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"Anthropocentrism: A Misunderstood Problem"
Tim Hayward discusses the reason for his claim that anthropocentrism is a misunderstood problem.
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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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"The Consequentialist Side of Environmental Ethics"
Daniel Holbrook discusses two principles often found in environmental ethics—self-realization and environmental preservation—as two logically independent principles.
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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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"Nonuse Values and the Environment: Economic and Ethical Motivations"
Tom Crowards discusses nonuse values as a potentially very important, but controversial, aspect of the economic valuation of the environment, introducing the concept of Safe Minimum Standards.
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"Valuation as Revelation and Reconciliation"
Tom O’Riordan discusses valuation as revelation and reconciliation, arguing that a more legitimate participatory form of democracy is required to reveal valuation through consensual negotiation.
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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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"Bach's Butterfly Effect: Culture, Environment and History"
I.G. Simmons examines the basic thesis that environmental values must spring from the economic relations of human societies.
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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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"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.