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.

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.

List of Figures.List of Tables.List of Contributors.Preface.Part I: Introduction.1. Contested Choices. (Jouni Paavola and Daniel W. Bromley).Part II: Economics, Ethics, and Policy Choices.2. Are Choices Trade-offs? (Alan Holland).3. The Ignorance Argument: What Must We Know to Be Fair to theFuture? (Bryan Norton).4. Benefit-Cost Considerations Should Be Decisive When There isNothing More Important at Stake. (Alan Randall).5. Environmental Policy as the Process of Reasonable Valuing.(Juha Hiedanpaa and Daniel W. Bromley).Part III: Ethical Concerns and Policy Goals.6. Rethinking the Choice and Performance of EnvironmentalPolicies. (Jouni Paavola).7. What to Do with Inconsistent, Non-Welfaristic and UndevelopedPreferences? (Olof Johansson-Stenman).8. Awkward Choices: Economics and Nature Conservation. (NickHanley and Jason Shogren).Part IV: Ethical Dimensions of Policy Consequences.9. All Policy Instruments Require A Moral Choice as to WhoseInterests Count. (Allan Schmid).10. Efficient or Fair: Ethical Paradoxes in EnvironmentalPolicy. (Arild Vatn).11. Trading with the Enemy: Examining North-South Perspectivesin the Climate Change Debate. (Bhaskar Vira).12. Social Costs and Sustainability. (Martin O'Connor).Part V: Ethics in Aaction: Emperical Analysis.13. Empirical Signs of Ethical Concern in Economic Valuation ofthe Environment. (Clive Spash).14. Motivating Existence Values: The Many and Varied Sources ofthe Stated WTP for Endangered Species. (Andreas Kontoleon andTimothy Swanson).15. Environmental and Ethical Dimensions of the Provision of aBasic Need: Water and Sanitation Services in East Africa. (NickJohnstone , John Thompson , Munguti Katui-Katua , Mark MujwajuziJames Tumwine , Elizabeth Wood , and Ina Porras).Part VI: Conclusions.16. Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy. (Daniel W.Bromley and Jouni Paavola).Index.