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Environmental Values 25 (6):633-637 (2016)

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  1. Moderate Emissions Grandfathering.Carl Knight - 2014 - Environmental Values 23 (5):571-592.
    Emissions grandfathering holds that a history of emissions strengthens an agent’s claim for future emission entitlements. Though grandfathering appears to have been influential in actual emission control frameworks, it is rarely taken seriously by philosophers. This article presents an argument for thinking this an oversight. The core of the argument is that members of countries with higher historical emissions are typically burdened with higher costs when transitioning to a given lower level of emissions. According to several appealing views in political (...)
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  • Environmental Injustice, Political Agency and the Challenge of Creating Healthier Communities.Megs S. Gendreau - 2016 - Environmental Values 25 (6):707-728.
    I argue that our current understanding of the philosophical dimensions of environmental injustice neglects an important component of those injustices. Specifically, by focusing on distributive, participatory and recognitional injustice, we fail to respond to the ways that environmental exposures, even in the absence of physiological harms, can impact upon a person's experience of herself as a political agent. This has important implications for interventions in cases of environmental injustice, but also for how we understand what is required for full participation (...)
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  • The Building of a Dam: Value Conflicts in Public Decision-Making.Ana Costa, José Castro Caldas, Ricardo Coelho, Maria De FáTima Ferreiro & Vasco Gonçalves - 2016 - Environmental Values 25 (2):215-234.
    Public decisions concerning large projects with detrimental environmental or heritage impacts involve value conflicts which stem from the diverse interests and variety of ways of evaluating the costs and benefits of such projects. They are also framed by institutionalised procedures and practices which favour certain concerns to the detriment of others. This paper aims to contribute towards a better understanding of how these procedures and practices, namely decision support tools such as the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), tend to shape public (...)
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  • Civil Disobedience, Climate Protests and a Rawlsian Argument for ‘Atmospheric’ Fairness.Simo Kyllönen - 2014 - Environmental Values 23 (5):593-613.
    Activities protesting against major polluters who cause climate change may cause damage to private property in the process. This paper investigates the case for a more international general basis of moral justification for such protests. Specific reference is made to the Kingsnorth case, which involved a protest by Greenpeace against coal-powered electricity generation in the UK. An appeal is made to Rawlsian fairness arguments, traditionally employed to support the obligation of citizens to their national governments as opposed to their international (...)
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  • Deliberating Intergenerational Environmental Equity: A Pragmatic, Future Studies Approach.Matthew Cotton - 2013 - Environmental Values 22 (3):317-337.
    Across the applied ethics literatures are a growing number of ethical tools: decision-support methodologies that encourage multi-stakeholder deliberative engagement with the social and moral issues arising from technology assessment and environmental management processes. This article presents a novel ethical tool for deliberation on the issue of environmental justice between current and future generations over long time frames. This ethical tool combines two approaches, linking John Dewey's concept of dramatic rehearsal – an em-pathetic and imaginative ethical deliberation process; with the methodologies (...)
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  • Geographers versus Managers: Expert Influence on the Construction of Values Underlying Flood Insurance in the United States.Emmy Bergsma - 2016 - Environmental Values 25 (6):687-705.
    A democratic premise is that expert influence should not extend into the political domain of environmental policymaking. This article analyses the relationship between experts and policymakers in the historical development of the National Flood Insurance Program as a flood governance strategy in the United States. The article draws three conclusions. First, while experts asserted great influence on the development of this policy program, underlying values were evaluated and judged by policymakers. Second, as socio-political values changed, new types of experts were (...)
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  • An Engineering Approach to Sustainable Decision Making.Kelly Bryck & Naoko Ellis - 2016 - Environmental Values 25 (6):639-662.
    Climate change is often tackled via a two-pronged approach of behaviour change and technological advancement. Policy studies and social sciences generally take ownership of influencing behaviours, while natural sciences and engineering tackle generating newer, more efficient technologies. Fusion of these methodologies is severely lacking. Engineers are uniquely situated to contribute to positive environmental action in both technological and behavioural realms. This article explores the psychological mindset of engineers as they make decisions to dissect factors that undermine sustainable behaviour. The Theory (...)
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  • Equity and ITQs: About Fair Distribution in Quota Management Systems in Fisheries.Ralf Doering, Leyre Goti, Lorena Fricke & Katharina Jantzen - 2016 - Environmental Values 25 (6):729-749.
    Fish stocks, as common pool resources, are more and more managed by giving fishermen exclusive access rights as Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQ). These have been widely discussed, with focus on social, economic and ecological issues. While equity aspects have been of great concern, there is very limited analysis about how to assess issues of equity and fair distribution when introducing ITQs. This paper applies an existing framework for assessing equity in resource use systems to tradable quota systems in fisheries. The (...)
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  • Social Ecological Transformation and the Individual.Clive L. Spash - 2016 - Environmental Values 25 (3):253-258.
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  • Regime Learning in Global Environmental Governance.Bernd Hackmann - 2016 - Environmental Values 25 (6):663-686.
    An increasingly complex governance architecture has become a major characteristic of current global environmental governance, often resulting in different degrees of complexity and fragmentation within global environmental regimes. Social learning processes are introduced by scholars and policy makers alike as management approaches for governing complex dynamic systems in situations that feature a high degree of complexity and uncertainty. Scholars argue that actors in complex environmental issue areas can learn in their social context and could develop the necessary knowledge, attitudes and (...)
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