On Intrinsic Value and Environmental Ethics

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: The Roots of Moral Austerity in Environmental Policy Discourse 1
6. Part I. Moral Principles and Environmental Policy: Basic Issues and Dilemmas
7. Issue 1: Science as a Substitute for Moral Principle? Science as a Substitute for Moral Principle 25
8. Science Is No Substitute for Moral Principle 30
9. Issue 2: Environmental Justice without Social Justice? Why Environmental Thought and Action Must Include Considerations of Social Justice 37
10. Environmental Justice: Private Preference or Public Necessity? 43
11. Issue 3: Nature Has Only an Instrumental Value Sustainability: Descriptive or Performative? 51
12. Are Environmental Values All Instrumental? 62
13. Issue 4: Intrinsic Value Implies No Use and a Threat to Democratic Governance A Practical Concept of Nature’s Intrinsic Value 72
14. On Intrinsic Value and Environmental Ethics 79
15. Part II. Case Studies in Sustainable Environmental Policy and Law
16. Introduction 89
17. The Subnational Role in Sustainable Development: Lessons from American States and Canadian Provinces 91
18. Sustainable Development and Natural Hazards Mitigation 115
19. Sustainable Governance 131
20. Sustainability in the United States: Legal Tools and Initiatives 145
21. Sustainable Development and the Use of Public Lands 161
22. The Impact of Political Institutions on Preservation of U.S. and Canadian National Parks 176
23. Global Environmental Accountability: The Missing Link in the Pursuit of Sustainable Development? 194
24. Part III. Moral Principles and Sustainable Environmental Policy: An Analysis of Ends and Means
25. Introduction 209
26. Issue 1: Science and Sustainability Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and Values 212
27. Saving All the Parts: Science and Sustainability 219
28. Discussion 227
29. Issue 2: Environmental Policy, Sustainability, and Social Justice Why Environmental Public Policy Analysis Must Include Explicit Normative Considerations: Reflections on Seven Illustrations 236
30. Sustainability and Environmental Justice: A Necessary Connection 247
31. Discussion 254
32. Issue 3: A Sustainable Environment as an Instrumental Value? The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Environment 262
33. Why Not Foxy Hedgehogs? 276
34. Discussion 284
35. Issue 4: A Sustainable Environment as an Intrinsic Value? Sustainability: Restricting the Policy Debate 291
36. Comments on Sustainability 301
37. Discussion 307
38. Conclusion: Democratic Competence, Accountability, and Education in the Twenty-first Century 314
39. Notes 341
40. References 351
41. Contributors 375
42. Index 377