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| List of Figures | |
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| Aknowledgements | |
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| Values and the environment | |
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| Environments and values | |
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| Living from the world | |
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| Living in the world | |
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| Living with the world | |
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| Addressing value conflicts | |
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| Value conflicts | |
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| The distribution of goods and harms | |
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| Addressing conflicts | |
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| Utilitarian approaches to environmental decision making | |
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| Human well-being and the natural world | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Welfare: hedonism, preferences and objective lists | |
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| The hedonistic account of well-being | |
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| Bentham and the felicific calculus | |
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| John Stuart Mill | |
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| Preference utilitarianism | |
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| Objectivist accounts of welfare | |
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| Whose well-being counts? | |
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| Making comparisons: utilitarianism, economics and efficiency | |
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| Consequentialism and its critics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Consequentialism permits too much | |
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| What is the problem with consequentialism? The moral standing of individuals | |
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| Rights, conflicts and community | |
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| Consequentialism demands too much | |
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| What is the problem with consequentialism? Agent-based restrictions on action | |
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| Virtues and environmental concern | |
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| Consequentialist responses | |
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| Indirect utilitarianism | |
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| Extend the account of the good | |
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| Ethical pluralism and the limits of theory | |
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| Equality, justice and environment | |
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| Utilitarianism and distribution | |
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| Equality in moral standing | |
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| Indirect utilitarian arguments for distributive equality | |
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| Economics, efficiency and equality | |
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| Willingness to pay | |
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| The Kaldor-Hicks compensation test | |
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| Discounting the future | |
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| Egalitarian ethics | |
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| Consequentialism without maximisation | |
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| The priority view | |
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| Telic egalitarianism | |
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| Deontological responses | |
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| Community, character and equality | |
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| Equality of what? | |
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| Value pluralism, value commensurability and environmental choice | |
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| Value monism | |
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| Value pluralism | |
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| Trading-off values | |
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| Constitutive incommensurabilities | |
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| Value pluralism, consequentialism, and the alternatives | |
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| Structural pluralism | |
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| Choice without commensurability | |
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| What can we expect from a theory of rational choice? | |
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| A new environmental ethic? | |
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| The moral considerability of the non-human world | |
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| New ethics for old? | |
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| Moral considerability | |
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| Extending the boundaries of moral considerability | |
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| New theories for old? | |
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| Environment, meta-ethics and intrinsic value | |
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| Meta-ethics and normative ethics | |
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| Intrinsic value | |
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| Is the rejection of meta-ethical realism compatible with an environmental ethic? | |
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| Objective value and the flourishing of living things | |
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| Environmental ethics through thick and thin | |
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| Nature and the natural | |
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| Valuing the 'natural' | |
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| The complexity of 'nature' | |
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| Some distinctions | |
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| Natural and artificial | |
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| Natural and cultural | |
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| Nature as wilderness | |
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| The value of natural things | |
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| Nature conservation | |
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| A paradox? | |
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| On restoring the value of nature | |
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| Restitutive ecology | |
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| History, narrative and environmental goods | |
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| The narratives of nature | |
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| Nature and narrative | |
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| Three walks | |
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| History and processes as sources of value | |
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| Going back to nature? | |
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| Old worlds and new | |
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| Narrative and nature | |
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| Biodiversity: biology as biography | |
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| The itemising approach to environmental values | |
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| The nature of biodiversity - conceptual clarifications | |
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| The attractions of itemisation | |
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| Biodiversity and environmental sustainability | |
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| Time, history and biodiversity | |
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| The dangers of moral trumps | |
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| Sustainability and human well-being | |
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| Sustainability: of what, for whom and why? | |
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| Economic accounts of sustainability | |
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| Sustainability: weak and strong | |
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| Human well-being and subsistutability | |
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| From preferences to needs | |
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| Narrative, human well-being and sustainability | |
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| Sustainability without capital | |
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| Public decisions and environmental goods | |
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| Procedural rationality and deliberative institutions | |
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| Decisions in context | |
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| Responsibility and character | |
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| What makes for good decisions? | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |