Bryan G. Norton makes a case for why economists must engage in interdisciplinary work that will clarify how preferences in relation to the environment are formed, criticised, and reformed.
Environmental Values (journal)
"Economists' Preferences and the Preferences of Economists"
"Environmental Valuation: Some Problems of Wrong Questions and Misleading Answers"
Jack L. Knetsch discusses the contingent valuation of people’s willingness to pay in relation to environmental valuation.
"What is the Value of Rangitoto Island?"
Dan Vadnjal and Martin O’Connor report on the results of a survey designed to obtain information on how people interpret questions of paying to avoid changes in their views of Rangitoto Island.
"'Sustainable Development': Is it a Useful Concept?"
Wilfred Beckerman discusses “sustainable development” and “sustainability” in relation to welfare maximization.
"Radiation Protection and Moral Theory"
David Sumner and Peter Gilmour discuss the arguments relating to radiation mortality, arguing them to be rooted in a utilitarian system of moral philosophy.
"Four Dogmas of Environmental Economics"
Mark Sagoff discusses the four dogmas of environmental economics.
"Nature Conservation and the Voluntary Principle"
John M. Francis examines the dilemma that arises from the British application of “voluntary principle” legislation to long-term land management strategies in support of nature conservation.
"Valuing Fish in Aotearoa: The Treaty, the Market, and the Intrinsic Value of the Trout"
Martin O’Connor analyses New Zealand fisheries management in Aotearoa in terms of contrasting ethical positions—utilitarian (self-interested, instrumental) rationality, versus an ethic of reciprocal hospitality—so demonstrating how policies can be formulated.
"'Resolving Environmental Disputes: Litigation, Mediation, and the Courting of Ethical Community"
Peter H. Kahn Jr. makes a case that both litigation and mediation need to be embedded within a more ethically comprehensive context, one of “courting ethical community.”
"Sustainability"
Robin Attfield and Barry Wilkins argue that there are ethical criteria independent of the criterion of sustainability, so critiquing the view that a practice which ought not to be followed must therefore not be sustainable.