"Economists' Preferences and the Preferences of Economists"
Bryan G. Norton makes a case for why economists must engage in interdisciplinary work that will clarify how preferences in relation to the environment are formed, criticised, and reformed.
Bryan G. Norton makes a case for why economists must engage in interdisciplinary work that will clarify how preferences in relation to the environment are formed, criticised, and reformed.
Richard Cookson examines Sagoff’s criticisms of “Four Dogmas of Environmental Economics” (Environmental Values, Winter 1994) and argues that none of them are fatal.
Wild Earth 5, no. 1 focuses on prairie dog ecosystems and includes a Minnesota biosphere recovery strategy.
Tom Crowards discusses nonuse values as a potentially very important, but controversial, aspect of the economic valuation of the environment, introducing the concept of Safe Minimum Standards.
Tom O’Riordan discusses valuation as revelation and reconciliation, arguing that a more legitimate participatory form of democracy is required to reveal valuation through consensual negotiation.
I.G. Simmons examines the basic thesis that environmental values must spring from the economic relations of human societies.
Giuseppe Munda presents a systematic discussion, mainly for non-economists, on economic approaches to the concept of sustainable development.
Michael Prior discusses the theory behind economic valuation, concluding that all environmental valuation is at odds with beliefs based upon the existence of objective and intrinsic values.
Andrew Vincent examines the economic evaluation of the environment, concluding it is at odds with beliefs based upon objective and intrinsic values.
Brent K. Marshall discusses globalization, environmental degradation, and Ulrich Beck’s “Risk Society.”