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.
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
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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
