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Daniel Holbrook discusses two principles often found in environmental ethics—self-realization and environmental preservation—as two logically independent principles.

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.

Onora O’Neill discusses environmental values and anthropocentrism and speciesism, with reference to obligation-based reasoning.

I.G. Simmons examines the basic thesis that environmental values must spring from the economic relations of human societies.

Richard B. Harris discusses China’s policies in wildlife conservation, particularly with regard to endangered species to suggest that Western criticisms of Chinese utilitarian attitudes are inappropriate, ineffective, and possibly counter-productive.

Maurie J. Cohen introduces this special issue of Environmental Values.

Sheila Jasanoff reflects on the role of science in promoting convergent perceptions of risk across disparate political cultures.

Allan Greenbaum discusses environmental thought as cosmological intervention.

Robin Grove-White writes an afterword on this special issue of Environmental Values.

John S. Akama, Christopher L. Lant, and G. Wesley Burnett use a political-ecological framework in the analysis of the social factors of wildlife conservation in Kenya.