In this chapter we assess the role of economics in governance for sustainable development. Firstly, we ask how has the‘mainstream’ environmental and resource economics paradigm helped us understand the … read more »
Paavola, J. August 2008. Environmental Politics, v.17, pp.644-659.
Environmental cost-benefit analysis, or CBA, refers to the economic appraisal of policies and projects that have the deliberate aim of improving the provision of environmental services or actions that … read more »
There may never have been an instance of environmental pollution to challenge our powers of analysis and evaluation quite like climate change. Global in its causes and consequences, spanning … read more »
Seyfang, G., and Paavola, J. December 2008. Local Environment, v.13, pp.669-684.
This article examines the potential for cross-fertilisation between the sustainable consumption scholarship and the environmental justice scholarship. The article first maps the two areas of scholarship, discussing the cognitive, social marketing and social provisioning systems literatures of sustainable consumption and the empirical and conceptual literature on environmental justice. The article then discusses the potential for […]
Within the context of broader debates on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental justice (EJ), this paper examines three key questions: first, how the standards that corporations adopt at the global scale trickle down into local site-level practices; second, whether levels of corporate environmental performance vary from place to place; and third whether any variations […]
Paavola J (2006), In: Adger WN; Paavola J; Huq S; Mace MJ (Ed) Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change, The MIT Press, pp.201-222.
This article examines social justice aspects of international environmental governance, analysing adaptation to climate change as an example. The article first discusses how international environmental regimes have been examined, suggesting that understanding them as responses to environmental conflicts better highlights their social justice aspects. The article argues that distributive and procedural justice in the society […]
