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Values and preferences in environmental economics

Author
various authors
Date
1994
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-052962)
Publisher | Place of publication
The White Horse Press | Cambridge, UK
Pages
404 p.
Language
English
Field of application
International
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Economy and environment Ethics and environment
Abstract

Contents: (1) Four dogmas of environmental economics (2) Economists' preferences and the preferences of economists (3) Citizens, consumers and the environment: Reflections on 'The economy of the earth' (4) Environmental valuation: Some problems of wrong questions and misleading answers (5) What is the value of Rangitoto Island? (6) Existence value, welfare and altruism