TY - JOUR
T1 - Getting the safe minimum standard to work in the real world
T2 - A case study in moral pragmatism
AU - Farmer, M. C.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - There is growing endorsement of local stake-holder conventions to resolve unusual environmental disputes. The conventions are separate decision-making bodies designed to by-pass conventional institutions. The hazards of a stake-holder convention which is overly-detached from conventional decision-making leads to a discourse that never successfully confronts the value controversies which the stake-holder convention is charged to resolve. A case study uncovers obvious and robust strategic manipulations of stake-holder conventions that intrude on value dialogue. An appeal to the safe minimum standard rules of Ciriacy-Wantrup, updated to engage this question, successfully corrects some of the more egregious stumbling blocks to good faith dialogue in local discourse. The proposed constraints on the stake-holder convention can be quite directive, authoritative and bureaucratic, yet the constraints are necessary to preserve good faith conduct within the dialogue.
AB - There is growing endorsement of local stake-holder conventions to resolve unusual environmental disputes. The conventions are separate decision-making bodies designed to by-pass conventional institutions. The hazards of a stake-holder convention which is overly-detached from conventional decision-making leads to a discourse that never successfully confronts the value controversies which the stake-holder convention is charged to resolve. A case study uncovers obvious and robust strategic manipulations of stake-holder conventions that intrude on value dialogue. An appeal to the safe minimum standard rules of Ciriacy-Wantrup, updated to engage this question, successfully corrects some of the more egregious stumbling blocks to good faith dialogue in local discourse. The proposed constraints on the stake-holder convention can be quite directive, authoritative and bureaucratic, yet the constraints are necessary to preserve good faith conduct within the dialogue.
KW - Endangered Species Act
KW - Moral pragmatism
KW - Safe minimum standard
KW - Stake-holder
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0034869340&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S0921-8009(01)00153-7
DO - 10.1016/S0921-8009(01)00153-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034869340
VL - 38
SP - 209
EP - 226
JO - Ecological Economics
JF - Ecological Economics
SN - 0921-8009
IS - 2
ER -