Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index.
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
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Valuing Nature? questions the dominant economic methods of evaluating the environment. It asks what role economics should play in setting our environmental objectives.
Valuing nature?.
Environmental economics.
Environmental ethics.
Environmental policy-- Cost effectiveness.
Environmental economics.
Environmental ethics.
Environmental policy-- Cost effectiveness.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE-- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry-- Environmental)