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
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