Risk, Resilience, Inequality and Environmental Law, edited by Bridget M HUTTER (2017)

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Lost Land of the Dodo: The Ecological History of Mauritius, Reunion, and Rodrigues. A. Cheke and J. Hume. 2008. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 480 pp. $55.00. (hardcover) Just over 200 years ago, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre served with the French military on a small Indian Ocean island we now call Mauritius. He was inspired by its lush forests and volcanic geography to set an...

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Inequality and Environmental Protection

Social and economic inequalities can influence both the distribution of the costs and benefits from environmental degradation and the extent of environmental protection. When those who benefit from environmentally degrading economic activities are powerful relative to those who bear the costs, environmental protection is generally weaker than when the reverse is true. This can lead to environme...

Inequality and Environmental Sustainability

* The author is a Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the Development Policy Analysis Division of UN DESA. He would like to thank Gregroy Mikkelson and Danny Dorling for their comments on previous versions the paper. Thanks are also due to the participants of the Expert Group Meeting held in 2014 where this paper was presented. Particular thanks are due to the anonymous referee, whose substantiv...