Environmental Heresies: The Quest for Reasonable

258 Pages·2016·5.043 MB·English

by  Juha Hiedanpää, Daniel W. Bromley (auth.)

Juha Hiedanpää & Daniel W. Bromley
E N V I R O N M E N T A L
H E R E S I E S
The Quest for Reasonable
Environmental Heresies
Juha   Hiedanpää • Daniel   W .   Bromley
Environmental
Heresies
The Quest for Reasonable
Juha Hiedanpää
Natural Resources Institute Finland
Finland
Daniel W. Bromley
University of Wisconsin-Madison
USA

ISBN 978-1-137-60082-0 ISBN 978-1-137-60083-7 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-60083-7
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To:
Johanna
and Auri, and Konsta—the next generation
Joyce
For the past, the present, and the future
Acknowledgments
J uha is grateful to the Academy of F inland for Award 253750. Daniel is
grateful to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of G ermany for the
Reimar Lüst Prize that supported some of the work reported here.
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Several of the chapters here are modifi ed
versions of the following papers
Chapter 4 : Bromley, Daniel W. 2012. Environmental Governance
as Stochastic Belief Updating: Crafting Rules to Live
By. E cology and Society , 17 (3): 14. [online] URL: http://
www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol17/iss3/art14/
Chapter 5 : Hiedanpää, Juha, and Daniel W. Bromley. 2013. Th e
Stakeholder Game: Pleadings and Reasons in Environmental
Philosophy. J ournal of Speculative Philosophy 27(4): 425–441.
Chapter 7 : Hiedanpää, Juha, and Daniel W. Bromley. 2014. Payments
for Ecosystem Services: Durable Habits, Dubious
Nudges, and Doubtful Effi cacy. Journal of Institutional
Economics 10(2): 175–195.
Chapter 8 : Hiedanpää, Juha, and Daniel W. Bromley. 2012.
Contestations over Biodiversity Policy: Considering Peircean
Semiosis. E nvironmental Values 21: 357–378.
Chapter 9 : Hiedanpää, Juha, and Daniel W. Bromley. 2011. Th e
Harmonization Game: Reasons and Rules in European
Biodiversity Policy. E nvironmental Policy and Governance 21:
99–111.
Chapter 11 : Bromley, Daniel W. 1999. Deforestation: Institutional Causes
and Solutions. In World Forests, Society and Environment, ed.
by Matti Palo and Jussi Uusivuori. Dordrecht, Th e
Netherlands: Kluwer.
Contents
1 Th e Consequences of Pragmatism 1
2 Th e Landscape Ahead 21
Part I Concepts and Concerns 33
3 Th e Nature of Nature 35
4 Environmental Governance 55
5 Stakeholders 73
Part II Practices and Problems 91
6 Th e Climate Problem 93
7 Paying for Ecosystem Services 115
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8 Th e Biodiversity Problem 141
9 Th e Problematic Wolf 163
10 Th e Ocean Fisheries Problem 189
11 Th e Deforestation Problem 215
12 Toward the Reasonable 229
Index 247
List of Figures
Fig. 6.1. Th e Science Mandate of the IPCC . 96
Fig. 8.1. A Peircean sign process 146
Fig. 8.2. Th e fi rst phase of the sign process 149
Fig. 8.3. Th e second phase of the sign process 149
Fig. 8.4. Th e third phase of the sign process 151
Fig. 8.5. Th e fourth phase of sign process 153
Fig. 8.6. Th e fi fth phase of the sign process 155
Fig. 8.7. Th e sixth phase of the sign process 156
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