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"Environmental Valuation: Some Problems of Wrong Questions and Misleading Answers"
Jack L. Knetsch discusses the contingent valuation of people’s willingness to pay in relation to environmental valuation.
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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.
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"How Would you Like your 'Sustainability,' Sir? Weak or Strong? A Reply to my Critics"
Wilfred Beckerman responds to the Jacobs and Daly criticisms of his earlier article in the same journal criticising the concept of “sustainable development.”
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"The Precautionary Principle in Contemporary Environmental Politics"
Timothy O’Riordan and Andrew Jordan discuss the place of the precautionary principle in contemporary environmental politics, arguing that its future looks promising but not assured.
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Episode 2: "Natural Resource Development in British Columbia"
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.
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Episode 4: "Environmental Justice on the Hamilton Waterfront"
Ken Cruikshank and Nancy Bouchier’s research on the environmental history of the Hamilton, Ontario, waterfront since 1955 looks at who determines the environmental health of a community.
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"The Emperor has no Clothes...Let us Paint our Loincloths Rainbow: A Classical and Feminist Critique of Contemporary Science Policy"
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.
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Nature's Past episode 22: "A Century of Parks Canada"
In episode 22 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj talks to Claire Campbell, the editor of A Century of Parks Canada, and contributing authors George Colpitts and Gwynn Langemann on Canada’s national parks history from coast to coast.
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Climate Justice
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Marcus Vogt discusses climate change as an issue of justice. Sustainability, in Vogt’s view, needs to look to the humanities—to philosophy, theology, sociology, history, and cultural studies—for accompanying critical perspectives.
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"Ecology: Scientific, Deep and Feminist"
Markus J. Peterson and Tarla Rai Peterson make an argument for the synergy between deep, feminist, and scientific ecology towards improving environmental policy.