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Helps to define fairness in environmental discourseUses Kantian constructivism and Rawlsian extensions to provide an ethical-philosophical empirical
Considers the role of environmental coalitions (NGOs) in reasoned discourse
Part of the book series: Environmental Politics and Theory (EPT)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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 imperfectduty,” 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.
Keywords
- Environmental discourse
- Reasoned environmental discourse
- Kantian constructivism
- Environmental Coalitions
- Generational equity
- environmental ethics
- Community Ethics
- Environmental Communication
- Philosophy of Community
- NGOs
- fair and reasoned discourse
- moral construction
- environmental advocacy
- environmental organizations
- collective imperfect duty
- reasoned social discource
- environmental amenities
- Endangered Species Act
Authors and Affiliations
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Business Administration, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, USA
Richard M. Robinson
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Organizations and Reasoned Discourse
Authors: Richard M. Robinson
Series Title: Environmental Politics and Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75606-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75605-5Published: 06 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75608-6Published: 07 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75606-2Published: 05 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2731-670X
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6718
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 358
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Political Communication, Non-Profit Organizations and Public Enterprises, Media and Communication