"From the Inside Out"
Ronan Palmer discusses philosophical aspects of environmental values.
Ronan Palmer discusses philosophical aspects of environmental values.
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.
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.
Jan J. Boersema discusses the effects of our limited knowledge of the future on our consideration of future generations.
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.”
Examining the concepts of “security” and “sustainability” Michael Redclift argues that, although the importance of the environment has been increasingly acknowledged since the 1970s, there has been a failure to incorporate other discourses surrounding “nature.”
In this paper, Tony Lynch and David Wells argue that environmental politics needs more than piecemeal institutional efforts or calls for a set of ‘new’ values and that is a realistic, comprehensive, and effective policy programme.
Victoria Davion critiques a conception of intelligence central in AI, and a related concept of reason central in moral philosophy, from an ecological feminist perspective.
Sheila Jasanoff analyses the four mechanisms that according to her have helped to strip development of its subjective and meaning-laden elements.
This paper places the work of a Peruvian NGO (PRATEC), with which the author collaborates, within a broad context of the theory of knowledge.