Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Environmental value and the scope of economics -- THE ENVIRONMENTAL 'VALUATION' CONTROVERSY: OBSERVATIONS ON ITS RECENT HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE -- VALUES AND PREFERENCES IN NEO-CLASSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS -- ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND THE TRANSCENDENCE OF UTILITARIANISM -- RATIONALITY AND SOCIAL NORMS -- VALUE PLURALISM, INCOMMENSURABILITY AND INSTITUTIONS -- PRICING THE COUNTRYSIDE: THE EXAMPLE OF TIR CYMEN -- THE RELATIONS BETWEEN PRESERVATION VALUE AND EXISTENCE VALUE -- SUBSTITUTABILITY: OR, WHY STRONG SUSTAINABILITY IS WEAK AND ABSURDLY STRONG SUSTAINABILITY IS NOT ABSURD -- METHODOLOGY AND INSTITUTIONS: VALUE AS SEEN FROM THE RISK FIELD -- EXISTENCE VALUE, MORAL COMMITMENTS AND IN-KIND VALUATION -- ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT WITHOUT ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION? -- MULTI-CRITERIA MAPPING: MITIGATING THE PROBLEMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION? -- ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION, DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC DECISION-MAKING INSTITUTIONS -- ENVIRONMENT AND CREATIVE VALUE -- Bibliography -- Index.