Espen Dyrnes Stabell

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL)
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    Precaution and Fairness: A Framework for Distributing Costs of Protection from Environmental Risks
    Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 31 (1): 55-71. 2018.
    While there is an extensive literature on how the precautionary principle should be interpreted and when precautions should be taken, relatively little discussion exists about the fair distribution of costs of taking precautions. We address this issue by proposing a general framework for deciding how costs of precautions should be shared, which consists of a series of default principles that are triggered according to desert, rights, and ability to pay. The framework is developed with close atte…Read more
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    Existence value refers to the value humans ascribe to the existence of something, regard­less of whether it is or will be of any particular use to them. This existence value based on preference satisfaction should be taken into account in evaluating activities that come with a risk of species extinction. There are two main objections. The first is that on the preference satisfaction interpretation, the concept lacks moral importance because satisfying people’s preferences may involve no good or …Read more
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    In decision-making based on multiple criteria, situations may arise where agents find their options to be neither better than, worse than nor equal to each other with respect to the relevant criteria. How, if at all, can a justified choice be made between such options? Are the options incomparable? This article explores a hypothetical case that illustrates how such a situation can arise in an environmental context; more specifically, it considers the deliberations of an imagined 'ethics committe…Read more
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    Arguments from Need in Natural Resource Debates
    Ethics, Policy and Environment 26 (1): 19-33. 2023.
    With regard to any natural resource, we can ask whether we should obtain (more of) it. For instance, we may ask whether we, as a society, should seek to obtain more minerals, or more oil. Furthermo...
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    Why Environmental Philosophers Should Be "Buck-Passers" about Value
    Environmental Ethics 43 (4): 339-354. 2021.
    The value of nature has been extensively debated in environmental ethics. There has been less discussion, however, about how one should understand the relation between this value and normativity, or reasons: if something in nature is seen as valuable, how should we understand the relation between this fact and claims about reasons to, for example, protect it or promote its existence? The “commonsense” view is that value gives rise to reasons. The buck-passing account of value, on the other hand,…Read more
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    Eric Katz on ”De-Extinction”: Ontology, Value and Normativity
    with Ronald Sandler, Ryan Baylon, Cora Lundgren, Philine Weisbeek, Benjamin Yelle, and Markus Zaba
    Ethics, Policy and Environment 25 (2): 104-108. 2022.
    Eric Katz (1992) influentially argued that ecological restoration involves the ‘big lie’ that a successful restoration re-establishes or re-creates all of what was lost through human degradation, a...
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    Fostering hope and resilience amidst intractable ethical dilemmas brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic
    with Allen Alvarez, Gitte Koksvik, and May Thorseth
    Etikk I Praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics 2 1-4. 2021.
    This special issue of Etikk i Praksis – Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics features four articles that address a number of urgent ethical issues that arise in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    Emergency, Values and Evidence
    Etikk I Praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics 1 1-6. 2020.
    This open issue of the Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics consists of four papers that discuss the topics covering vaccination, sustainability, development ethics research and family ethics. It also includes a book review.
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    Økoargumentet for sivil ulydighet – en kritikk
    Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 58 (1): 70-75. 2023.
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    Introduction
    Etikk I Praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics 2 1-4. 2014.
    _Taking issue with sustainable governance involves careful consideration of social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainability, and the interplay of those dimensions in political processes and decision-making. The current issue of Etikk i Praksis contributes to this task by offering analysis of central concepts in the discourse of sustainability, as well as examinations of political and moral issues raised by pressing environmental challenges such as climate change._