Testing moral choices in economic analysis models for climate policy to positive law

Samenvatting

One of the most important choices policy makers are facing today, is the choice between different policy alternatives for the handling of climate change. In particular, the question is how to handle risks to future generations. To make this choice, policy makers often turn to economic analysis models, such as cost-benefit analysis. However, the models result in recommendations ranging from radical changes in present production and consumption patterns to no action at all. Therefore, policy makers often conclude that economic analysis models are presently of little value for policy making. Erroneously, policy makers generally assume that the wide range of policy recommendations is the result of controversy over the effects of climate change (risk assessment). However, the cause can rather be found in the various ethical points of view that economists take - consciously or unconsciously - in their analysis models. In this research, it is investigated whether these ethical points of view conflict with our shared moral frameworks when it comes to the handling of risks to contemporary people, such as expressed e.g. in positive law. It is investigated whether relating the economic analysis models to positive law could narrow the range of recommendations for climate policy."

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Wetenschappelijk artikel

• md davidson(2004): Discontovoet voor klimaatschade behoeft politieke keuzeEconomisch Statistische Berichten pp. 290-293
• md davidson(2006): A social discount rate for climate damage to future generations based on regulatory lawclimatic change pp. 55-72
• M.D. Davidson(2007): Parallels in reactionary argumentation in the US congressional debates on the abolition of slavery and the Kyoto ProtocolClimatic Change pp. 67-82
• M.D. Davidson(2008): Parallels in reactionary argumentation in the US congressional debates on the abolition of slavery and the Kyoto ProtocolClimatic Change pp. 67-82
• md davidson(2008): Wrongful harm to future generations: The Case of Climate ChangeEnvironmental Values pp. 471-488
• MD Davidson(2010): Het Kyoto-protocol en de afschaffing van de slavernijFilosofie & Praktijk pp. 7-21ISSN: 01672444.
• MD Davidson(2012): Intergenerational Justice: How Reasonable Man Discounts Climate DamageSustainability pp. 106-122ISSN: 2071-1050.

Hoofdstuk in boek

• md davidson, l asveld (Ed.), s roeser (Ed.)(2008): The Ethics of Technological Risk pp. 44-70 , londen

Professionele publicatie

• M.D. Davidson(2011): Verlaging maatschappelijke discontovoetEconomische instrumenten voor biodiversiteit: Een uitwerking van TEEB-aanbevelingen ten behoeve van de Taskforce Biodiversiteit en Natuurlijke Hulpbronnen pp. 13-22

Proefschrift

• M.D. Davidson(2008): Arguing about climate change. Judging the handling of climate risk to future geberations by comparison to the general standarts of conduct in the case of risk to contemoraries
• M.D. Davidson(2008): Arguing about climate change , Amsterdam  15 januari 2009
• md davidson(2009): Arguing about climate change , amsterdam  15 januari 2009