Valuing the environment /
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Author / Creator: | Malnes, Raino. |
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Imprint: | Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distriburted exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1995. |
Description: | xiv, 136 p. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Issues in environmental politics |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2334664 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Environmental dilemmas: the case of climate policy. The greenhouse theory. Objections to the greenhouse theory. The majority argument. The sceptical argument. The piecemeal approach. The risk of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. General lessons
- 2. The theory of interest and the priority principle. Method. The theory of interest. The priority principle
- 3. Risk and hard cases. Modes of ignorance and risk evaluation. Needs in conflict. Desires in conflict
- 4. Realism and responsibility. Special relationships and realism. Defining reasonable partiality. Responsibility
- 5. The interests of future people. The priority principle and future people. The presumption of progress. Compensation. Realism and remote risk. 6. Conclusion. The argument in retrospect. Against ecological egalitarianism. Against the green theory of value. A final look at climate policy: what should be done?