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Environmental policy and the law of unintended consequences

20 May 2010

The authors of this study have worked independently and the opinions expressed are therefore their own, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the board of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. [...] The unintended reactions of importance of the law of unintended the various actors are often harmful, consequences to the development of and in some cases result in outcomes environmental policy, and demonstrate that are the exact opposite of what the the need for humility and caution on the government sought to bring about through part of policymakers when they consider the intervention. [...] With the ecosystem was not in a state of crisis in cats eliminated, the island’s population of the 1960s, as the survival of the island’s rats exploded. [...] As the rats’ diet included major species was not threatened,1 but the eggs and chicks of the native seabirds, the situation was undesirable from a the huge growth in the rat population conservationist point of view. [...] By discussing the ways in which some past environmental “The law of unintended protection measures backfired, this paper will illustrate the importance of the consequences will law of unintended consequences to the therefore always be development of environmental policy, and demonstrate the need for humility and with us.
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Authors

Eisen, Ben

Pages
34
Published in
Canada

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