Environmental Risk, Environmental Values, And Political Choices: Beyond Efficiency Tradeoffs In Public Policy Analysis

by John Martin Gillroy (Editor)

Overview

Public decisions on environmental risk have traditionally been weighed in terms of the principle of efficiency and its methodologies, such as cost-benefit and risk-benefit analysis. These original essays argue for moving beyond the market paradigm toward making policy that incorporates environmental values. Scholars representing a broad range of disciplines present a thorough analysis and methodological investigation of environmental risk and the potential for integrating environmental values into the policymaking process. They address the normative and theoretical roots of environmental risk, describe the distinct domain that exists for environmental values as opposed to economic values, and look at the conflicts between economic and environmental values within the applied context of the NIMBY (not in my back yard) phenomenon.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367016128
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/07/2019
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Christopher J. Bosso is associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University. He is author of Pesticides and Politics: The Life Cycle of a Public Issue (1987) and winner of the Policy Studies Organization award for the best book in policy studies. John H. Portz is associate professor and director of graduate programs in the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University. He is author of The Politics of Plant Closings (1990) and co-author of City Schools and City Politics (1999). Portz also serves as an elected town councilor in the city of Watertown, Massachusetts. Michael C. Tolley is associate professor and director of the undergraduate program in the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University. Among Prof. Tolley's works are State Constitutionalism in Maryland (1992), Courts of Admiralty in Colonial America (1995), and the forthcoming Freedom, Rule of Law, and Democracy in the United States and Britain.

Table of Contents

Introduction — Value Domains, Integrity, and Policy Argument — Integrity, Intrinsic Value, and the Analysis of Environmental Risk — Moral Domains, Economic Instrumentalism, and the Roots of Environmental Values — Environmentalism: Values to Politics to Policy — Value Conflicts, Domain Trade–offs, and Political Cooperation — The Nature of Environmental Values — Environmental Values and Democratic Institutions — Science, Environmental Values, and Policy Prescriptions — Environmental Values and the NIMBY Syndrome — Partisan Politics, Economic Growth, and the Roots of NIMBY: The Case of Montpellier, France — Environmental Values, the Economic Ethos, and NIMBY: The Rhode Island Case — Intrinsic Value and Public Policy Choice: The Alberta Case — Epilogue: Environmental Values and Economic Trade–offs— Conflict and Compromise