The Earthscan reader in environmental values / edited by Linda Kalof and Terre Satterfield.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kalof, Linda.

Satterfield, Terre, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental sciences.

Environmental responsibility.

Environmental ethics.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 334 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2005.

Summary:

This comprehensive reader offers in-depth analyses of critical developments in environmental values, bringing together in one volume the most influential scholarship in the field. Each carefully selected contribution assesses some of the most pressing questions of our time, focusing on the relationship between human values, world views and preferences, and the natural world. As the first reader of its kind in a rapidly expanding multidisciplinary field, this text provides students with a valuable framework for understanding the intellectual progress and future development of the study of environmental values. The book clearly emphasizes that environmental values must be understood not only as economic, benefit-cost or 'willingness to pay' considerations, but also as normative principles that are fundamental to behaviour and management practices.

Contents:

Environmental Values: An Introduction - Relativistic and Axiomatic Traditions in the Study of Environmental Values / Terre Satterfield, Linda Kalof xxi

Part 1 Economic Themes in Environmental Values

1 Contingent Valuation: A User's Guide / Richard T. Carson 6

2 Economic and Ecological Concepts for Valuing Ecosystem Services / Stephen C. Farber, Robert Costanza, Matthew A. Wilson 18

3 The Development of Environmental Thinking in Economics / Clive L. Spash 41

Part 2 Philosophical and Ethical Themes in Environmental Values

4 Non-Anthropocentric Value Theory and Environmental Ethics / J. Baird Callicott 67

5 Environmental Ethics and Weak Anthropocentrism / Bryan G. Norton 81

6 A Defence of the Deep Ecology Movement / Arne Naess 97

7 Radical American Environmentalism and 'Wilderness' Preservation: A Third World Critique / Ramachandra Guha 102

8 Class, Race and Gender Discourse in the Ecofeminism/Deep Ecology Debate / Ariel Salleh 113

9 The Biological Basis for Human Values of Nature / Stephen R. Kellert 131

Part 3 Anthropological and Sociological Themes in Environmental Values

10 Christianity, Environmentalism and the Theoretical Problem of Fundamentalism / Douglas Lee Eckberg, T. Jean Blocker 156

11 Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale / Riley E. Dunlap, Kent D. Van Liere, Angela G. Mertig, Robert Emmet Jones 172

12 Value Orientations, Gender and Environmental Concern / Paul C. Stern, Thomas Dietz, Linda Kalof 188

13 Environmental Values: A Place-Based Theory / Bryan G. Norton, Bruce Hannon 207

Part 4 Judgement and Decision Making Themes in Environmental Values

14 Valuing Public Goods: The Purchase of Moral Satisfaction / Daniel Kahneman, Jack L. Knetsch 231

15 Protected Values / Jonathan Baron, Mark Spranca 246

16 Aggregation and Deliberation in Valuing Public Goods: A Look Beyond Contingent Pricing / Mark Sagoff 273

17 Valuing Environmental Resources: A Constructive Approach / Robin Gregory, Sarah Lichtenstein, Paul Slovic 296

18 What Should We Do? Human Ecology and Collective Decision Making / Thomas Dietz 316.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1844071677

1844071669

OCLC:

59756060