Values and the Environment | |
Environments and values | |
Living from the world | |
Living in the world | |
Living with the world | |
Addressing Value Conflicts | |
Value conflicts | |
The distribution of goods and harms | |
Addressing conflicts | |
Utilitarian approaches to environmental decision making | |
Human well-being and the natural world | |
Introduction | |
Welfare: Hedonism, preferences and objective lists | |
The Hedonistic account of well-being | |
Preference utilitarianism | |
Objectivist accounts of welfare 31 | |
Making comparisons: utilitarianism, economics and efficiency | |
Consequentialism and its critics | |
Introduction | |
Consequentialism permits too much | |
What is the problem with consequentialism? The moral standing of individuals | |
Rights, conflicts and community | |
Consequentialism demands too much | |
What is the problem with consequentialism? Agent-based restrictions on action | |
Virtues and environmental concern | |
Consequentialist responses | |
Indirect utilitarianism | |
Extending the account of the good | |
Ethical pluralism and the limits of theory | |
Equality, justice and environment | |
Utilitarianism and distribution | |
Equality in moral standing | |
Indirect utilitarian arguments for distributive equality | |
Economics, efficiency and equality | |
Willingness to pay | |
The Kaldor-Hicks compensation test | |
Discounting the future | |
Egalitarian ethics | |
Consequentialism without maximisation | |
The priority view | |
Telic egalitarianism | |
Deontological responses | |
Community, character and equality | |
Equality of what? | |
Value Pluralism, value commensurability and environmental choice | |
Value monism | |
Value pluralism | |
Trading-off values | |
Constitutive incommensurabilities | |
Value-pluralism, consequentialism, and the alternatives | |
Structural pluralism | |
Choice without commensurability | |
What can we expect from a theory of rational choice? | |
A New Environmental Ethic? | |
The moral considerability of the non-human world | |
New ethics for old? | |
Moral considerability | |
Extending the boundaries of moral considerability | |
New theories for old? | |
Environment, meta-ethics and intrinsic value | |
Meta-ethics and normative ethics | |
Intrinsic value | |
Is the rejection of meta-ethical realism compatible with an environmental ethic? | |
Objective value and the flourishing of living things | |
Environmental ethics through thick and thin | |
Nature and the natural | |
Valuing the 'natural' | |
The complexity of 'nature' | |
Some distinctions | |
Natural and artificial | |
Natural and cultural | |
Nature as wilderness | |
The value of natural things | |
Nature Conservation | |
A paradox? | |
On restoring the value of nature | |
Restitutive ecology | |
History, narrative and environmental goods | |
The narratives of nature Chapter | |
Nature and narrative | |
Three walks | |
History and processes as sources of value | |
Going back to nature? | |
Old worlds and new | |
Narrative and nature Chapter | |
Biodiversity: biology as biography | |
The itemising approach to environmental values | |
The nature of biodiversity - conceptual clarifications | |
The attractions of itemisation | |
Biodiversity and environmental sustainability | |
Time, history and biodiversity | |
Environmental ethics and the dangers of moral trumps Chapter | |
Sustainability and human well-being | |
Sustainability: of what, for whom and why? | |
Economic accounts of sustainability | |
Sustainability: weak and strong | |
Human well-being and substitutability | |
From preferences to needs | |
Narrative, human-well being and sustainability | |
Sustainability without capital Chapter | |
Public decisions and environmental goods | |
Procedural rationality and deliberative institutions | |
Decisions in context | |
Responsibility and character | |
What makes for good decisions? | |
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