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Economics, Ecology, and the New Green CAP
Ökonomie, Ökologie und die Neue Grüne GAP
L’économie, l’écologie et la Nouvelle PAC Verte
Author(s) -
Mueller Rolf A.E.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
eurochoices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.487
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1746-692X
pISSN - 1478-0917
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-692x.2011.00192.x
Subject(s) - library science , valuation (finance) , web of science , humanities , political science , geography , philosophy , economics , computer science , law , medline , finance
To be respectable, policy must not be in conflict with scientific principles and it ought to be informed by scientific information. Economics has provided much of the rationale and respectability for the old CAP, when efficiency of food production and equity of income distribution were the dominant concerns. Sustainability and the environment are, however, domains for which economics can hardly claim exclusive rights: since its inception ecology has regarded both domains as its native land.