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"Admiring the High Mountains: The Aesthetics of Environment"
John Haldane discusses the need to consider issues relating to the aesthetics of the environment, using a little known theory of Aquinas.
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"Pantheism, Ethics and Ecology"
Michael Levine discusses pantheism in relation to ecology in the context of the search for the metaphysical and ethical foundations for an ethological ethic.
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"Coastal and Marine Conservation in Britain: Ecology and Aesthetics, Land and Sea"
Adam Cole-King discusses coastal conservation in Britain and the importance of reappraising tradition perceptions towards addressing British coasts’ diverse needs.
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"Sustainability"
Robin Attfield and Barry Wilkins argue that there are ethical criteria independent of the criterion of sustainability, so critiquing the view that a practice which ought not to be followed must therefore not be sustainable.
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"'Sustainable Development': Is it a Useful Concept?"
Wilfred Beckerman discusses “sustainable development” and “sustainability” in relation to welfare maximization.
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"Reconciling Anthropocentric and Nonanthropocentric Environmental Ethics"
James Sterba argues that laying out the most morally defensible versions of an anthropological environmental ethics and nonanthropocentric ethics would lead us to accept the same principles of environmental justice.
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"Valuing Fish in Aotearoa: The Treaty, the Market, and the Intrinsic Value of the Trout"
Martin O’Connor analyses New Zealand fisheries management in Aotearoa in terms of contrasting ethical positions—utilitarian (self-interested, instrumental) rationality, versus an ethic of reciprocal hospitality—so demonstrating how policies can be formulated.
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"Four Dogmas of Environmental Economics"
Mark Sagoff discusses the four dogmas of environmental economics.
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"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.
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"What is the Value of Rangitoto Island?"
Dan Vadnjal and Martin O’Connor report on the results of a survey designed to obtain information on how people interpret questions of paying to avoid changes in their views of Rangitoto Island.