Environmental Organizations and Reasoned Discourse

ISBN-13: 9783030756086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Richard M. Robinson

Opis

This book explores the meaning and role of “fair and reasoned discourse” in thecontext of our institutions for environmental decision processes. The bookreviews the roles of our “environmental advocacy organizations”—such as TheSierra Club, The Audubon Society, the Environmental Defense Fund—in providingand ensuring that our discourse and decisions are fair and reasoned according tothe criteria of being (i) inclusive of input from all affected, (ii) informed of relevantscientific and socio-economic information, (iii) uncorrupted by direct conflicts ofinterest, and (iv) logical according robust review by uncorrupted judges. Theseorganizations are described and examined as expressions of “collective imperfectduty,” i.e. the coordinated duties with environmental direction. The current stateof our discourse is examined in light of this fairness criteria, particularly inconsideration of the cross-border problems that threaten tragedies of the globalcommons.

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction: The Issues to be Confronted

Chapter 1: The Normative Elements of Our Social Discourse and the Environmental Issues to be Confronted

Part II: The Philosophy of Environmental Duty

Chapter 2: Our Reasoned Environmental Discourse and Derived Duties: Constructivism as a Moral Process

Chapter 3: Recognizing Environmental Duties

Chapter 4: The Philosophy of Community and the Environmental Ethic

Part III: The Rhetoric of Environmental Discourse

Chapter 5: Some Rhetoric of Environmental Equity and Economic Efficiency

Chapter 6: The Environment as an Input to Production and as a Provider of Amenities

Chapter 7: Reaching Unbiased and Stable Environmental Decisions Through Fair and Reasoned Discourse

Part IV: The Necessities for and Contributions of Our Environmental Organizations

Chapter 8: Human Caused Climate Change and Its Deniers

Chapter 9: Duty, Environmental Advocacy Organizations, and the Commons

Chapter 10: The Current State of Environmental Discourse: Is it “Fair” or Otherwise?

Chapter 11: Some Environmental Organizations and Their “Fair and Reasoned” Contributions

Chapter 12: Common Property Resources and the Making of the Global Tragedy

O autorze

Richard M. Robinson is Professor of Business at SUNY Fredonia, USA, and

the author of The Imperfect Duties of Management (2020), and numerous

peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles ( Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of

Economics and Finance, Journal of Financial Research, and many other scholarly

journals). He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Oregon, USA.

Blurb

This book explores the meaning and role of “fair and reasoned discourse” in the context of our institutions for environmental decision processes. The book reviews the roles of our “environmental advocacy organizations”—such as The Sierra Club, The Audubon Society, the Environmental Defense Fund—in providing and ensuring that our discourse and decisions are fair and reasoned according to the criteria of being (i) inclusive of input from all affected, (ii) informed of relevant scientific and socio-economic information, (iii) uncorrupted by direct conflicts of interest, and (iv) logical according robust review by uncorrupted judges. These organizations are described and examined as expressions of “collective imperfect duty,” i.e. the coordinated duties with environmental direction. The current state of our discourse is examined in light of this fairness criteria, particularly in consideration of the cross-border problems that threaten tragedies of the global commons.

Richard M. Robinson is Professor of Business at SUNY Fredonia, USA.