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      Biofuels and the ethics of global governance
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      Biofuels and the ethics of global governance

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      Biofuels and the ethics of global governance book

      Experimentalism, disagreement, politics

      Biofuels and the ethics of global governance

      DOI link for Biofuels and the ethics of global governance

      Biofuels and the ethics of global governance book

      Experimentalism, disagreement, politics
      ByJames Brassett, Ben Richardson, William Smith
      BookRoutledge Handbook of Ethics and International Relations

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 18
      eBook ISBN 9781315725932
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      ABSTRACT

      This chapter identifies important limits relating to the difficulties of reconciling moral disagreement at a global level. It presents a case study of one important policy area in the field of environmental ethics, namely: the regulation of biofuels. The chapter considers experimentalism as an ethical approach to global governance. Experimentalist governance is typified by a concern with deliberative polyarchy, stakeholder inclusion, and democratic destabilisation. The chapter explores surveys the emergence of European Union (EU) standards of biofuels regulation. Biofuels are an interesting test case of experimentalism because the architecture of regulation emerged in precisely the unpredictable, 'experimental' fashion that might tend towards pluralist learning. The chapter reviews the critical potential of experimentalism to both expose democratic fragilities in global governance and provide pragmatic reflections on new directions in this area. Ethical attachments to a goal of sustainability have combined with the expansion of global governance to legitimate wider processes of market-making.

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