IIA Valuation and Collaboration: The Uses of Economic Research in Negotiated and Participatory Decision Making

IIA 估值与合作：经济研究在谈判和参与决策中的应用

• 批准号: 9975770
• 负责人: Mark Sagoff
• 金额: $ 6.47万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-01-01 至 2002-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9975770&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IIA; Valuation; Collaboration; Uses; Economic

The project will analyze the interplay between economic studies, such as cost-benefit analyses, and participatory, discursive, and deliberative processes, such as stakeholder negotiations, in environmental decision making. A great deal of research during the past two decades has sought to improve the techniques of economic valuation and value solicitation; a smaller though significant body of research addresses participatory approaches to environmental problem solving. This project will identify and classify ways in which economic analyses of different kinds have proven useful in negotiated environmental rulemaking and in other deliberative and collaborative efforts to solve environmental problems. On the basis of historical, conceptual, and normative research, this project will recommend approaches to economic valuation intended to increase its relevance for participatory and deliberative efforts to resolve environmental disputes. The project employs, first, a conceptually informed historical and inductive method to develop and review case studies of environmental negotiations in which cost-benefit and other economic analyses play an important role. The proposal describes two examples: 1) negotiations under way to establish a system of tradable grazing rights to forage on public lands; and 2) the negotiated regulation requiring strict emission controls at the Navajo Generating Station in Arizona. The project employs, second, the methods of normative and conceptual analysis to examine within the context of democratic political theory the relation between current efforts to "reinvent regulation" through more participatory, decentralized decision-making structures and efforts to "reform regulation" through the use of more and better scientific, technical, and economic analysis. The research proposed here seeks to show how regulatory decisions could draw legitimacy from both approaches if they were better aligned with each other. This project thus intends to respond in part to the perennial problem of the legitimacy of environmental regulation (as distinct from common-law protections) in view of the delegation (or overdelegation) of legislative authority to administrative agencies since the New Deal.

该项目将分析经济研究之间的相互作用，例如成本效益分析，以及在环境决策中的参与性，话语和审议过程，例如利益相关者谈判。在过去的二十年中，大量的研究试图提高经济估值和价值招标的技术；一项较小但重要的研究涉及解决环境问题解决的参与式方法。该项目将确定并分类方式，在这些方法中，对不同种类的经济分析被证明可用于谈判的环境规则制定以及解决环境问题的其他审议和协作努力。在历史，概念和规范研究的基础上，该项目将建议进行经济估值的方法，以提高其与参与性和审议的相关性，以解决环境纠纷。首先，该项目采用了一种概念知情的历史和归纳方法来开发和审查对环境谈判的案例研究，其中成本效益和其他经济分析起着重要作用。该提案描述了两个例子：1）正在进行谈判，以建立在公共土地上提供可贸易放牧权的饲料权的制度； 2）在亚利桑那州的纳瓦霍生成站进行严格的排放控制的协商法规。其次，该项目采用规范性和概念分析的方法来检查民主政治理论的背景下，目前通过更具参与性的，分散的决策结构和通过使用越来越更好的科学，技术，技术和经济分析来“改革监管”来“重新发明监管”的努力之间的关系。这里提出的研究旨在展示法规决策如何从两种方法彼此之间更好地保持一致的合法性。因此，该项目打算在一定程度上应对环境监管合法性（与普通法保护的合法性）的多年生问题，鉴于自新交易以来，立法机构对行政机构的代表团（或过度授权）。