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Overview
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 issues of our time, focusing on the relationship between human values, world views and preferences, and the natural world.Synopsis
In an effort to define the meaning, representations and study of environmental values in the context of policy decisions about land management and conservation efforts, the contributors of these 18 articles describe economic, philosophical, ethical, anthropological and sociological themes as well as issues of judgment and decision making. They describe such elements as contingent valuation, the value of ecosystem services, the development of environmental thinking in economics, non-anthropocentric value theory and environmental ethics, class, race and gender discourse, Christian fundamentalism, value orientations, the value of moral satisfaction, and collective decision-making. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR