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The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making: Sustainability, Democracy, and Normative Argument in Policy and Law
- Editor(s): John Martin Gillroy, Joe Bowersox, John Martin Gillroy
- Contributor(s): Joel J. Kassiola, Joe Bowersox, Bryan Norton, John Martin Gillroy, Bob Pepperman Taylor, Barry G. Rabe, Anna K. Schwab, David J. Brower, Jonathan Baert Weiner, Celia Campbell-Mohn, Jan G. Laitos, William R. Lowry, Robert Percival, Robert Paehlke, Susan Buck, Mark Sagoff
- Published: 2002
- Pages: 400
- Illustrations: 5 tables, 1 map
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- Preface
- Introduction: The Roots of Moral Austerity in Environmental Policy Discourse
- Part I. Moral Principles and Environmental Policy: Basic Issues and Dilemmas
- Issue 1: Science as a Substitute for Moral Principles?
- Science as a Substitute for Moral Principle / Susan Buck
- Science Is No Substitute for Moral Principle / Robert Paehlke
- Issue 2: Environmental Justice without Social Justice?
- Why Environmental Thought and Action Must Include Considerations of Social Justice / Joel J. Kassiola
- Environmental Justice: Private Preference or Public Necessity? / Joe Bowersox
- Issue 3: Nature Has Only an Instrumental Value
- Sustainability: Descriptive or Performative? / Bryan Norton
- Are Environmental Values All Instrumental? / Mark Sagoff
- Issue 4: Intrinsic Value Implies No Use and a Threat to Democratic Governance
- A Practical Concept of Natures Intrinsic Value / John Martin Gillroy
- On Intrinsic Value and Environmental Ethics / Bob Pepperman Taylor
- Part II: Case Studies in Sustainable Environmental Policy and Law
- Introduction
- The Subnational Role in Sustainable Development: Lessons from American States and Canadian Provinces / Barry G. Rabe
- Sustainable Development and Natural Hazards Mitigation / Anna K. Schwab and David J. Brower
- Sustainable Governance / Jonathan Baert Wiener
- Sustainability in the United States: Legal Tools and Initiatives / Celia Campbell-Mohn
- Sustainable Development and the Use of Public Lands / Jan G. Laitos
- The Impact of Political Institutions on Preservation of the U.S. and Canadian National Parks / William Lowry
- Global Environmental Accountability: The Missing Link in the Pursuit of Sustainable Development? / Robert V. Percival
- Part III: Moral Principles and Sustainable Environmental Policy: An Analysis of Ends and Means
- Introduction
- Issue I: Science and Sustainability
- Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and Values / Robert Paehlke
- Saving All the Parts: Science and Sustainability / Susan Buck
- Discussion
- Issue 3: A Sustainable Environment as an Instrumental Value?
- The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Environment / Mark Sagoff
- Why Not Foxy Hedgehogs? / Bryan Norton
- Discussion
- Issue 4: A Sustainable Environment as an Intrinsic Value?
- Sustainability: Restricting the Policy Debate / John Martin Gillroy
- Comments on Sustainability / Bob Pepperman Taylor
- Discussion
- Conclusion: Democratic Competence, Accountability, and Education in the Twenty-first Century
- Notes
- References
- Contributors
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- Joel J. Kassiola
- Joe Bowersox
- Bryan Norton
- John Martin Gillroy
- Bob Pepperman Taylor
- Barry G. Rabe
- Anna K. Schwab
- David J. Brower
- Jonathan Baert Weiner
- Celia Campbell-Mohn
- Jan G. Laitos
- William R. Lowry
- Robert Percival
- Robert Paehlke
- Susan Buck
- Mark Sagoff
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"The book is concerned with general issues in environmental policy, yet it maintains a focus on practical concerns. Environmental professionals will find that reading this book is time well spent. . . . This book is highly recommended reading for any environmental professional with a personal or professional interest in the place of moral principles in political debates about environmental policy."—Stephen L. Beck, Environmental Practice
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"The book is concerned with general issues in environmental policy, yet it maintains a focus on practical concerns. Environmental professionals will find that reading this book is time well spent. . . . This book is highly recommended reading for any environmental professional with a personal or professional interest in the place of moral principles in political debates about environmental policy."—Stephen L. Beck, Environmental Practice
Reviews
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“This is an extremely important, in-depth normative discussion among leaders in environmental theory on the values influencing environmental decision making.”—Matthew Cahn, California State University, Northridge
“The best quality of this volume is the lively and engaging discussion among prominent environmental philosophers and political theorists. These contributors make evident how little serious attention is paid to moral principles by policy analysts and how these principles might foster more democratic practices.”—John Meyer, author of Political Nature: Environmentalism and the Interpretation of Western Thought
“The concept of ‘sustainability’ in environmental policy making certainly benefits from the kind of serious philosophical and political analysis it receives in this excellent collection.”—Steven Kelman, Harvard University
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Description
In The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making a group of prominent environmental ethicists, policy analysts, political theorists, and legal experts challenges the dominating influence of market principles and assumptions on the formulation of environmental policy. Emphasizing the concept of sustainability and the centrality of moral deliberation to democracy, they examine the possibilities for a wider variety of moral principles to play an active role in defining “good” environmental decisions. If environmental policy is to be responsible to humanity and to nature in the twenty-first century, they argue, it is imperative that the discourse acknowledge and integrate additional normative assumptions and principles other than those endorsed by the market paradigm.
The contributors search for these assumptions and principles in short arguments and debates over the role of science, social justice, instrumental value, and intrinsic value in contemporary environmental policy. In their discussion of moral alternatives to enrich environmental decision making and in their search for a less austere and more robust role for normative discourse in practical policy making, they analyze a series of original case studies that deal with environmental sustainability and natural resources policy including pollution, land use, environmental law, globalism, and public lands. The unique structure of the book—which features the core contributors responding in a discourse format to the central chapters’ essays and debates—helps to highlight the role personal and public values play in democratic decision making generally and in the field of environmental politics specifically.
The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making will be a valuable resource for policy analysts and theorists alike, as well as for students in public policy, philosophy, political theory, and environmental law, policy, and ethics.Contributors. Joe Bowersox, David Brower, Susan Buck, Celia Campbell-Mohn, John Martin Gillroy, Joel Kassiola, Jan Laitos, William Lowry, Bryan Norton, Robert Paehlke, Barry G. Rabe, Mark Sagoff, Anna K. Schwab, Bob Pepperman Taylor, Jonathan Wiener
About The Author(s)
John Martin Gillroy is MacArthur Professor of Environmental Policy and Law at Bucknell University.
Joe Bowersox is Associate Professor of Politics at Willamette University.