On Distributive Effects of Optimal Regulation for Power Grid Expansion

Herrera, Luis Ángel; Rosellón, Juan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2328181

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“…Pareto frontiers are particularly useful in environmental management for analyzing the nature of trade-offs between objectives, clarifying possible and impossible solutions, and evaluating efficiency of current or planned allocations against this frontier (Law et al 2017). Distributive efficiency aims to maximize social utility and is a focus of the sustainability and welfare literature (Andrews 2014;Herrera & Rosellón 2014).…”

Section: Pursuing Efficiency or Equitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Equity trade‐offs in conservation decision making

Law

Bennett

Ives

et al. 2017

Conservation Biology

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Conservation decisions increasingly involve multiple environmental and social objectives, which result in complex decision contexts with high potential for trade-offs. Improving social equity is one such objective that is often considered an enabler of successful outcomes and a virtuous ideal in itself. Despite its idealized importance in conservation policy, social equity is often highly simplified or ill-defined and is applied uncritically. What constitutes equitable outcomes and processes is highly normative and subject to ethical deliberation. Different ethical frameworks may lead to different conceptions of equity through alternative perspectives of what is good or right. This can lead to different and potentially conflicting equity objectives in practice. We promote a more transparent, nuanced, and pluralistic conceptualization of equity in conservation decision making that particularly recognizes where multidimensional equity objectives may conflict. To help identify and mitigate ethical conflicts and avoid cases of good intentions producing bad outcomes, we encourage a more analytical incorporation of equity into conservation decision making particularly during mechanistic integration of equity objectives. We recommend that in conservation planning motivations and objectives for equity be made explicit within the problem context, methods used to incorporate equity objectives be applied with respect to stated objectives, and, should objectives dictate, evaluation of equity outcomes and adaptation of strategies be employed during policy implementation.

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Section: Pursuing Efficiency or Equitymentioning

confidence: 99%