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"From the Inside Out"
Ronan Palmer discusses philosophical aspects of environmental values.
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"The Environment as a Commodity"
This paper addresses problems related to transferring market concepts to non-market domains.
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"Is Valuing Nature Contributing to Policy Development?"
This paper examines technical, ethical and ecological science perspectives on environmental valuation, and discusses problems in terms of the implications for practical policy-making.
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"Conceptions of Value in Environmental Decision-Making"
In their article, John O’Neill and Clive L. Splash analyse how local processes of envrionmental decision-making can enter into good policy-making processes.
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"The Indifference Curve, Motivation, and Morality in Contingent Valuation"
Rob Hart and Uwe Latacz-Lohmann analyze inconsistencies in contingent valuation surveys, which have tended to yield results that seem to go contrary to what is seen as “rational choice.”
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Lundqvist, Lennart J., "A Green Fist in a Velvet Glove: The Ecological State and Sustainable Development"
The article discusses how far the ecological state can go in pursuing sustainable development without intruding on democratic values. Focussing on social choice mechanisms, it draws the image of the ecological state as a “green fist in a velvet glove.”
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"Environmental Values and Adaptive Management"
In this paper, Bryan G. Norton and Anne C. Steinemann offer a new valuation approach which embodies the core principles of adaptive management, which is experimental, multi-scalar, and place-based.
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Aldred, Jonathan, "Cost-Benefit Analysis, Incommensurability and Rough Equality"
Jonathan Aldred tests aspects of the claim that ocussing
cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is limited in scope, as some things cannot be meaningfully priced. He focuses on problems of incomparability and incommensurability, and compares CBA to rough equality.
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A Laboratory for the Implementation of "Wilderness" in Central Europe—The Bavarian Forest National Park
The Bavarian Forest National Park, situated in South-Eastern Germany along the boundary with the Czech Republic, was established as the country’s first national park in October 1970.
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"New Modernities: Reimagining Science, Technology and Development"
Sheila Jasanoff analyses the four mechanisms that according to her have helped to strip development of its subjective and meaning-laden elements.