Contents

1. The Environment as Our Common Heritage
2. Is Inequality Bad for the Environment?
3. In the Wake of the Storm: Disasters and Environmental Justice
4. Justice in the Air: Tracking America’s Industrial Toxics
5. Where Credit is Due
6. Cap and Dividend: Carbon Revenue as Common Wealth
7. A Chinese Sky Trust
8. A Future for Small Farms
9. Globalization and Our Environmental Future Index

‘If you’re interested in the cutting-edge of the very best thinking on economics and the environment, it’s right here. Boyce has done a masterful job integrating issues of equity and ecological thinking into economics, and presenting deep and important ideas accessibly with the latest research to back them up. Not just recommended, but essential.’
– Juliet Schor, Boston College, author of True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans are Creating a Time-rich, Ecologically-light, Small-scale, High-satisfaction Economy

‘A colleague of mine puts it best: when thinking about the fundamentals of the economy and the environment, there is Pigou, Coase, and Boyce. Boyce adds to traditional economics the critical understanding that social power is a determinant of the extent and spatial scale of environmental degradation. In these essays, on subjects ranging from housing and credit markets to agriculture and globalization, Boyce mixes a data-driven picture of unequal environmental protection with a keen and useful discussion of the many forms of social power that can help right the scales.’
– Eban Goodstein, Bard College