"Decisions vs. Willingness-to-Pay in Social Choice"
Paul Anand compares use of willingness to pay values with multi-attribute utility as ways of modelling social choice problems in the environment.
Paul Anand compares use of willingness to pay values with multi-attribute utility as ways of modelling social choice problems in the environment.
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.
Anthony C., Burton, Susan M. Chilton, and Martin K. Jones explores the psychological foundations of the “Willingness to Pay/Willingness to Accept” discrepancy.
This paper addresses problems related to transferring market concepts to non-market domains.
This paper examines technical, ethical and ecological science perspectives on environmental valuation, and discusses problems in terms of the implications for practical policy-making.
In their article, John O’Neill and Clive L. Splash analyse how local processes of envrionmental decision-making can enter into good policy-making processes.
Anna Davies addresses the products of a public participation exercise conducted in Luton, south-east England in order to consider what it is that “silence knows.”
Y. S. Lo argues that textual evidence from David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature does not support J. Baird Callicott’s professedly Humean yet holistic environmental ethic, which understands the community (e.g., the biotic community) as a ‘metaorganismic’ entity ‘over and above’ its individual members.
The concept of intrinsic value is shown to be instantiated, and defended against a range of criticisms.
In this essay, Marks Woods and Paul Veatch Moriatry try to answer two philosophical questions in order to develop and enact sensible policies: (1) What exactly makes a species native or exotic, and (2) What values are at stake?