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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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Setting rational environmental goals: Five Swedish environmental quality objectives

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2007
Goals and performance targets are commonly used as tools in the policy-implementation process. In Sweden, environmental policy is operationalized through a system of environmental quality objective ...
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Morality and Rationality in Environmental Policy

Journal of Consumer Policy, 1999
The "Moralist" camp takes environmental morale to be essential in order to save nature. The "Rationalist" camp, mainly represented by economists, takes market-based instruments solely relying on extrinsic motivation to be both necessary and sufficient for a successful environmental policy.
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Concepts of Rationality in Environmental Economics

SSRN Electronic Journal, 1998
After a short description of the economic model of behaviour first the weak rationality assumption in this model is discussed. As the assumption of self-interest is often seen to be an integral part of the economic model, we also discuss this assumption and its role in economic theorising.
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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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From rationality to reasonableness in environmental administration

Journal of Management History, 1999
The administrative state is situated in a physical and ecological context that requires a conceptualisation of rationality broader than the instrumental rationality that characterizes most administrative theorising. Various scholars have contributed to clarifying some aspects of the needed broader conceptualisation, particularly with respect to focuses
Robert V. Bartlett, Walter F. Baber
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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 risk: potential rational borrower behaviour

Journal of Property Finance, 1995
Addresses the conceptual consequences of rational behaviour in the context of potential outcomes from environmental risk. Identifies the main scenarios faced by a borrower and the behaviour one might expect given the circumstances. Focuses on the implications of borrower behaviour.
John C. Groth, Mark W. Baumann
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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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Rationalizing environmental responsibilities

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