Would improving the economic, social, and political condition of
the world's disadvantaged people slow--or accelerate--environmental
degradation? In "Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental
Sustainability," leading social scientists provide answers to this
difficult question, using new research on the impact of inequality
on environmental sustainability.
The contributors' findings suggest that inequality may
exacerbate environmental problems by making it more difficult for
individuals, groups, and nations to cooperate in the design and
enforcement of measures to protect natural assets ranging from
local commons to the global climate. But a more equal division of a
given amount of income could speed the process of environmental
degradation--for example, if the poor value the preservation of the
environment less than the rich do, or if the consumption patterns
of the poor entail proportionally greater environmental degradation
than that of the rich. The contributors also find that the effect
of inequality on cooperation and environmental sustainability
depends critically on the economic and political institutions
governing how people interact, and the technical nature of the
environmental asset in question. The contributors focus on the
local commons because many of the world's poorest depend on them
for their livelihoods, and recent research has made great strides
in showing how private incentives, group governance, and government
policies might combine to protect these resources.
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