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

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...

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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (308 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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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