When is green nudging ethically permissible?
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T1 - When is green nudging ethically permissible?
AU - Tyler DesRoches, C.
AU - Fischer, Daniel
AU - Silver, Julia
AU - Arthur, Philip
AU - Livernois, Rebecca
AU - Crichlow, Timara
AU - Hersch, Gil
AU - Nagatsu, Michiru
AU - Abbott, Joshua K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2023/2/1
Y1 - 2023/2/1
N2 - This review article provides a new perspective on the ethics of green nudging. We advance a new model for assessing the ethical permissibility of green nudges (GNs). On this model, which provides normative guidance for policymakers, a GN is ethically permissible when the intervention is (1) efficacious, (2) cost-effective, and (3) the advantages of the GN (i.e. reducing the environmental harm) are not outweighed by countervailing costs/harms (i.e. for nudgees). While traditional ethical objections to nudges (paternalism, etc.) remain potential normative costs associated with GNs, any such costs must be weighed against the injunction to reduce environmental harm to third parties.
AB - This review article provides a new perspective on the ethics of green nudging. We advance a new model for assessing the ethical permissibility of green nudges (GNs). On this model, which provides normative guidance for policymakers, a GN is ethically permissible when the intervention is (1) efficacious, (2) cost-effective, and (3) the advantages of the GN (i.e. reducing the environmental harm) are not outweighed by countervailing costs/harms (i.e. for nudgees). While traditional ethical objections to nudges (paternalism, etc.) remain potential normative costs associated with GNs, any such costs must be weighed against the injunction to reduce environmental harm to third parties.
KW - Behavioral Economics
KW - Ethics
KW - Green Nudge
KW - Nudge
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85144417837&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/254605ee-56db-3f68-af3d-e6c546c44c3c/
U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101236
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101236
M3 - Scientific review articles
AN - SCOPUS:85144417837
VL - 60
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
SN - 1877-3435
M1 - 101236
ER -