Reconsidering environmental policy: Prescriptive consequentialism and volitional pragmatism

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-99

  Bromley, Daniel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective action; Consequentialism; Environmental policy; Pragmatism; Volitional pragmatism

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; RATIONAL AGENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; POLICY ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 3442896030     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EARE.0000023821.33379.b7     Document Type: Review

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