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This essay explores three case studies that illustrate the exemplary use of economic analysis in environmental decision-making.

This paper adopts a social constructionist perspective to examine how the biodiversity “claim” is constructed and contested at local level.

In the introduction to this issue of Environmental Values on “Environment, Policy and Participation,” Harriet Bulkeley and Arthur P.J. Mol outline some features of these recent developments in participatory environmental governance, indicate some key questions that arise, and give an overview of the collection of papers in this special issue.

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.”

Ronan Palmer discusses philosophical aspects of environmental values.

Richard Cookson examines Sagoff’s criticisms of “Four Dogmas of Environmental Economics” (Environmental Values, Winter 1994) and argues that none of them are fatal.

Clive L. Spash traces the thinking of a sub-group of established economists trying to convey an environmental critique of the mainstream into the late 20th century, via the development of associations and journals in the USA and Europe.

In this paper, Hein-Anton van der Heijden discusses Dutch politics of “New Nature.”

The article deals with some implications of radical uncertainty for participatory democracy, and more precisely for Participatory Technology Assessment (PTA).

The present paper is a commentary on very interesting papers by Thomas Dunlap, Thomas Hill, and Kimberly Smith, who take up the spiritual, ethical, and political perspectives respectively. Their accounts are described and evaluated.