Comparing Distributions of Environmental Outcomes for Regulatory Environmental Justice Analysis

Maguire, Kelly; Sheriff, Glenn

doi:10.3390/ijerph8051707

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“…). The most commonly used metric of equity is the Gini coefficient (Maguire & Sheriff ; Halpern et al. ), a measure of equality (i.e., how evenly a resource is distributed among stakeholders) (Bellù & Liberati ; Maguire & Sheriff ).…”

Section: Matching Motivations With Methods In Conservation Practicementioning

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“…Halpern et al 2013). The most commonly used metric of equity is the Gini coefficient (Maguire & Sheriff 2011;Halpern et al 2013), a measure of equality (i.e., how evenly a resource is distributed among stakeholders) (Bellù & Liberati 2006;Maguire & Sheriff 2011). Other metrics include the Thiel index (a weighted average of inequality within subgroups plus inequality among subgroups) and the 20:20 ratio (income from the top 20% of the population vs. the bottom 20%).…”

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Equity trade‐offs in conservation decision making

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Bennett

Ives

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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: Matching Motivations With Methods In Conservation Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Critically Assessing Equality Metrics For Measuring Equitymentioning

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Equity trade‐offs in conservation decision making

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Bennett

Ives

et al. 2017

Conservation Biology

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“…(Maguire and Sheriff, 2011). Shorrocks (1983a) proved that, by multiplying the original Lorenz curve by its mean, some of those intersections could be solved, thus removing its ambiguity; this is the well-known Generalized Lorenz Curve (GLC) 9 .…”

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“…Additionally, as consequence of this literature proliferation, a burgeoning methodology discussion is growing around the adaptation of well-known income inequality tools to environmental issues (Maguire and Sheriff, 2011;Duro, 2012a). This paper's aim is thus twofold: firstly, we summarize and order the empirical application of inequality approaches to ecological economics.…”

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Ecological Footprint Inequality: A Methodological Review and Some Results

Teixidó-Figueras

Duro

2012

SSRN Journal

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Scarcities of environmental services are no longer merely a remote hypothesis. Consequently, analysis of their inequalities between nations becomes of paramount importance for the achievement of sustainability in terms either of international policy, or of Universalist ethical principles of equity. This paper aims, on the one hand, at revising methodological aspects of the inequality measurement of certain environmental data and, on the other, at extending the scarce empirical evidence relating to the international distribution of Ecological Footprint (EF), by using a longer EF time series. Most of the techniques currently important in the literature are revised and then tested on EF data with interesting results. We look in depth at Lorenz dominance analyses and consider the underlying properties of different inequality indices. Those indices which fit best with environmental inequality measurements are CV 2 and GE(2) because of their neutrality property, however a trade-off may occur when subgroup decompositions are performed. A weighting factor decomposition method is proposed in order to isolate weighting factor changes in inequality growth rates. Finally, the only non-ambiguous way of decomposing inequality by source is the natural decomposition of CV 2 , which additionally allows the interpretation of marginal term contributions. Empirically, this paper contributes to the environmental inequality measurement of EF: this inequality has been quite stable and its change over time is due to per capita vector changes rather than population changes. Almost the entirety of the EF inequality is explainable by differences in the means between the countries of the World Bank group. This finding suggests that international environmental agreements should be attempted on a regional basis in an attempt to achieve greater consensus between the parties involved. Additionally, source decomposition warns of the dangers of confining CO 2 emissions reduction to crop-based energies because of the implications for basic needs satisfaction.

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“…Calculating the standard error of the estimated concentration index is complex, but it is straightforward 25 Concentration curves are closely related to Lorenz curves, but rank population on the horizontal axis by income (or other socio-economic variable) rather than by exposure to the variable on the vertical axis. For details see Maguire and Sheriff (2011).…”

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The Private Net Benefits of Residential Solar PV: The Role of Electricity Tariffs, Tax Incentives and Rebates

Borenstein¹

2015

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Comparing Distributions of Environmental Outcomes for Regulatory Environmental Justice Analysis

Cited by 50 publications

References 52 publications

Equity trade‐offs in conservation decision making

Equity trade‐offs in conservation decision making

Ecological Footprint Inequality: A Methodological Review and Some Results

The Private Net Benefits of Residential Solar PV: The Role of Electricity Tariffs, Tax Incentives and Rebates

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