Environmental economic, political and ethical integration in a common decision-making framework

Understanding farmers' strategic decision-making processes and the implications for biodiversity conservation policy

“…They justified business decisions in terms of technologies and money and decisions about their family issues in terms of fairness, protection, support and agreement. Martínez de Anguita et al (2008) developed a large-scale hierarchical decision framework for environmental management that goes some way to illustrate this. When reduced to the farming family scale (where 'solidarity' means 'agreement of family members') their model fits our findings but provides a more complete hierarchy of problems/ solutions than we got from our interviews.…”

“…However, the 'ethical justification' boundary, that is the ethical systems of belief they might use in justifying decisions (Spash, 1997;Martínez de Anguita et al, 2008), requires more consideration. It was not practical to conduct more interviews in order to develop ethics systems of belief so we deferred to the literature on ethics.…”

Incentives for subcontractors to adopt CO 2 emission reporting and reduction techniques

“…To answer the main question, semistructured phone interviews were carried out with TNT's subcontractors in the Netherlands and the UK. As such, the paper serves as an illustration of the decision-making framework developed by Martinez de Anguita et al (2008). This framework integrates technical, economic, political, legal and ethical decision levels.…”

Is sustainable development a motor or a constraint for the professionalization of the pearl oyster industry in Tahiti?

“…Finally, concerning the benefit of our approach, let us underline the fact that the discussion created by the selection of sustainable development cards was itself a first step in favour of the understanding and acquisition of the notion of sustainability (Fraser et al, 2006), the latter not being deeply rooted in Polynesian culture which tends to favour the short term. Martinez de Anguita et al, (2008) emphasize the fact that the framework for individual decision-making involves values that are larger than those highlighted by sustainability and that its acceptance can only proceed from larger philosophical systems used to guide people's lives, most notably in their relationship to the environment and to the land. It is in this sense that providing support and heightening awareness constitute public policies that are increasingly important and decisive for the acquisition of the innovations implied by sustainable management of the sector (Laurans et al, 2013).…”