"Environmental Economics, Ecological Economics and the Concept of Sustainable Development"
Giuseppe Munda presents a systematic discussion, mainly for non-economists, on economic approaches to the concept of sustainable development.
Giuseppe Munda presents a systematic discussion, mainly for non-economists, on economic approaches to the concept of sustainable development.
The article discusses how far the ecological state can go in pursuing sustainable development without intruding on democratic values. Focussing on social choice mechanisms, it draws the image of the ecological state as a “green fist in a velvet glove.”
By investigating landscape change and land reform in Northwest Scotland, this study illustrates how the multifaceted concept of landscape mediates cultural, social and political issues, and is continually evolving in response to aesthetic, ideological and institutional agencies.
This paper examines three forest value orientations—clusters of interrelated values and basic beliefs about forests—that emerged from an analysis of the public discourse about forest planning, management, and policy in the United States.
In their article, William R. Sheate and J. Ivan Scrase argue that for a risk-oriented framing to succeed, new assumptions about causation and a new ethical outlook are now needed.
This paper argues that restoration attempts should not be dismissed “out of hand,” and can be conducted outside of a “dominator logic.”
In this paper Michael S. Carolan looks at Michel Foucault and Fernand Braudel’s conception of how economy enters into nature.
Emily Brady’s editorial for Environmental Values 16.
Anne Chapman presents the world and the earth in the thought of Hannah Arendt.
Isis Brook’s editorial for Environmental Values 17.