Environmental Damage as Negative Externality: Uncertainty, Moral Complexity and the Limits of the Market

The economic concept of negative externalities is the dominant frame in environmental policies. Revisiting environmental damage with a sociological approach, I show how the process of externalities definition and internalisation is a political process in which a public is constituted and common prob...

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Main Author: Laura Centemeri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra 2009-09-01
Series:e-cadernos ces
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/eces/266
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