Valuing nature? : ethics, economics and the environment / edited and with an introduction by John Foster.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index.

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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Environmental value and the scope of economics; THE ENVIRONMENTAL 'VALUATION' CONTROVERSY: OBSERVATIONS ON ITS RECENT HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE; VALUES AND PREFERENCES IN NEO-CLASSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND THE TRANSCENDENCE OF UTILITARIANISM; RATIONALITY AND SOCIAL NORMS; VALUE PLURALISM, INCOMMENSURABILITY AND INSTITUTIONS; PRICING THE COUNTRYSIDE: THE EXAMPLE OF TIR CYMEN; THE RELATIONS BETWEEN PRESERVATION VALUE AND EXISTENCE VALUE

SUBSTITUTABILITY: OR, WHY STRONG SUSTAINABILITY IS WEAK AND ABSURDLY STRONG SUSTAINABILITY IS NOT ABSURDMETHODOLOGY AND INSTITUTIONS: VALUE AS SEEN FROM THE RISK FIELD; EXISTENCE VALUE, MORAL COMMITMENTS AND IN-KIND VALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT WITHOUT ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION?; MULTI-CRITERIA MAPPING: MITIGATING THE PROBLEMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION?; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION, DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC DECISION-MAKING INSTITUTIONS; ENVIRONMENT AND CREATIVE VALUE; Bibliography; Index

Valuing Nature? questions the dominant economic methods of evaluating the environment. It asks what role economics should play in setting our environmental objectives.

English.

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