Valuing Nature? (eBook, ePUB)

Economics, ethics and environment
Redaktion: Foster, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Valuing Nature?" questions the dominant economic methods of evaluating the environment. Innovatively, it 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. Contributors include Geoffrey Hodgson, Clive Spash, Micheal Jacobs, Brian Hynne, John O'Neil.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134751761
• Artikelnr.: 47887818

Autorenporträt

John Foster has worked in teaching, public sector management and green politics as well as academic research. He is a research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change, Lancaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Environmental value and the scope of economics Part I
Economics and environmental policy 1 THE ENVIRONMENTAL 'VALUATION'
CONTROVERSY:OBSERVATIONS ON ITS RECENT HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE 2 VALUES
AND PREFERENCES IN NEO-CLASSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS 3 ECONOMICS,
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND THE TRANSCENDENCE OF UTILITARIANISM Part II
Environmental value: limits of an economic model 4 RATIONALITY AND SOCIAL
NORMS 5 VALUE PLURALISM, INCOMMENSURABILITY AND INSTITUTIONS 6 PRICING THE
COUNTRYSIDE: THE EXAMPLE OF TIR CYMEN 7 THE RELATIONS BETWEEN PRESERVATION
VALUE AND EXISTENCE VALUE 8 SUBSTITUTABILITY: OR, WHY STRONG SUSTAINABILITY
IS WEAK AND ABSURDLY STRONG SUSTAINABILITY IS NOT ABSURD 9 METHODOLOGY AND
INSTITUTIONS: VALUE AS SEEN FROM THE RISK FIELD Part III Valuing nature:
new directions 10 EXISTENCE VALUE, MORAL COMMITMENTS AND IN-KIND VALUATION
11 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT WITHOUT ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION? 12
MULTI-CRITERIA MAPPING: MITIGATING THE PROBLEMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION?
13 ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION, DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC
DECISION-MAKING INSTITUTIONS 14 ENVIRONMENT AND CREATIVE VALUE