Understanding the public and common good in the contemporary environmental policy

Bibliographic Data

ID21421600
AuthorsDarko Nadic (0000-0002-4780-9662, University of Belgrade, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume55
Issue4
Pages1590-1609
Publication date2021-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocioloski pregled (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0085-6320 • E-ISSN: 2560-4880
PublisherCentre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5937/socpreg55-35441
OpenAlexW4206916446
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited4

In this paper, the idea of the public and common good is analyzed from the standpoint of the environmental policy as a sort of public policy. The analysis and considerations start from the postulate that public goods in the academic public are most commonly observed as natural resources and that their function is to be used for economic and particularly industrial development. What needs redefining, and what should be changed by the environmental policy, is taking the status of the public good to a higher status, having in mind its general characteristic - irreversibility. That dimension of the future to be possessed by the public good is the basis for the survival of the modern society. The work illustrates the distinction of the idea of the public and common good in practice using the example of the Republic of Serbia in the case of the environmental-political problem caused by the construction of a mini-hydropower plant, i.e. the administrative management of the public and common good

Common good · Dimension (graph theory) · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental policy · Environmental resource management · Function (biology) · Good practice · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public good · Public policy · Work (physics) · Engineering · Law · Regional Development and Management Studies