ABSTRACT
How do we value nature? How do we, and how should we, express our sense of the worth and practical importance of our natural environment, and the significance of our relations with other living things? How do we include such values within the processes of social decision-making? How, in particular, do we integrate them with the economic considerations which feature so prominently in those processes? Can the demands of that integration help us to understand environment and economics better? And do they have a wider relevance to policy-to the development of a democracy which might attend more intelligently to issues of value in general?
