Cautious utopias: Environmental Goal-setting with Long Time Frames

Ethics, Policy and Environment

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 187-201

  Baard, Patrik ^a   Björnberg, Karin Edvardsson ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC SECTOR; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84938427229     PISSN: 21550085     EISSN: 21550093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2015.1070487     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. J.Aldred,, & M.Jacobs, (2000). Citizens and wetlands: Evaluating the Ely citizens’ jury. Ecological Economics, 34, 217–232. doi:10.1016/S0921-8009(00)00159-2.
2. J.Burgess,, M.Limb,, & C.Harrison, (1988). Exploring environmental values through the medium of small groups: 1. Theory and practice. Environment and Planning A, 20, 309–326. doi:10.1068/a200309.
3. P.Dahler-Larsen, (2006). Evaluation after disenchantment? Five issues shaping the role of evaluation in society. In I.Shaw, J.Greene, & M.Mark (Eds.), The Sage handbook of evaluation (pp. 141–160). London: Sage.
4. M.de Geus, (2009). Utopian sustainability: Ecological utopianism. Advances in Ecopolitics, 4, 77–100.
5. S.Dessai,, M.Hulme,, R.Lempert,, & R.Pielke, Jr, (2009). Climate prediction: A limit to adaptation? In N.Adger, I.Lorenzoni, & K.O'Brien (Eds.), Adapting to climate change: Thresholds, values, governance (pp. 64–78). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. J.Dewey, (2002). Human nature and conduct. New York: Dover. Originally published in 1922.
7. K.Edvardsson Björnberg,, & S.O.Hansson, (2011). Five areas of value judgment in local adaptation to climate change. Local Government Studies, 37, 671–687.
8. K.Edvardsson,, & S.O.Hansson, (2005). When is a goal rational? Social Choice and Welfare, 24, 343–361. doi:10.1007/s00355-003-0309-8.
9. P.Eliasson,, & S.G.Nilsson, (2002). ‘You should hate young oaks and young noblemen’: The environmental history of oaks in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Sweden. Environmental History, 7, 659–674. doi:10.2307/3986061.
10. J.Elster, (2010). Bad timing. In C.Andreou & M.D.White (Eds.), The thief of time (pp. 87–96). New York: Oxford University Press.
11. S.Gardiner, (2011). A perfect moral storm: The ethical tragedy of climate change. New York: Oxford University Press.
12. M.A.Hajer,, & H.Wagenaar, (2003). Deliberative policy analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
13. S.O.Hansson, (1996). Decision making under great uncertainty. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 26, 369–386. 10.1177/004839319602600304.
14. S.O.Hansson, (2007). Social decisions about risk and risk-taking. Social Choice & Welfare, 29, 649–663. doi:10.1007/s00355-007-0249-9.
15. A.Harmes, (2001). Mass investment culture. New Left Review, 9, 103–124.
16. J.Hedrén,, & B.O.Linnér, (2009). Utopian thought and the politics of sustainable development. Futures, 41, 210–219.
17. M.Hulme,, & S.Dessai, (2008). Ventures should not overstate their aims just to secure funding. Nature, 453, 979–979. doi:10.1038/453979a.
18. D.Jamieson, (1996). Ethics and intentional climate change. Climatic Change, 33, 323–336. doi:10.1007/BF00142580.
19. J.Lind, (2010). Quercus: The Oak and diversity. Stockholm: Atlantis.
20. L.O.Mearns, (2010). The drama of uncertainty. Climatic Change, 100, 77–85. doi:10.1007/s10584-010-9841-6.
21. B.Norton, (2005). Sustainability: A philosophy of adaptive ecosystem management. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
22. M.Nussbaum, (2006). Frontiers of justice. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
23. K.Popper, ([1945]1995). The open society and its enemies: Vol. 1. London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
24. K.Popper, ([1957]2002). The poverty of historicism. London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
25. Prop. 1997/98:145, Svenska miljömål. Miljöpolitik för ett hållbart Sverige [Swedish Environmental Quality Objectives: An Environmental Policy for a Sustainable Sweden].
26. Prop. 2000/01:130, Svenska miljömål – delmål och åtgärdsstrategier [Swedish Environmental Quality Objectives: Interim Targets and Strategies].
27. Prop. 2004/05:150, Svenska miljömål – ett gemensamt uppdrag [Swedish Environmental Quality Objectives: A Common Mission].
28. Prop. 2009/10:155, Svenska miljömål – för ett effektivare miljöarbete [Swedish Environmental Quality Objectives: For More Efficient Environmental Policies].
29. J.Rockström,, W.Steffen,, K.Noone,, Å.Persson,, I.I.I.F.Stuart Chapin,, E.F.Lambin,, T.M.Lenton,, M.Scheffer,, C.Folke,, H.J.Schnellhuber,, B.Nykvist,, C.A.de Wit,, T.Hughes,, S.van der Leeuw,, H.Rodhe,, S.Sörlin,, P.K.Snyder,, R.Costanza,, U.Svedin,, M.Falkenmark,, L.Karlberg,, R.W.Corell,, V.C.Fabry,, J.Hansen,, B.Walker,, D.Liverman,, K.Richardson,, P.Crutzen,, & J.A.Foley, (2009). A safe operating space for humanity. Nature, 461, 472–475.
30. J.Shukla,, R.Hagedorn,, B.Hoskins,, J.Kinter,, J.Marotzke,, M.Miller,, T.N.Palmer,, & J.Slingo, (2009). Revolution in climate prediction is both necessary and possible. A declaration at the world modelling summit for climate prediction. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90, 175–178. doi:10.1175/2008BAMS2759.1.
31. H.Stewart, (1995). A critique of instrumental reason in economics. Economics and Philosophy, 11, 57–83. doi:10.1017/S0266267100003229.
32. Swedish Environmental Objectives Council. (2003). Sweden's environmental objectives – will the interim targets be achieved?. Available at http://miljomal.nu/Global/24_las_mer/rapporter/miljomalsradet/de_facto/deFacto2003E.pdf (accessed 9 July 2013).
33. T.A.Tilton, (1984). Utopia, incrementalism, and Ernst Wigforss' conception of a provisional utopia. Scandinavian Studies, 56, 36–54.
34. S.Van Thiel,, & F.L.Leeuw, (2002). The performance paradox in the public sector. Public Performance & Management Review, 25, 267–281. doi:10.2307/3381236.
35. J.L.Warren, (2011). Urgent: Dreams. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 1, 256–261. doi:10.1007/s13412-011-0039-7.
36. World Commission on Environment and Development. (1987). Our common future. New York: Oxford University Press.
37. E.O.Wright, (2010). Envisioning real utopias. London: Verso Books.