Description
Book SynopsisIt is not only green thinkers who value the environment. Decisions on how to respond to global environmental change, energy policy or where to site a new road are all informed by values. People bring very different sets of values to the understanding of environmental issues depending on whether they come from developed or developing countries, are applying an expert or lay person judgment, are making policy decisions from a distance or are directly affected at their local level. This book examines the multitude of ways in which we value the environment from a social science perspective. This is a multidisciplinary collection with contributions from academics with backgrounds in philosophy, sociology, psychology, economics, geography, law and engineering. The book is divided into four sections: the first addresses fundamental theoretical and conceptual issues; the second explores the methodological problems of uncovering people s values; the third looks at some of the policy dilemmas wh
Table of ContentsPartial table of contents:
DEBATES AND ISSUES.
Values and Global Environmental Change (M. Redclift).
A Green Thought in a Green Shade: A Critique of the Rationalisationof Environmental Values (M. Smith).
EVALUATING ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES.
European Values and Social Psychology: A European Common Market orCommon's Dilemma?
(J. Chase & I. Panagopoulos).
POLICY DILEMMAS.
Environmental Priorities in Different Development Situations:Electricity, Environment and Development (P. Pearson).
Expert and Layperson Evaluation of Urban Environmental Quality: The"Natural" Versus the "Built" Environment (M. Bonnes & M.Bonaiuto).
CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES.
Questioning Values in Environmental Education (D. Uzzell, etal.).
World Views and Environmental Action: A Practical Exercise (M.Haigh).
Indexes.
