The Earthscan Reader in Environmental Values
Edited By Linda Kalof, Michigan State University, USA and Terre Satterfield, University of British Columbia, Canada
Hardback
This comprehensive reader offers in-depth analyses of critical developments in environmental values, bringing together in one volume the most influential scholarship in the field. Each carefully selected contribution assesses some of the most pressing questions of our time, focusing on the relationship between human values, world views and preferences, and the natural world.
As the first reader of its kind in a rapidly expanding multidisciplinary field, this text provides students with a valuable framework for understanding the intellectual progress and future development of the study of environmental values. The book clearly emphasizes that environmental values must be understood not only as economic, benefit-cost or 'willingness to pay' considerations, but also as normative principles that are fundamental to behaviour and management practices.
CONTENTS (Expand Contents)
Environmental Values: An Introduction
Part I: Economic Themes in Environmental Values
Contingent Valuation: A User's Guide
Economic and Ecological Concepts for Valuing Ecosystem Services
The Development of Environmental Thinking in Economics
Part II: Philosophical and Ethical Themes in Environmental Values
Non-Anthropocentric Value Theory and Environmental Ethics
Environmental Ethics and Weak Anthropocentrism
A Defence of the Deep Ecology Movement
Radical American Environmentalism and 'Wilderness' Preservation: A Third World Critique
Class, Race and Gender Discourse in the Ecofeminism/Deep Ecology Debate
The Biological Basis for Human Values of Nature
Part III: Anthropological and Sociological Themes in Environmental Values
Christianity, Environmentalism and the Theoretical Problem of Fundamentalism
Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale
Value Orientations, Gender and Environmental Concern
Environmental Values: A Place-Based Theory
Part IV: Judgement and Decision Making Themes in Environmental Values
Valuing Public Goods: The Purchase of Moral Satisfaction
Protected Values
Aggregation and Deliberation in Valuing Public Goods: A Look Beyond Contingent Pricing
Valuing Environmental Resources: A Constructive Approach
What Should We Do? Human Ecology and Collective Decision Making
Linda Kalof is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University, USA.
Terre Satterfield is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Canada