PSCI 3201 Environmental Policy 10407

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PSCI 3201 Environmental Policy10/4/07

• Ethics in contemporary environmental policy
  debate
• Water resources
• Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
• B. Policy solutions from ethics

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Cadillac Desert An American NilePBS film based
on a book by Marc Reisner

• What were the underlying ethical arguments
  informing the development of water resources in
  the West?
• Who were the winners and losers with regard to
  various water resource policy decisions?

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• A Continuum of Ethical Positions Regarding the
  Environment
• Ethical Position Belief
  
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• Utilitarian Nature and resources are
• there to be used
• Conservationist Wise use you use resources,
• but you use them according to
• rules
• Preservationist Protect wilderness in an
• untouched state
• Deep Ecologist Embrace a nonanthropocentric
• approach to protection of
• all species

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Debating theArctic National Wildlife
Refuge(ANWR)
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Development of the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge (ANWR)

• 1960 Arctic National Wildlife Range established
• 1980 Wildlife refuge status attained
• House favored wilderness designation, precluding
  any development
• Senate compromise Section 1002 prohibits
  leasing, development, and production of oil and
  gas in the refuge unless authorized by Congress
• Any change in ANWR status requires U.S.
  Congressional action

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ANWRRecent Legislative Efforts

• Wilderness legislation hands off ANWR
• Energy legislation open a section of ANWR to
  exploration and development
• Annual budget resolution assumption of revenues
  from oil