ABSTRACT
If, as we have consistently argued, environmental concerns need to be placed at the centre of our judgements (both ethically and politically) then we are faced with a pressing practical problem of how to value environmental entities in decisionmaking processes. The issues we raised in Chapters 1 and 2 concerning our relations with the natural world need to be represented in decision-making procedures, otherwise we are bound to misrepresent and distort the human condition and its relationship with the non-human world. Two interrelated issues form the core of this chapter.
