Dear GEPEd Members, With apologies for self-promotion, the following article published in Ecological Economics may be relevant to your research and teaching interests. A link to freely available PDF follows at the end.
Best, Prakash Inequality, democracy, and the environment: A cross-national analysisThis paper joins the debate on the relationship between inequality and the environment. Departing from the past contributions, which focused either on the theories of environmental behavior or on economic interests, this paper develops arguments about “political choice” mechanisms that help explain the linkages between inequality and national policymaking related to the establishment of protected areas. A cross-national analysis of the interactions between inequality, democracy and the legal designation of protected areas in a global sample of 137 countries shows that, ceteris paribus, the effects of inequality vary depending on the strength of democracy: in relatively democratic countries inequality is associated with less land in protected areas, whereas in relatively undemocratic countries the reverse is true. The highly significant effects of inequality undermine the democratic dividend in the arena of nature conservation. http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Tf5g3Hb~073D7 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Prakash Kashwan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science University of Connecticut 365 Fairfield Way, Storrs, CT 06269 Phone: 860-486-7951 http://prakash-kashwan.uconn.edu/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
