Environmental Values (journal)

The present article offers an analysis of human surprise and ignorance in the context of environmental issues.

Michael Everett examines how environmental movements develop and how they deal with economic counterforces and motivate political actors to pass effective environmental regulations.

William Aiken examines the tradition of human rights and their role in our currently increasing environmental awareness.

Does it make sense to say that one should not, or ought not, take pleasure in certain objects or events within the natural environment? Cheryl Foster explores ethical constraints on aesthetic activity and appreciation.

Diane Saxe argues that a stronger “fiduciary” duty is required where corporations take risks with the environment and that economic activities must move from open to closed (sustainable) systems.

Sir Crispin Tickell scans what industrial countries can and have to do in order to give a lead in global arrangements to alleviate economic and ecological problems.

David Pearce analyzes the features and possible outcome of green economics.

Steven Luper-Foy offers a defence of the resource equity principle from both points of view, the libertarian and the Rawlsian.

Economics and contemporary ethical theory must come to terms with the fact that not everything from consumer goods to endangered species can be given a value in order to make them comparable.

A new perception of time is needed to help predict the long term effects of climate change on the environment as well as on human social systems.