"'Sustainable Development': Is it a Useful Concept?"
Wilfred Beckerman discusses “sustainable development” and “sustainability” in relation to welfare maximization.
Wilfred Beckerman discusses “sustainable development” and “sustainability” in relation to welfare maximization.
James Sterba argues that laying out the most morally defensible versions of an anthropological environmental ethics and nonanthropocentric ethics would lead us to accept the same principles of environmental justice.
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.
Mark Sagoff discusses the four dogmas of environmental economics.
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.
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.
Jonathan Aldred outlines the need for a fundamental redefinition of existence value in environmental economists.
Peter Alpert discusses how implicit values in biology hold much promise for improving our relations with nature and each other.
J. M. Howarth outlines how phenomenological enquiry can reveal and criticise modernist assumptions, while traditional phenomenological notions might form a more eco-friendly framework for the value bases of interactions within nature.
Bruce Morito shows that our inclusion as members of the ecological community makes our valuational activity an integral and transformational element within more comprehensive ecological processes, thus indicating a need for our moral commitment to the environment to be radically reshaped.