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.
In this essay, Holmes Rolston analysis the role of religion in the environmental discourse.
Giuseppe Munda presents a systematic discussion, mainly for non-economists, on economic approaches to the concept of sustainable development.
I.G. Simmons examines the basic thesis that environmental values must spring from the economic relations of human societies.
In his paper, Dan Greenwood tries to give an ecological response to Austrian economics.
This paper examines the contestation of two forms of environmentalism, institutional ecomodernism versus a grassroots ecopopulism within the context of the ongoing dispute between a local community in the west of Ireland and both multinationals and the state, who are attempting to run gas pipelines from the Atlantic Corrib Field through the rural community’s lands.
Clive L. Spash presents a critical review of some recent research by social psychologists in the US attempting to explain stated behaviour in contingent valuation.
Marian K. Deblonde outlines the case for an economic paradigm that differs from conventional (i.e. neo-classical welfare) environmental economics, arguing that an alternative paradigm demands a different interpretation of economic “objectivity.”
This paper discusses the economic and philosophical inadequacies that have characterized the Project Tiger scheme in India.
This analysis raises questions about the extent to which ecological economics has been able to influence real-world decisions and policy.
