Valuing Nature?: Economics, Ethics and Environment

✍ Scribed by John Foster

• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 286
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume questions the dominant economic methods of evaluating the environment and asks what role economics should play in setting our environmental objectives. Topics include: a critique of neo-classical economic thought on the environment; environmental economics, institutions and policy; and relocating environmental economics.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction: Environmental value and the scope of economics......Page 14
THE ENVIRONMENTAL 'VALUATION' CONTROVERSY: OBSERVATIONS ON ITS RECENT HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE......Page 34
VALUES AND PREFERENCES IN NEO-CLASSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS......Page 45
ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND THE TRANSCENDENCE OF UTILITARIANISM......Page 61
RATIONALITY AND SOCIAL NORMS......Page 80
VALUE PLURALISM, INCOMMENSURABILITY AND INSTITUTIONS......Page 88
PRICING THE COUNTRYSIDE: THE EXAMPLE OF TIR CYMEN......Page 102
THE RELATIONS BETWEEN PRESERVATION VALUE AND EXISTENCE VALUE......Page 116
SUBSTITUTABILITY: OR, WHY STRONG SUSTAINABILITY IS WEAK AND ABSURDLY STRONG SUSTAINABILITY IS NOT ABSURD......Page 132
METHODOLOGY AND INSTITUTIONS: VALUE AS SEEN FROM THE RISK FIELD......Page 148
EXISTENCE VALUE, MORAL COMMITMENTS AND IN-KIND VALUATION......Page 168
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT WITHOUT ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION?......Page 183
MULTI-CRITERIA MAPPING: MITIGATING THE PROBLEMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION?......Page 199
ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION, DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC DECISION-MAKING INSTITUTIONS......Page 224
ENVIRONMENT AND CREATIVE VALUE......Page 245
Bibliography......Page 260
Index......Page 278