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Wetland Conservation: Economics and Ethics

In: Economics, Growth and Sustainable Environments

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  • R. Kerry Turner

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Richard Lecomber (1975, 1978) was one of a number of writers who have questioned the unidimensional economic efficiency approach to welfare measurement and economic growth so characteristic of the conventional (essentially neoclassical) economic doctrine. He supported the argument that welfare is a multidimensional concept which encompasses, among other variables, per capita gross domestic product, distributional equity and environmental quality. Social welfare (economic plus non-economic welfare) is, in principle, better represented by a vector profile and not a scalar. Nevertheless, in the absence of an unambiguous measure for welfare, the integration of environmental criteria (often unpriced) into the conventional planning and decision-making processes has proved to be a somewhat intractable politico-economic problem.

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  • R. Kerry Turner, 1988. "Wetland Conservation: Economics and Ethics," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: David Collard & David Pearce & David Ulph (ed.), Economics, Growth and Sustainable Environments, chapter 9, pages 121-159, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-19014-0_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19014-0_9
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    1. M G Reed & O Slaymaker, 1993. "Ethics and Sustainability: A Preliminary Perspective," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 25(5), pages 723-739, May.
    2. Spash, Clive L., 1992. "The rights and wrongs of intergenerational externalities," MPRA Paper 39253, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Turner, R. Kerry & van den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. & Soderqvist, Tore & Barendregt, Aat & van der Straaten, Jan & Maltby, Edward & van Ierland, Ekko C., 2000. "Ecological-economic analysis of wetlands: scientific integration for management and policy," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 35(1), pages 7-23, October.
    4. Eriksson, Ralf, 2005. "On the ethics of environmental economics as seen from textbooks," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 52(4), pages 421-435, March.
    5. Spash, Clive L., 2000. "Ecosystems, contingent valuation and ethics: the case of wetland re-creation," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 34(2), pages 195-215, August.
    6. Spash, Clive L., 1993. "Future harm and current obligations: the case of global warming," MPRA Paper 39626, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    7. YUNG-JAAN Lee, 1999. "Sustainable wetland management strategies under uncertainties," Environment Systems and Decisions, Springer, vol. 19(1), pages 67-79, March.
    8. Oellermann, R. G. & Darroch, M. A. G., 1994. "Estimating Wetland Preservation Values: A Wakkerstroom Case Study," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 33(4), December.
    9. R.K. Turner & J.C.J.M. van den Bergh & A. Barendregt & E. Maltby, 1998. "Ecological-Economic Analysis of Wetlands," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 98-050/3, Tinbergen Institute.

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