Allocating responsibility for environmental risks

Title

Allocating responsibility for environmental risks: A comparative analysis of examples from water governance

 Author

Doorn, N. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology) ORCID 0000-0002-1090-579X

 Date

2017

 Abstract

The focus of the present study is on the allocation of responsibilities for addressing environmental risks in transboundary water governance. Effective environmental management in transboundary situations requires coordinated and cooperative action among diverse individuals and organizations. Currently, little insight exists on how to foster collective action such that individuals and organizations take the responsibility to address transboundary environmental risks. On the basis of 4 cases of transboundary water governance, it will be shown how certain allocation principles are more likely to encourage cooperative action. The main lesson from these case studies is that the allocation of responsibilities should be seen as a risk distribution problem, including considerations of effectiveness, efficiency, and fairness.

 Subject

Collective action
Environmental fairness
Environmental risks
Transboundary
Water governance

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 DOI

https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.1799

 Embargo date

2017-07-18

 ISSN

1551-3793

 Source

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 13 (2), 371-375

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

journal article

 Rights

© 2017 N. Doorn
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