economy

In this paper Katerina Soma introduces her concept of Natura economica.

Clive L. Spash’s editorial for Environmental Values 17.

This essay aims to reconstruct Herman Daly and John Cobb’s criticism of growth from the person-in-community approach.

Barnabas Dickson analyses and criticises ethicist claims in environmental philosophy.

Peter Lucas responds to Laura Westra’s article “The Disvalue of ‘Contingent Valuation’ and the Problem of the ‘Expectation Gap’ ” (Environmental Values 9, no. 2 (2000): 153–71).

Tim Jackson examines the influence of the Darwinian metaphor “the struggle for existence” on a variety of scientific theories which inform our current understanding of the prospects for sustainable development.

The paper argues that ecological services are either too “lumpy” to price in incremental units (for example, climatic systems), priced competitively, or too cheap to meter. The paper considers counter-examples and objections.

Tom Crowards discusses nonuse values as a potentially very important, but controversial, aspect of the economic valuation of the environment, introducing the concept of Safe Minimum Standards.

Tom O’Riordan discusses valuation as revelation and reconciliation, arguing that a more legitimate participatory form of democracy is required to reveal valuation through consensual negotiation.

In this essay, Holmes Rolston analysis the role of religion in the environmental discourse.