Valuing Nature?: Economics, Ethics and Environment

ISBN-13: 9780415148757 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 288 str.

John Foster

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.