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Rationality, institutions and environmental policy

Ecological Economics, 2005
Abstract This paper is about how institutions determine choices and the importance of this for environmental policy. The model of individual rational choice from neoclassical economics is compared with the model of socially determined behavior.
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Rationality and Pro-Environmental Behavior Introduction

Revue d'économie politique, 2014
CT 2 ; International ...
Marciano, Alain, Roussel, Sébastien
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Discourses of Environmental Rationality: Three Rationalities

2003
Abstract Environmental planning is, therefore, constituted by a procedural rationality. However, it has been emphasized that policy practice is also shaped and legitimated by substantive rationalities, what V. Ostrom, Feeny, and Picht (1988: 458) call ‘different grammars of choice’.
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Forging an Environmental Rationality for a Sustainable Future [PDF]

Development, 2011
Enrique Leff is a philosopher and environmentalist from Mexico who focuses his work on fields of epistemology, the political ecology, and environmental education. His work has inspired many and he has continued to educate the public in Mexico as well as internationally through his involvement with the United Nations Environment Program.
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Environmental sustainability—an essential component of rational use of medicines

International Journal of Pharmacy Practice
Abstract Human-use medicines are introduced into surface water throughout their entire life cycle, from manufacturing and consumption to improper disposal, resulting in negative effects on aquatic flora and fauna. Sustainability approaches have addressed this issue, proposing frameworks like the One Health approach.
Giunchi, V, Fusaroli, M, Linder, E, Villén, J, Raschi, E, Lunghi, C, Wettermark, B, Poluzzi, E, Nekoro, M   +8 more
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Rationalizing the Environmental Policy Process

2003
Abstract It has been emphasized that deliberative processes need a discursive context, a ‘discursive net’. Creating a practical version of communicative rationality that is actively used within the policy process would provide this. In effect, what is required is a justification for a specific policy approach or a legitimation of such a ...
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Redefining Rational Choice in Environmental Affairs

International Studies Review, 2004
Environmental Dilemmas and Policy Design. By Huib Pellikaan, Robert J. van der Veen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 247 pp., $65.00 cloth (ISBN: 0-521-62156-9), $23.00 paper (ISBN: 0-521-62764-8). In Environmental Dilemmas and Policy Design , Huib Pellikaan and Robert van der Veen present an empirical study of environmental attitudes in ...
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Rational Environmental Management of Agrochemicals

2007
Overview 1. Achieving rational use of agrochemicals: Environmental chemistry in action Environmental Fate and Risk Assessment 2. Simple fugacity models of off-site exposure to agrochemicals 3. Pesticide risk indicators - Their role in minimising off-site impacts of pesticides on water quality. 4.
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Environmental Rationality and the End of Natural Dialectic

2021
The environmental crisis has brought about the questioning of its historical causes, the structure of the dominant modes of thinking and understanding the ontology of Being and beings—the Real, history, world, life, things—that ended up alienating res cogitans from res extensa, culture from Nature.
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Rationalizing environmental responsibilities

Global Environmental Change, 1996
Carolyn M Harrison, Jacquelin Burgess, Petra Filius   +2 more
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