Valuing Nature: Economic Value, Conservation Values and Sustainable Development

Religion, Values and Sustainable Development

Valuing Nature

Nature conservation work has come a long way in just over a century. In the 19th century, species were grouped into useful and harmful ones. Protection, which was beginning to be enshrined in laws and international treaties, was only extended to the useful species. Nuisances such as lions and bears were unflinchingly earmarked for destruction. Since the foundation of the International Union for...

Metro Nature, Environmental Health, and Economic Value

BACKGROUND Nearly 40 years of research provides an extensive body of evidence about human health, well-being, and improved function benefits associated with experiences of nearby nature in cities. OBJECTIVES We demonstrate the numerous opportunities for future research efforts that link metro nature, human health and well-being outcomes, and economic values. METHODS We reviewed the literatu...

Sustainable Development and the Reinvention of Nature

This paper explores the contradictions inherent in what has become the buzzword of the 1990’s: sustainable development. I argue that despite claims of a paradigm shift, the sustainable development paradigm is based on an economistic, not ecological rationality. Discourses of sustainable development embody a view of nature specified by modern economic thought. One consequence of this discourse i...

Valuing teaching and teaching values.

CORRESPONDENCE TO: Neil Pickering Bioethics Centre, Te Pokapu Matatika Koiora, Division of Health Sciences, PO Box 913, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand [email protected] A quick review of some relevant medical codes in New Zealand reveals that there is a strong belief that doctors have a duty to engage in passing on the knowledge and practice of medicine to the next generation of doctors. Fo...