economy

Barnabas Dickson analyses and criticises ethicist claims in environmental philosophy.

Peter Lucas responds to Laura Westra’s article “The Disvalue of ‘Contingent Valuation’ and the Problem of the ‘Expectation Gap’ ” (Environmental Values 9, no. 2 (2000): 153–71).

Tim Jackson examines the influence of the Darwinian metaphor “the struggle for existence” on a variety of scientific theories which inform our current understanding of the prospects for sustainable development.

The paper argues that ecological services are either too “lumpy” to price in incremental units (for example, climatic systems), priced competitively, or too cheap to meter. The paper considers counter-examples and objections.

Tom Crowards discusses nonuse values as a potentially very important, but controversial, aspect of the economic valuation of the environment, introducing the concept of Safe Minimum Standards.

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.