"Green Economics"
David Pearce analyzes the features and possible outcome of green economics.
David Pearce analyzes the features and possible outcome of green economics.
William Aiken examines the tradition of human rights and their role in our currently increasing environmental awareness.
Michael Everett examines how environmental movements develop and how they deal with economic counterforces and motivate political actors to pass effective environmental regulations.
Martinez-Alier discusses issues relating to the concept of “sustainable development” as used by the Brundtland Commission.
Paul Craig, Harold Glasser, and Willett Kempton interview senior policy advisors to four European governments active in global climate change negotiations and the UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) process.
Alan MacQuillan discusses the advent of new forestry in the United States as representing a traumatic shift in the philosophy of national forestry praxis, a broadening of values to include aesthetics and sustainability of natural ecological process.
John Adams discusses the resurgence of cost-benefit analysis and its failures relating to lack of progress and environmental damage caused by major transport projects.
Shrader-Frechette and McCoy use examples related to preservation versus development, hunting versus animal rights, and controversies over pest control, to show that, because ecology is conceptually and theoretically underdetermined, environmental values often influence the practice of ecological science.
Wilfred Beckerman discusses “sustainable development” and “sustainability” in relation to welfare maximization.
Jack L. Knetsch discusses the contingent valuation of people’s willingness to pay in relation to environmental valuation.