“Sustainability, Systems and Meaning”
Joachim Schuetz argues that sustainability should be interpreted as a quest for conscious adoption of a global systems identity.
Joachim Schuetz argues that sustainability should be interpreted as a quest for conscious adoption of a global systems identity.
Peter Lucas responds to Laura Westra’s article “The Disvalue of ‘Contingent Valuation’ and the Problem of the ‘Expectation Gap’ ” (Environmental Values 9, no. 2 (2000): 153–71).
Ronan Palmer discusses philosophical aspects of environmental values.
Paul Anand compares use of willingness to pay values with multi-attribute utility as ways of modelling social choice problems in the environment.
Clive L. Spash presents a critical review of some recent research by social psychologists in the US attempting to explain stated behaviour in contingent valuation.
Anthony C., Burton, Susan M. Chilton, and Martin K. Jones explores the psychological foundations of the “Willingness to Pay/Willingness to Accept” discrepancy.
This paper addresses problems related to transferring market concepts to non-market domains.
This paper examines technical, ethical and ecological science perspectives on environmental valuation, and discusses problems in terms of the implications for practical policy-making.
Carsten Helm and Udo Simonis develop a proposal for distributing common resources with regard to international climate policy, based on widely accepted equity criteria.
Martin Mulligan explores the Australian conservation movement, arguing that future conservation strategies need to tackle “frontier mentality” and a heavy reliance on scientific rationale. He suggests learning from the Australian Aborigines and non-rational approaches to nature conservation.