco A. Janssen And Elinor Ostrom -- Inequality And The Governance Of Water Resources In Mexico And South India / Pranab Bardhan And Jeff Dayton-johnson -- Managing Pacific Salmon : The Role Of Distributional Conflicts In Coastal Salish Fisheries / Sara Singleton -- Heterogeneity And Collective Action For Effort Regulation : Lessons From Senegalese Small-scale Fisheries / Frederic Gaspart And Jean-philippe Platteau -- Wealth Inequality And Overexploitation Of The Commons : Field Experiments In Colombia / Juan-camilo Cardenas -- Collective Action For Forest Conservation : Does Heterogeneity Matter? / Eswaran Somanathan, Rajagopal Prabhakar, And Bhupendra Singh Mehta -- Inequality, Collective Action, And The Environment : Evidence From Firewood Collection In Nepal / Jean-marie Baland ... [et Al.] -- Gender Inequality, Cooperation, And Environmental Sustainability / Bina Agarwal -- Inequality And Environmental Protection / James K. Boyce. Edited By Jean-marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, And Samuel Bowles. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

vi, 357 p. : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Collective action on the commons : the role of inequality / Jean-Marie Baland and Jean-Philippe Platteau -- Inequality and collective action / Pranab Bardhan, Maitreesh Ghatak, and Alexander Karaivanov -- Adoption of a new regulation for the governance of common-pool resources by a heterogenous population / Marco A. Janssen and Elinor Ostrom -- Inequality and the governance of water resources in Mexico and South India / Pranab Bardhan and Jeff Dayton-Johnson -- Managing Pacific salmon : the role of distributional conflicts in coastal Salish fisheries / Sara Singleton -- Heterogeneity and collective action for effort regulation : lessons from Senegalese small-scale fisheries / Frederic Gaspart and Jean-Philippe Platteau -- Wealth inequality and overexploitation of the commons : field experiments in Colombia / Juan-Camilo Cardenas -- Collective action for forest conservation : does heterogeneity matter? / Eswaran Somanathan, Rajagopal Prabhakar, and Bhupendra Singh Mehta -- Inequality, collective action, and the environment : evidence from firewood collection in Nepal / Jean-Marie Baland ... [et al.] -- Gender inequality, cooperation, and environmental sustainability / Bina Agarwal -- Inequality and environmental protection / James K. Boyce

Se intenta investigar si la subida del nivel de vida de los países en desarrollo aumentará la degradación mediambiental. En principio se supone que sucederá así, pero también dependerá de las políticas que tomen los gobiernos

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