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100	1	0	_aMeinard, Yves _eauthor
700	1	0	_a Rouchier, Juliette _eauthor
245	0	0	_aThe elusiveness of ‘economic arguments’ in environmental policy decision aiding
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520			_aIn this paper, we investigate various so-called ‘decision aiding’ practices based on ‘economic arguments’ used to design and implement environmental public policies. We analyse these practices to determine whether they truly provide an aid to decision-making. We tackle this issue using a case-based inquiry applied to the ‘red muds’ of Gardanne. This case exemplifies practices, which claim to take advantage of economic science, but are in fact based on fallacious rationales incapable of meeting even minimal rigorousness and scientificity requirements. We do not claim to produce quantitative evidence that our observations are generalizable. Rather, we claim that our empirical elements can be used to articulate ideas whose generality should be investigated in future quantitative studies: (i) decision aiding, when applied to environmental public policies, is barely, if at all, based on economic science; (ii) it is nevertheless overrun with economic vocabulary, which suggests that (iii) the legitimacy of environmental public policies can be undermined by decision aiding practices which, for lack of a robust anchorage in economic science, weaken the possible justification of these policies.
690			_agovernance
690			_aeconomics
690			_aarguments
690			_aenvironment
690			_adecision-aid
786	0		_nNatures Sciences Sociétés | 27 | 4 | 2020-04-15 | p. 399-409 | 1240-1307
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-natures-sciences-societes-2019-4-page-399?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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