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Environmental dilemmas and policy design /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Environmental dilemmas and policy design // Huib Pellikaan and Robert J. van der Veen.
remainder title:	Environmental Dilemmas & Policy Design
Author:	Pellikaan, Huib,
other author:	Veen, Robert J. van der,
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 247 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Environmental policy - Netherlands. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511491061
ISBN:	9780511491061 (ebook)

Environmental dilemmas and policy design /
Pellikaan, Huib,

Environmental dilemmas and policy design /Environmental Dilemmas & Policy DesignHuib Pellikaan and Robert J. van der Veen. - 1 online resource (xiv, 247 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Theories of institutional design. - Theories of institutional design..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Environmental pollution as a problem of collective action --Part I. Background --

According to the logic of collective action, mere awareness of the causes of environmental degradation will not motivate rational agents to reduce pollution. Yet some government policies aim to enlist citizens in schemes of voluntary cooperation, drawing on an ethos of collective responsibility. Are such policies doomed to failure? This book provides a novel application of rational choice theory to a large-scale survey of environmental attitudes in The Netherlands. Its main findings are that rational citizens are motivated to cooperate towards a less polluted environment to a large extent, but that their willingness to assume responsibility depends on the social context of the collective action problem they face. This empirical study is an important volume in the development of a more consistent foundation for rational choice theory in policy analysis, which seeks to clarify major theoretical issues concerning the role of moral commitment, self-interest and reciprocity in environmental behaviour.

ISBN: 9780511491061 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

559805
Environmental policy
--Netherlands.

LC Class. No.: GE190.N45 / P45 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 363.7/05/09492

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