This paper offers an ethico-political interpretation of primitivism’s critical relation to modernity in terms of the dialectic between amorality (innocence) and immorality (guilt) within what is characterized as modernity’s “culture of contamination.”
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John A. Curtis argues that there may be instances where assessing wildlife for monetary valuation might be quite reasonable and useful for public policy, even when there are strong arguments against valuation of wildlife and nature.
Peter S. Wenz analyses the notion of efficiency and argues that transportation policies that environmentalists favour—substitution of intercity rail and urban mass transit for most automotive forms of transport—are both efficient and just.
Ronan Palmer discusses philosophical aspects of environmental values.
David Rapport explores what is and what is not implied by the ecosystem health metaphor.
Robert L. Chapman discusses how one might set moral boundaries relating to immigration and environment.
Paul Anand compares use of willingness to pay values with multi-attribute utility as ways of modelling social choice problems in the environment.
Richard Cookson examines Sagoff’s criticisms of “Four Dogmas of Environmental Economics” (Environmental Values, Winter 1994) and argues that none of them are fatal.
Bartholow, Douglas, and Taylor review the AWARE(TM) software distributed by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
Andrew Dobson considers the contribution that a biocentric perspective might make to the ethical debate concerning the practice of genetic engineering.