RATIONALIZING ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION-MAKING THROUGH ECONOMIC VALUATION? Cover Image

RATIONALIZING ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION-MAKING THROUGH ECONOMIC VALUATION?
RATIONALIZING ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION-MAKING THROUGH ECONOMIC VALUATION?

Author(s): Yves Meinard
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Environmental and Energy policy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: environmental valuation; decision support; justification; inequalities; rationalization;

Summary/Abstract: Environmental economic valuations are often presented as means to rationalize decision-making. A critical blind spot of this argument is that it ignores pervasive environmental inequalities. The author of article criticizes the literature entrenching this credentials of economic approaches to rationalize decision-making and argues that the key for economic valuations to truly contribute to rationalization is that their usage should be embedded in the deployment of what is called a justificatory task. Then the author takes advantage of an analysis of the notion of rationality, when applied to decision-aiding processes, to translate this reasoning into the concrete terms of applications of environmental economic valuations.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 169-192
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: English
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