Valuing Nature?: Economics, ethics and environment

by Foster; John

• ISBN13: 9780415148757
• ISBN10: 0415148758
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-05-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Economics and Environmental Policy	p. 19
The Environmental 'Valuation' Controversy	p. 21
Values and Preferences in Neo-Classical Environmental Economics	p. 32
Economics, Environmental Policy and the Transcendence of Utilitarianism	p. 48
Environmental Value: Limits of an Economic Model	p. 65
Rationality and Social Norms	p. 67
Value Pluralism, Incommensurability and Institutions	p. 75
Pricing the Countryside	p. 89
The Relations Between Preservation Value and Existence Value	p. 103
Substitutability	p. 119
Methodology and Institutions	p. 135
Valuing Nature: New Directions	p. 153
Existence Value, Moral Commitments and In-Kind Valuation	p. 155
Environmental Management Without Environmental Valuation?	p. 170
Multi-Criteria Mapping	p. 186
Environmental Valuation, Deliberative Democracy and Public Decision-Making Institutions	p. 211
Notes	p. 230
Environment and Creative Value	p. 232
Bibliography	p. 247
Index	p. 265
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