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Booth, Douglas E., “Preserving Old-Growth Forest Ecosystems: Valuation and Policy”
Douglas E. Booth discusses valuation and policy surrounding preservation of old-growth forest ecosystems.
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"Plural Values and Environmental Valuation"
Wilfred Beckerman and Joanna Pasek discuss criticisms of contingent valuation (CV) and allied techniques for estimating the intensity of peoples’ preferences for the environment, concluding that little progress will be made until both sides in the debate recognise what is valid in their opponents’ arguments.
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"Environmental Values, Anthropocentrism and Speciesism"
Onora O’Neill discusses environmental values and anthropocentrism and speciesism, with reference to obligation-based reasoning.
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"Attitudes and Issues Preventing Bans on Toxic Lead Shot and Sinkers in North America and Europe"
Vernon G. Thomas discuss attitudes and issues preventing bans on toxic lead shot and sinkers in North America and Europe, to point out that despite the parallels between these countries’ reforms, there has been little parity between the banning of lead shot and fishing sinkers.
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"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.
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"Biodiversity as the Source of Biological Resources"
Paul M. Wood discusses biodiversity as the source of biological resources.
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"Democratising Nature? The Political Morality of Wilderness Preservationists"
Michael Mason argues that Habermasian moral theory reveals a key tension between, on the one hand, an ethical commitment to wilderness preservation informed by deep ecological and bioregional principles that is oriented to a naturalistic value order and, on the other, the procedural norms of democratic participation.
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"Attributing 'Priority' to Habitats"
Chris Miller discusses the ecocentric approach on habitats in Britain.
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Curtis, Allan and Terry De Lacey, "Landcare, Stewardship and Sustainable Agriculture in Australia"
Allan Curtis and Terry De Lacey analyze perceptions of the Australian grassroots movement “Landcare” through landholder surveys, thereby discussing wider concepts of natural resource management, stewardship and sustainable agriculture in Australia.
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"Beyond Human Racism"
Robyn Eckersley discusses the concepts of “human racism” and ecocentricm in relation to Tony Lynch and David Wells’ argument that any attempt to develop a non-anthropocentric morality must invariably slide back to either anthropocentrism (either weak or strong) or a highly repugnant misanthropy in cases of direct conflict between the survival needs of humans and nonhuman species.