Information environmentalism : : a governance framework for intellectual property rights / / Robert Cunningham.

• Author: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• VerfasserIn: Cunningham, Robert,
• TeilnehmendeR: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

Information Environmentalism applies four environmental analytical frameworks - ecology, 'the commons', public choice theory, and welfare economics - to the information environment. The book neatly captures the metaphorical relationship between the physical environment and the information environment by alluding to the environmental philosophy of 'social ecology' and the emergent informational discourse of 'cultural environmentalism'. The book aims to develop, refine and integrate the theoretical foundations of cultural environmentalism based on the Dewey premise that 'there is nothing so prac

Table of Contents

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; 1. Introduction: [Enter Stage] Information environmentalism; PART I Welfare economics; 2. Information paradox and public goods; 3. Externalities and monopolies; PART II The commons; 4. Information commons; 5. Tragedy of (ignoring) the information semicommons; PART III Ecology; 6. The social ecology of information environmental governance; 7. Should the information commons have standing?; 8. Rational truths, reasonable arguments and rhetorical imagination; PART IV Public choice theory; 9. Public choice theory and social production

10. Constitutional economics and the separation of (economic) powerPART V Conclusion; 11. Control, alt, delete: Towards an information environmental governance framework; Notes; Glossary; Index