UM academic Dr Marie Briguglio (Department of Economics) has teamed up with cartoonist and illustrator Steve Bonello to publish a new reader focusing on the themes of environmental economics, behaviour and policy entitled 'No Man’s Land: People Place Pollution'.
Described as a tragi-comic exposition of people polluting public places, the book draws upon three decades’ worth of environmental cartoons published in the Sunday Times of Malta and combines them with research on Malta’s environmental pressures, status and responses. Running into 240 pages, the contents include a peer-reviewed text, almost 200 references, a detailed index and no fewer than 233 illustrations.
Its eight chapters cover themes like public space, roads and traffic congestion, over-development and construction, hunting and trapping, noise, air pollution and waste, water depletion and climate change, as well as environmental regulation, voluntary cooperation and intervention design.
Dr Marie Briguglio explains: “Steve’s cartoons are a clever and fun way to illustrate theories and concepts from environmental economics like the tragedy of the commons, the theory of externalities or the theory of public goods, for instance. They also provide a vivid timeline of Malta’s environmental story.”
The book is available at the Library, at the campus bookstore and .
