"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.
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.
Wilfred Beckerman discusses “sustainable development” and “sustainability” in relation to welfare maximization.
Alastair Macintosh uses Plato and Bacon as yardsticks to consider the British government’s White Paper on science together with government research council reports as a basis for critiquing current science policy and its intensifying orientation, British and worldwide, towards industrial and military development.
Richard Cookson examines Sagoff’s criticisms of “Four Dogmas of Environmental Economics” (Environmental Values, Winter 1994) and argues that none of them are fatal.
Wilfred Beckerman and Joanna Pasek discuss criticisms of contingent valuation (CV) and allied techniques for estimating the intensity of peoples’ preferences for the environment, concluding that little progress will be made until both sides in the debate recognise what is valid in their opponents’ arguments.
Daniel Holbrook discusses two principles often found in environmental ethics—self-realization and environmental preservation—as two logically independent principles.
Chris Miller discusses the ecocentric approach on habitats in Britain.