Description: The state of the environment is now widely acknowledged as a serious cause for concern. Valuing Nature? argues that the prevailing economic attitude to the environment, which values it as a consumer good, contributes to its destruction. This book brings together philosophers, economists and a sociologist to provide a new approach to environmental policy. Topics include: a critique of neo-classical economic thought on the environment; environmental economics, institutions and policy; the effect of turning to contingent valuation surveys and cost benefit analysis for environmental decisions; and alternative valuation methods. Contributors include Geoffrey Hodgson, Clive Spash, Micheal Jacobs, Brian Hynne, John O'Neil.
-- Raised the question of how ethical values can be brought into public policy without being reduced to economic considerations
-- Challenges the present orthodoxy in environmental policy-making

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