Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices

Copyright © 2002 Blackwell Publisher Ltd

Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices

Editor(s): Daniel W. Bromley, Jouni Paavola

Published Online: 17 MAR 2008

Print ISBN: 9780631229681

Online ISBN: 9780470693674

DOI: 10.1002/9780470693674

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Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices offers a comprehensive analysis of the ethical problems associated with basing environmental policy on economic analysis, and ways to overcome these problems.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xi)

  2. Part I: Introduction

    1. Chapter 1

      Contested Choices (pages 3–14)

      Jouni Paavola and Daniel W. Bromley

  3. Part II: Economics, Ethics, and Policy Choices

    1. Chapter 2

      Are Choices Tradeoffs? (pages 17–34)

      Alan Holland

    2. Chapter 3

      The Ignorance Argument: What Must we Know to be Fair to the Future? (pages 35–52)

      Bryan Norton

    3. Chapter 4

      Benefit–Cost Considerations Should be Decisive when there is Nothing more Important at Stake (pages 53–68)

      Alan Randall

    4. Chapter 5

      Environmental Policy as a Process of Reasonable Valuing (pages 69–83)

      Juha Hiedanpää and Daniel W. Bromley

  4. Part III: Ethical Concerns and Policy Goals

    1. Chapter 6

      Rethinking the Choice and Performance of Environmental Policies (pages 87–102)

      Jouni Paavola

    2. Chapter 7

      What Should we do with Inconsistent, Nonwelfaristic, and Undeveloped Preferences? (pages 103–119)

      Olof Johansson-Stenman

    3. Chapter 8

      Awkward Choices: Economics and Nature Conservation (pages 120–130)

      Nick Hanley and Jason F. Shogren

  5. Part IV: Ethical Dimensions of Policy Consequences

    1. Chapter 9

      All Environmental Policy Instruments Require a Moral Choice as to whose Interests Count (pages 133–147)

      A. Allan Schmid

    2. Chapter 10

      Efficient or Fair: Ethical Paradoxes in Environmental Policy (pages 148–163)

      Arild Vatn

    3. Chapter 11

      Trading with the Enemy? Examining North—South Perspectives in the Climate Change Debate (pages 164–180)

      Bhaskar Vira

    4. Chapter 12

      Social Costs and Sustainability (pages 181–201)

      Martin O'Connor

  6. Part V: Ethics in Action: Empirical Analyses

    1. Chapter 13

      Empirical Signs of Ethical Concern in Economic Valuation of the Environment (pages 205–221)

      Clive L. Spash

    2. Chapter 14

      Motivating Existence Values: The Many and Varied Sources of the Stated WTP for Endangered Species (pages 221–238)

      Andreas Kontoleon and Timothy Swanson

    3. Chapter 15

      Environmental and Ethical Dimensions of the Provision of a Basic Need: Water and Sanitation Services in East Africa (pages 239–257)

      Nick Johnstone, John Hompson, Munguti Katui-Katua, Mark Mujwajuzi, James Tumwine, Elizabeth Wood and Ina Porras

  7. Part VI: Conclusions

    1. Chapter 16

      Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy (pages 261–276)

      Daniel W. Bromley and Jouni Paavola

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      Index (pages 277–286)

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