Environmental values/ (Record no. 146466)
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| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 179.1 |
| Item number | D'N/E |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | D'Neill, John |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Environmental values/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | John D'Neill |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2008. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 233 p. |
| Other physical details | PB |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Chapter 1 Values and the environment<br/>Environments and values<br/>Living from the world<br/>Living in the world<br/>Living with the world<br/>Addressing value conflicts<br/>Value conflicts<br/>The distribution of goods and harms<br/>Addressing conflicts<br/>Part One Utilitarian approaches to environmental decision making<br/>Chapter 2 Human well-being and the natural world<br/>Introduction<br/>Welfare: hedonism, preferences and objective lists<br/>The hedonistic account of well-being<br/>Bentham and the felicific calculus<br/>John Stuart Mill<br/>Preference utilitarianism<br/>Objectivist accounts of welfare<br/>Whose well-being counts?<br/>Making comparisons: utilitarianism, economics and efficiency<br/>Chapter 3 Consequentialism and its critics<br/>Introduction<br/>Consequentialism pennits too much<br/>What is the problem with consequentialism? The moral<br/>standing of individuals<br/>Rights, conflicts and community<br/>Consequentialism demands too much<br/>What is the problem with consequentialism? Agent-based<br/>restrictions on action<br/>Virtues and environmental concern<br/>Consequentialist responses<br/>Indirect utilitarianism<br/>Extend the account of the good<br/>Ethical pluralism and the limits of theory<br/>Chapter 4 Equality, justice and environment<br/>Utilitarianism and distribution<br/>Equality in moral standing<br/>Indirect utilitarian arguments for distributive equality<br/>Economics, efficiency and equality<br/>Willingness to pay<br/>The Kaldor-Hicks compensation test<br/>Discounting the future<br/>Egalitarian ethics<br/>Consequentialism without maximisation<br/>The priority view<br/>Telic egalitarianism<br/>Deontological responses<br/>Community, character and equality<br/>Equality of what?<br/>Chapter 5 Value pluralism, value commensurability and environmental<br/>choice<br/>Value monism<br/>Value pluralism<br/>Trading-off values<br/>Constitutive incommensurabilities<br/>Value pluralism, consequentialism, and the alternatives<br/>Structural pluralism<br/>Choice without commensurability<br/>What can we expect from a theory of rational choice?<br/>Part Two A new environmental ethic?<br/>Chapter 6 The moral considerability of the non-human world<br/>New ethics for old?<br/>Moral considerability<br/>Extending the boundaries of moral considerability<br/>New theories for old?<br/>Chapter 7 Environment, meta-ethics and intrinsic value<br/>Meta-ethics and nonnative ethics<br/>Intrinsic value<br/>Is the rejection of meta-ethical realism compatible with an<br/>environmental ethic?<br/>Objective value and the flourishing of living things<br/>Environmental ethics tlirough thick and thin<br/>Chapter 8 Nature and the natural<br/>Valuing the 'natural'<br/>The complexity of 'nature'<br/>Some distinctions<br/>Natural and artificial<br/>Natural and cultural<br/>Nature as wilderness<br/>The value of natural things<br/>Nature conservation<br/>A paradox?<br/>On restoring the value of nature<br/>Restitutive ecology<br/>History, narrative and environmental goods<br/>Part Three The narratives of nature<br/>Chapter 9 Nature and narrative<br/>Three walks<br/>History and processes as sources of value<br/>Going back to nature?<br/>Old worlds and new<br/>Narrative and nature<br/>Chapter 10 Biodiversity: biology as biography<br/>The itemising approach to environmental values<br/>The nature of biodiversity - conceptual clarifications<br/>The attractions of itemisation<br/>Biodiversity and environmental sustainability<br/>Time, history and biodiversity<br/>The dangers of moral trumps<br/>Chapter 11 Sustainability and human well-being<br/>Sustainability: of what, for whom and why?<br/>Economic accounts of sustainability<br/>Sustainability: weak and strong<br/>Human well-being and substitutability<br/>From preferences to needs<br/>Narrative, human well-being and sustainability<br/>Sustainability without capital<br/>Chapter 12 Public decisions and environmental goods<br/>Procedural rationality and deliberative institutions<br/>Decisions in context<br/>Responsibility and character<br/>What makes for good decisions? |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 28/08/2016 | 179.1 D'N/E | P01094 | 11/11/2024 | 11/11/2024 | General Books |