Justice & nature : Kantian philosophy, environmental policy & the law / John Martin Gillroy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gillroy, John Martin, 1954-

Series:

American governance and public policy

[American governance and public policy series]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

Environmental law--Economic aspects.

Environmental law.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 444 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Other Title:

Justice and nature

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2000]

Contents:

Introduction: Practical Reason, Moral Capacities, and Environmental Choices xxvii

The Critical Argument: Moving beyond Market Assumptions xxviii

The Constructive Argument: Kantian Ethics and Practical Choice xxx

Why Kant? xxxi

Kant's Policy Point of View xxxiii

Justice from Autonomy and Ecosystem Policy Argument xxxvii

Part I Economic Policy Argument and Environmental Metapolicy

1 The Market Paradigm and Comprehensive Policy Argument 3

Practical Reason, Argument, and the Policy Process 3

Policy Design: The Strategy and Tactics of Public Choice 6

The Economic Design Approach and Comprehensive Policy Argument 9

What Is a Paradigm? 9

What Is a Paradigm's Generic Structure? 11

The Market Paradigm and Comprehensive Policy Argument 14

The Logical Process Questions 15

Schema Stage I Question = Why? Answer = Fundamental Assumptions 17

Schema Stage II Question = What? Answer = Operating Principles and Material Conditions 20

Schema Stage III Question = Whether P1, P2, or P3? Answer = Maxims and Methods of Application 22

A Context Model for the Market Paradigm 25

The Concept of Metapolicy 26

The Concepts of Core and Periphery 28

Pride of Place in the Policy Space 30

Model Components, Priorities, and Construction 32

From Strategy to Tactics 34

2 The Theory of Environmental Risk: Preferences, Choice, and Individual Welfare 38

The Economic Viewpoint: From Private Exchange to Public Choice? 39

The Strategic Nature of the Polluter's Dilemma 40

Environmental Risk and the Imprisoned Rider 44

The Unique Character of Environmental Risk 44

Beyond Monetary Cost: Harm to Intrinsic Value 50

Efficiency, Morality, and a "Thin" Theory of Autonomy 52

Cost-Benefit: The Rational and Ethical Justifications? 54

Welfare and Hypothetical Consent: A Metaphysics of Choice 56

Preference: A Metaphysics of Self 63

Public Choice, "Thick" Autonomy, and Respect for Intrinsic Value 69

Environmental Risk and Environmental Values 71

3 The Practice of Environmental Risk: The Market Context Model and Environmental Law 79

Efficiency and Environmental Law 81

Traditional Pollution: Finding the Optimum Level for Efficient Abatement Law and Policy 86

From Traditional Pollution to Risk Abatement 88

Environmental Risk, Efficiency, and the Federal Courts 90

Environmental Risk, Efficiency, and Statute Law 98

"Efficient" Environmental-Risk Law and Policy 106

4 Moving beyond the Market Paradigm: Making Space for "Justice from Autonomy" 111

A Substructure: Uncertainty and Environmental Ethics 113

Anthropomorphic versus Anthropocentric and Ignorance of Mechanism 113

Instrumental versus Intrinsic Value and Modest Benefits 116

Private versus Public Goods and Catastrophic Results 118

Conservationism versus Preservationism and the Zero-Infinity Dilemma 120

A Superstructure: Environmental Risk and Public Administration 121

Responsive versus Anticipatory Institutions and Stealth 121

Efficiency-Based versus Autonomy-Based Policy Instruments and Internal Benefits versus External Costs 122

Private versus Public Management and Collective Risk 124

Incremental versus Comprehensive Policy Planning within the Context of Latency and Irreversibility 125

Ecosystems in Ethical Context 128

Natural Systems: A Point of Departure 131

Human Systems: Artifice and Obligation 132

Toward Ecosystem Policy Design: A Tension of Intrinsic Values 135

Part II A Kantian Paradigm for Ecosystem Policy Argument

The Individual and Nature (see chapter 5) 140

Collective Action (see chapter 6) 141

The State (see chapter 7) 141

Operating Principles (see chapter 7) 142

Material Conditions (see chapter 7) 143

Maxims (see chapter 8) 143

Methods (see chapter 8) 144

Principles, Baseline Method, and Public Policy 144

5 Justice from Autonomy: The Individual and Nature 147

The Three Components of Practical Reason 147

The Internal Capacity to Will Autonomously 148

The External Ability to Choose Morally 159

The Purpose of Moral Agency 169

Individual Autonomy and a Mutual Duty to Justice 175

Our Kantian Duties to Nature 179

Kantian Conservationism 180

Kantian Preservationism 184

Kant's Environmental Imperative: Harmonize Humanity and Nature! 194

6 Justice from Autonomy: Collective Action 200

Practical Reason and Strategic Rationality 200

Moral Agency and Collective Action 202

From the Prisoner's Dilemma to the Assurance Game 205

The Ideal Contract and the Origin of Justice 210

Property Distribution and the Persistence of Collective Action 214

Kantian Practical Reason and Dynamic Collective Action 218

Kantian Communitarianism: Juridical Means to Ethical Ends 225

7 Justice from Autonomy: The Legitimate State 230

The Moral Basis of the Legitimate State 230

The Principle of Autonomy and the Attributes of the Active Citizen 233

Protecting Capacity: Individual Freedom through Ecosystem Integrity 234

Distributing Property: Moral Equality through a Material Baseline 240

Providing Opportunity: Active Citizenship through Civil Independence 246

Public Trust and the Harmony of Freedom 251

Responsive versus Responsible Environmental-Risk Policy 252

Public Trust, Civic Attributes, and the Active Citizen 258

8 Justice from Autonomy: Maxims and Methods 262

Politics, Autonomy, and Public Choice 262

Principles and Maxims for Public Choice 265

Maxim I Protect Ecosystem Integrity! 265

Maxim II Distribute Property! 267

Maxim III Provide Opportunity! 268

Implementing Maxims: Two Distinctions 269

Critical Moral Principles versus Positive Social Conventions 269

Autonomy of Moral Agents versus Preferences of Rational Maximizers 273

From Maxims to Methods 276

A Baseline Methodology for Justice from Autonomy 276

The Baseline as Method? 283

The Kantian Context Model and "Ecosystem" Design 286

Core and Metapolicy 287

Toward a Kantian Context Model 287

A Resources to Recovery Framework for Ecosystem Argument 289

Part III Ecosystem Argument: Applications and Implications

9 The Theory of Environmental Risk Revisited: "Rules of Thumb" for Administrative Decision Making 299

The Theory of Environmental Risk: Uncertainty, Ethics, and Science 299

The Kantian Administrator and Ecosystem Design 310

The Predilections and Reorientation of the Public Manager 317

Economic Theory and the EPA Administrator 319

Groundwater and Aquifers 320

Administrative Analysis and Recommendations 323

Davie: From Economic to Ecosystem Policy Argument 327

10 The Practice of Environmental Risk Revisited: Case Studies in Ecosystem Policy Argument 336

Ecosystem Integrity and the Extraction Decision: The Cases of Wilderness and Wildlife 337

Integrity, Efficiency, and the National Wildlife Refuge 338

Preservation, Conservation, and Legal Wilderness 342

Integrity, Ecosystem Argument, and Preservation 346

Assurance and the Disposal Interface: NIMBY and Comparative Risk 350

NIMBY and the Politics of Assurance 350

Beyond NIMBY: Comparative-Risk Analysis 355

Trusteeship and the Politics of Assurance 360

Trust and the Production Decision: NEPA and FDA Regulation 366

NEPA, Comprehensive Policy Planning, and the Active State 366

Anticipatory Regulation and Social Trust in FDA Regulation 371

Citizen Independence, Trust, and Anticipatory Regulation 375

Ecosystem Policy Argument and the Baseline 379

The Baseline Standard and Political Evaluation 380

Ecosystem Argument in the States: Act 250 and Proposition 65 391

Federal Policy and State Experiments 392

Vermont's Act 250 393

California's Proposition 65 395

Justice and Federal Government 397.

Notes:

Series statement taken from book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-420) and indexes.

ISBN:

0878407952

OCLC:

43859381