The Earthscan Reader in Environmental Values

ISBN-13: 9781844071661 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 368 str.

Opis

This comprehensive reader offers in-depth analyses of critical developments in environmental values, bringing together in one volume the most influential scholarship in the field.

Spis treści

Environmental Values: An Introduction * Part I: Economic Themes in Environmental Values * Contingent Valuation: A User's Guide * Economic and Ecological Concepts for Valuing Ecosystem Services * The Development of Environmental Thinking in Economics * Part II: Philosophical and Ethical Themes in Environmental Values * Non-Anthropocentric Value Theory and Environmental Ethics * Environmental Ethics and Weak Anthropocentrism * A Defence of the Deep Ecology Movement * Radical American Environmentalism and 'Wilderness' Preservation: A Third World Critique * Class, Race and Gender Discourse in the Ecofeminism/Deep Ecology Debate * The Biological Basis for Human Values of Nature * Part III: Anthropological and Sociological Themes in Environmental Values * Christianity, Environmentalism and the Theoretical Problem of Fundamentalism * Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale * Value Orientations, Gender and Environmental Concern * Environmental Values: A Place-Based Theory * Part IV: Judgement and Decision Making Themes in Environmental Values * Valuing Public Goods: The Purchase of Moral Satisfaction * Protected Values * Aggregation and Deliberation in Valuing Public Goods: A Look Beyond Contingent Pricing * Valuing Environmental Resources: A Constructive Approach * What Should We Do? Human Ecology and Collective Decision Making *