Economic Evaluation, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Economic Ethics

A Review with Regard to Climate Change – Figures in the Sustainability Discourse

AvFelix Ekardt

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Del i serien Environmental Humanities: Transformation, Governance, Ethics, Law

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With cost-benefit analysis, economic sciences cultivate a specific decision-making procedure, which has also been partially adopted in politics.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-06-03
Mått:155 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:430 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Environmental Humanities: Transformation, Governance, Ethics, Law
Antal sidor:157
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030992835

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Prof. Dr. Dr. Felix Ekardt is Director of the Research Unit Sustainability and Climate Policy in Leipzig which he founded in 2009. Since 2009, he is also Professor for Public Law and Legal Philosophy at the Rostock University (Faculty of Law) as well as member of the Leibniz Science Campus on Phosphorus Research - as well as member of the Interdisciplinary Faculty (Department Knowledge-Culture-Transformation). His scientific focus as a lawyer, philosopher and sociologist lies in issues around human science sustainability studies (transformation, governance, ethics, law).

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Chapter 1: Problem and Fundaments.-Chapter 2. Idea-historical foundations and dubious (standard) objections to cost-benefit analysis.- Chapter 3. Frictions on the application level: costs and benefits, discounting, uncertainty, fact base.- Chapter 4. Collision of the cost-benefit analysis with liberal-democratic basic principles and the claim of validity of law.- Chapter 5. Cost-benefit analysis without convincing theoretical basis.- Chapter 6. Remaining relevance of cost-benefit elements in balancing.