Dale Jamieson develops several objections to the concept of ‘ecosystem health’ in environmental policy, outlining problems in governance institutions, value structures, and knowledge systems.
Tina Loo is talking about hydro-electric development and high modernism and Jonathan Peyton is interviewed on the history of resource conflict in northern British Columbia.
Alastair Macintosh uses Plato and Bacon as yardsticks to consider the British government’s White Paper on science together with government research council reports as a basis for critiquing current science policy and its intensifying orientation, British and worldwide, towards industrial and military development.
Richard Cookson examines Sagoff’s criticisms of “Four Dogmas of Environmental Economics” (Environmental Values, Winter 1994) and argues that none of them are fatal.
Markus J. Peterson and Tarla Rai Peterson make an argument for the synergy between deep, feminist, and scientific ecology towards improving environmental policy.
Vicki Arroyo uses environmental law and her background in biology and ecology to help prepare for global climate change.
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.
Daniel Holbrook discusses two principles often found in environmental ethics—self-realization and environmental preservation—as two logically independent principles.
Chris Miller discusses the ecocentric approach on habitats in Britain.
Clive L. Spash traces the thinking of a sub-group of established economists trying to convey an environmental critique of the mainstream into the late 20th century, via the development of associations and journals in the USA and Europe.
