ABSTRACT
The environment is the most encompassing of the domains associated with public good, as well as the domain in which critical engagement with processes of interdependence has most explicitly been worked into the making of public policy. Perhaps more importantly, it is also the domain in which the broader public first became aware of the complex interrelatedness characterizing the public sphere as a whole and of how even relatively localized patters of ill-directed or qualitatively degrading interdependence can have globally adverse effects.
