題 目：The Polluter-Pays Principle: From Environmental to Social Policy
主講人：Prof. Dr. Isidor Wallimann Colgate University, USA
時間：2011年12月5日 下午2:00-3:30
地點：主樓418會議室
主講人簡介：
Professor Isidor Wallimann holds an MA in economics and agriculture from Kansas State and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Syracuse University. He recently retired from his positions at the University of Applied Sciences Northwest Switzerland and from the University of Freiburg in Switzerland. He has published numerous books in English and German, such as ESTRANGEMENT: MARX’S CONCEPTION OF HUMAN NATURE AND THE DIVISION OF LABOR; GENOCIDE AND THE MODERN AGE (translated into Korean) and ON THE EDGE OF SCARCITY (translated into German). His forthcoming book is entitled ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IS SOCIAL POLICY – SOCIAL POLICY IS ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY. As a visiting professor, he has been invited to universities in the United States, China, and Taiwan. He has lectured worldwide and served the Swiss National Science Foundation as an expert in social policy research programs.
內容簡介：
What can we learn from environmental policy about how we might deal with such social problems as alcoholism, drug addiction, the impact of smoking, unemployment, and job burn-out, etc.? The "polluter pays principle" has gained wide recognition in the realm of environmental policy. It is anchored in the observation that environmental damages and associated problems fall not upon those actors whose behaviours have caused the problem in the first place, but instead upon various third parties (the damage is “distributed outwards” or “externalized”). The polluter-pays-principle assumes that actors would avoid or at least reduce harmful behaviour if they were constrained or if they had to absorb the cost to third parties (internalize costs). The presentation is based the articles on Professor Wallimann’s books published in German (one of which will shortly be published in translation by Syracuse University Press). Professor Wallimann will discuss both ways of extending this approach to social policy in general and some limits in doing so.
