At 09:26 AM 8/2/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Can anyone on the list supply me with some published critiques of
>utilitarian ethics as a basis for environmental ethics. I'm pretty sure
>Eugene Hargrove and others have done some work on this, but the references
>to not come to mind this morning. I have a student using cost/benefit
>analysis on prescribed burns and he wants to use utilitarian theory as the
>analytical tool. He is up on the basics, but needs some critiques for this
>methods section. Any help will be appreciated.
>
Try Mark Sagoff's "The economy of the Earth" p100-108. Eg "It is not just
what the person wants but what he or she thinks that counts."
Chris
Chris Hope, Judge Institute of Management Studies,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK.
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