In Pursuit of Democratic and Prudent Water Governance in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Público
Elizabeth Pierce (Fall 2017)
Abstract
For nearly thirty years, the states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia have disputed how the waters of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) river basin should be allocated. This dissertation evaluates whether one approach to resolving this conflict deserves further attention and political support. That approach—which reflects the institutional design prescriptions of Adaptive Governance (AG)—involves the creation of a transboundary river basin commission capable of adaptive management. This dissertation utilizes two procedural goals as evaluative standards of this approach: environmental prudence and democratic legitimacy. This dissertation assesses whether building a river basin commission that reflects AG design prescriptions could, on principle, enhance the environmental prudence and democratic legitimacy of ACF water allocation policies. To the degree that this approach meets those criteria, it deserves further political support in the ACF basin.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1……………………………………………………………………………….1
Justification of Research Question, 1
Conflicts Attending Interstate Water Allocation Policymaking, 20
Legal Mechanisms for Developing Interstate Water Allocation Policies, 36
Chapter 2………………………………………………………………………………..47
Introduction, 47
Prudence and Environmental Prudence, 48
Resilience Theory, 59
Adaptive Management and Environmental Prudence, 68
Adaptive Governance, 82
Adaptive Governance and Environmental Prudence, 88
Chapter 3………………………………………………………………………………..89
Introduction, 89
Political Legitimacy and Democratic Legitimacy, 91
Liberal Political Philosophy, 96
Communitarian Political Philosophy, 122
Conclusion, 142
Chapter 4………………………………………………………………………………151
Introduction, 151
Discourse Ethics, 153
Deliberative Democracy, 167
The Appropriateness of Deliberative Democracy as an Evaluative Standard of AG, 187
Conclusion, 191
Chapter 5………………………………………………………………………………192
Introduction, 192
Evaluating the Democratic Legitimacy of Adaptive Governance, 193
New Questions and Next Steps, 213
Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………..217
Figures
Figure 1-1…………………………………………………………………………………3
Figure 2-1………………………………………………………………………………..60
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