Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making

John Martin Gillroy

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.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

Sujets

• Droit et juridique
• Environmental science

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 17 juin 2002
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822383468
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making

The Moral Austerity of Environmental

Decision Making

Sustainability, Democracy,

and Normative Argument in Policy and Law

Edited by John Martin Gillroy

and Joe Bowersox

DUKE UNI VERS I TY PRES S

Durham & London 2002

∫2002 Duke University Press

All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America on acidfree paper$

Typeset in Trump Mediaeval by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data appear

on the last printed page of this book.

Contents

Figures and Tables

Preface

xi

ix

Introduction: The Roots of Moral Austerity in Environmental Policy Discourse 1

Part I. Moral Principles and Environmental Policy: Basic Issues and Dilemmas

Issue 1: Science as a Substitute for Moral Principle?

Science as a Substitute for Moral Principle /Susan Buck

25

Science Is No Substitute for Moral Principle /Robert Paehlke

Issue 2: Environmental Justice without Social Justice?

30

Why Environmental Thought and Action Must Include Considerations of Social Justice /Joel J. Kassiola37

Environmental Justice: Private Preference or Public Necessity? Joe Bowersox43

Issue 3: Nature Has Only an Instrumental Value

Sustainability: Descriptive or Performative? /Bryan Norton

Are Environmental Values All Instrumental? /Mark Sagoff

51

62

Issue 4: Intrinsic Value Implies No Use and a Threat to Democratic Governance

A Practical Concept of Nature’s 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

89

The Subnational Role in Sustainable Development: Lessons from American States and Canadian Provinces /Barry G. Rabe

91

72

79

Sustainable Development and Natural Hazards Mitigation /Anna K. Schwab and David J. Brower115

Sustainable Governance /Jonathan Baert Wiener

131

Sustainability in the United States: Legal Tools and Initiatives Celia Campbell-Mohn145

Sustainable Development and the Use of Public Lands /Jan G. Laitos

The Impact of Political Institutions on Preservation of U.S. and Canadian National Parks /William Lowry176

Global Environmental Accountability: The Missing Link in the Pursuit of Sustainable Development? /Robert V. Percival194

Part III. Moral Principles and Sustainable Environmental Policy: An Analysis of Ends and Means

Introduction

209

Issue 1: Science and Sustainability

Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and Values /Robert Paehlke

Saving All the Parts: Science and Sustainability /Susan Buck

Discussion

vi

227

Contents

219

161

212

Issue 2: Environmental Policy, Sustainability, and Social Justice

Why Environmental Public Policy Analysis Must Include Explicit Normative Considerations: Reflections on Seven Illustrations Joel J. Kassiola236

Sustainability and Environmental Justice: A Necessary Connection /Joe Bowersox247

Discussion

254

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

284

276

Issue 4: A Sustainable Environment as an Intrinsic Value?

262

Sustainability: Restricting the Policy Debate /John Martin Gillroy

Comments on Sustainability /Bob Pepperman Taylor

Discussion

307

Conclusion: Democratic Competence, Accountability, and Education in the Twentyfirst Century 314

Notes

341

References

351

Contributors

Index

377

375

301

291

Contents

vii

Figures and Tables

Figures

1. The Metapolicy Model

7

2. Completing Canada’s National Park System

Tables

184

1. Recreation Benefits in the NFS and BLM Lands

2. Benefits of Preservation

169

168

3. Benefits from Commodity Uses, Recreation, and Preservation

4. NPS Construction Funding

182

5. Banff–Bow Valley Study Recommendations

190

171