{"id":68372,"date":"2008-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deberes.net\/tesis\/sin-categoria\/environmental-governance-and-languages-of-valuation-two-european-case-studies\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"environmental-governance-and-languages-of-valuation-two-european-case-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deberes.net\/tesis\/geografia-humana\/environmental-governance-and-languages-of-valuation-two-european-case-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental governance and languages of valuation: two european case studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tesis doctoral de <strong> Christos Zografos <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The application of the homo economicus model of human action for analysing environmental policy has been consistently criticised for ignoring the multiplicity of environmental values and ethical bases that underlie human motivation, which may result in undesirable crowding out and voice silencing effects that generate ineffective and legitimacy-deficient environmental policies. This thesis considers policy implications of communicative rationality as an alternative model of human action capable to integrate multiple environmental languages of valuation in environmental governance. The thesis first examines conceptual and theoretical issues relating to the adoption of communicative rationality as an analytical model and then moves on to empirically explore implications of employing that model for analysing environmental governance by means of two case studies. The first employs q methodology to analyse #rurality# discourses underlying stakeholder perceptions regarding the role of a sustainability institution (social enterprise in rural scotland), while the second analyses the politics of landscape value that underlie environmental conflict in a case of wind farm siting conflict in rural catalonia. Communicative rationality is found useful for analysing and indeed improving environmental governance, albeit with limitations. Normatively speaking, the concept allows connecting with the paradigm of deliberative democracy that offers an elaborated framework for understanding and assessing legitimacy aspects of environmental governance, particularly in terms of social and environmental justice. Positively speaking, communicative action allows conceptualising environmental conflicts as governance challenges and not merely as cases of government policy failure, which proves useful for analysing emerging policy arrangements promoting participatory decision-making in the network society. A main limitation is that by conceptualising stakeholder action embedded on communicative rationality research may develop a soft spot by ignoring the practical context of power that surrounds environmental governance. It is suggested that ecological economics adopts the creation of public spheres for deliberation of sustainability matters as a distinct policy objective and the study of the deliberative potential of actual participatory decision-making arrangements. This will help improve their capacity to effect change and test the danger of them becoming legitimising mechanisms for policies that promote existing resource inequities and power relations. Such a research outlook could also advance the relatively undeveloped study of power in ecological economics by furthering links with political ecology.   el an\u00e1lisis de pol\u00edticas ambientales mediante el uso de homo economicus ha sido criticado por no tomar en cuenta la multiplicidad de valores ambientales y bases \u00e9ticas en las cuales se basa la motivaci\u00f3n humana. Esta limitaci\u00f3n es importante, dado que puede resultar en excluir algunas preferencias ambientales y as\u00ed generar pol\u00edticas ambientales inefectivas y de poca legitimidad. Esta tesis considera las implicaciones de la racionalidad comunicativa para formar y analizar pol\u00edticas ambientales, dado que esa pretende ser no solo un modelo alternativo a homo economicus sino tambi\u00e9n un modelo capaz de integrar m\u00faltiples lenguajes de valoraci\u00f3n en la governanza ambiental. La tesis primero examina temas conceptuales y te\u00f3ricos relacionados al uso de racionalidad comunicativa como modelo anal\u00edtico y luego considera de forma emp\u00edrica, implicaciones de usar este modelo para analizar la governanza ambiental por medio de dos estudios de caso. El primero, emplea la metodolog\u00eda q para analizar discursos de #ruralidad# que son la base de percepciones sobre el papel de empresas sociales operando en \u00e1reas rurales de escocia. El segundo, analiza la formaci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica de disputas sobe el valor paisaj\u00edstico que fomentan conflictos ambientales sobre parques e\u00f3licos en catalu\u00f1a rural. La tesis concluye que la racionalidad comunicativa es un concepto \u00fatil para analizar y mejorar la governanza ambiental, aunque con sus limitaciones. En t\u00e9rminos normativos, el concepto permite conectar con el paradigma de democracia deliberativa que ofrece un marco potente para entender y evaluar aspectos relacionados a la legitimidad de governanza ambiental, particularmente en t\u00e9rminos de justicia social y ambiental. Anal\u00edticamente, la acci\u00f3n comunicativa permite conceptualizar conflictos ambientales como retos de governanza y no meramente como fallos de politica ambiental, lo cual ayuda entender pol\u00edticas ambientales que promueven tomas de decisiones participativa en la emergente sociedad de redes. Una limitaci\u00f3n b\u00e1sica es que conceptualizando las acciones de agentes como acciones basadas en la racionalidad comunicativa, la investigaci\u00f3n cient\u00edfica puede acabar ignorando contextos de poder que rodean la governanza ambiental. La tesis sugiere que el campo de econom\u00eda ecol\u00f3gica adopte como un principio normativo la creaci\u00f3n de esferas p\u00fablicas de deliberaci\u00f3n sobre decisiones ambientales y que enfoque al estudio del potencial deliberativo de configuraciones actuales de toma de decisi\u00f3n participativa. Esto ayudar\u00eda mejorar su capacidad de efectuar cambio y comprobar\u00eda si dichos procesos se transformen en mecanismos de legitimaci\u00f3n de pol\u00edticas que promueven desigualdades en el uso y reparto de recursos ambientales y desigualdades de poder. Tal visi\u00f3n investigadora podr\u00eda tambi\u00e9n avanzar el estudio de poder que esta relativamente atrasado en econom\u00eda ecol\u00f3gica, por medio de mejorar v\u00ednculos entre esta disciplina y la ecolog\u00eda pol\u00edtica.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Datos acad\u00e9micos de la tesis doctoral \u00ab<strong>Environmental governance and languages of valuation: two european case studies<\/strong>\u00ab<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>T\u00edtulo de la tesis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Environmental governance and languages of valuation: two european case studies <\/li>\n<li><strong>Autor:<\/strong>\u00a0 Christos Zografos <\/li>\n<li><strong>Universidad:<\/strong>\u00a0 Aut\u00f3noma de barcelona<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fecha de lectura de la tesis:<\/strong>\u00a0 01\/12\/2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Direcci\u00f3n y tribunal<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Director de la tesis<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Joan Mart\u00c1\u00acnez Alier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tribunal<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Presidente del tribunal: gordon Walker <\/li>\n<li>tommaso Luzzati (vocal)<\/li>\n<li>  (vocal)<\/li>\n<li>  (vocal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesis doctoral de Christos Zografos The application of the homo economicus model of human action for analysing environmental policy has 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