Environmental Damage as Negative Externality: Uncertainty, Moral Complexity and the Limits of the Market
The economic concept of negative externalities is the dominant frame in environmental policies. Revisiting environmental damage with a sociological approach, I show how the process of externalities definition and internalisation is a political process in which a public is constituted and common prob...
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| description | The economic concept of negative externalities is the dominant frame in environmental policies. Revisiting environmental damage with a sociological approach, I show how the process of externalities definition and internalisation is a political process in which a public is constituted and common problems are collectively defined and addressed. In particular, I highlight the presence in this process of two kinds of uncertainty which have to be dealt with: epistemic uncertainty and moral uncertainty. Keeping these two forms of uncertainty analytically separated is useful in order to understand the limits of the market as a way to internalize environmental externalities and to analyse in their specificities the different types of translation, mediation and composition which are needed in order to create the conditions for a truly inclusive and democratic public deliberation on environmental damage and its reparation. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1955d5ed96854f5db40aedab9c2e819d2024-12-09T14:12:20ZengCentro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbrae-cadernos ces1647-07372009-09-01510.4000/eces.266Environmental Damage as Negative Externality: Uncertainty, Moral Complexity and the Limits of the MarketLaura CentemeriThe economic concept of negative externalities is the dominant frame in environmental policies. Revisiting environmental damage with a sociological approach, I show how the process of externalities definition and internalisation is a political process in which a public is constituted and common problems are collectively defined and addressed. In particular, I highlight the presence in this process of two kinds of uncertainty which have to be dealt with: epistemic uncertainty and moral uncertainty. Keeping these two forms of uncertainty analytically separated is useful in order to understand the limits of the market as a way to internalize environmental externalities and to analyse in their specificities the different types of translation, mediation and composition which are needed in order to create the conditions for a truly inclusive and democratic public deliberation on environmental damage and its reparation.https://journals.openedition.org/eces/266externalitiesuncertaintyMichel CallonWilliam K. KappLaurent Thévenot |
| spellingShingle | Laura Centemeri Environmental Damage as Negative Externality: Uncertainty, Moral Complexity and the Limits of the Market e-cadernos ces externalities uncertainty Michel Callon William K. Kapp Laurent Thévenot |
| title | Environmental Damage as Negative Externality: Uncertainty, Moral Complexity and the Limits of the Market |
| title_full | Environmental Damage as Negative Externality: Uncertainty, Moral Complexity and the Limits of the Market |
| title_fullStr | Environmental Damage as Negative Externality: Uncertainty, Moral Complexity and the Limits of the Market |
| title_full_unstemmed | Environmental Damage as Negative Externality: Uncertainty, Moral Complexity and the Limits of the Market |
| title_short | Environmental Damage as Negative Externality: Uncertainty, Moral Complexity and the Limits of the Market |
| title_sort | environmental damage as negative externality uncertainty moral complexity and the limits of the market |
| topic | externalities uncertainty Michel Callon William K. Kapp Laurent Thévenot |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/eces/266 |
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