Environmental economic,political and ethical integration in a common decision-making framework |
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Authors: | Pablo Martí nez de Anguita,Enrique Alonso,Marí a Á ngeles Martí n |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Environmental Technology, ESCET-Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain;2. Biodiversity UNESCO Chair, ESCET-Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain;3. Department of Natural Resources, University San Pablo CEU, Madrid, Spain |
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Abstract: | This article develops a decision-making framework for environmental management that integrates technical, economic, political and legal, and ethical decision levels. It attempts to show how these decision levels can be ordained, integrated and interconnected and postulates a hierarchic concentric sphere system that proposes an environmental management model for long-term solutions. This model can be used as a check list for environmental management decision-making and also as a guide for environmental conflict resolution where environmental problems necessitate several levels of decision making. It integrates various environmental ethical positions and evaluates political decisions into a comprehensive, broadly applicable multidisciplinary approach. The objective of this decision-making model is to interconnect into a simplified sequence different levels of environmental management processes in order to account for sustainability, efficacy, efficiency and the acceptability of environmental management processes in the long term. This is done by observing when an environmental problem needs to be solved within a certain sphere of solutions and when it requires wider frameworks, how these can be established and how this process proves that solidarity is the widest and most reasonable sphere. |
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Keywords: | Environmental policy Environmental economics Environmental ethics Solidarity Concentric spheres model Lexicographic preferences |
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