 Éthique et évalaution monétaire de l'environnement: la nature est-elle soluble dans l'utilité ?Post-Print from HAL Abstract: The nature disappears because it has no economic value ", here is the hypothesis that underlies the recent profusion of state commissions and scientific works on the monetary evaluation of environmental goods. Put in these terms, the interrogation is not to know if the nature has an economic value or not, but to measure this one. The scientific questions linked to these methods are therefore usually defined as technical issues, when their main problem may be philosophical, related to the type of moral link that exists between humans and their environment. The analysis of the theoretical foundations of the contingent valuation method indeed shows that to value environmental goods the individuals have to be in capacity to substitute a state of the environment for their monetary income. They therefore cannot have moral links with these goods that could prevent possibilities of substitution. This hypothesis is however contested by numerous works on environmental ethics that finally raise the question of the signification of the numbers usually interpreted as monetary values of environmental goods. Keywords: Monetary valuation of the environnement; Contingent valuation; Utilitarism; Welfare economics; Environmental Ethics; History of economic thought; évaluation monétaire de l'environnement; évaluation contingente; utilitarisme; économie du bien être; éthique de l'environnement; histoire de la pensée économique (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in VertigO : La revue électronique en sciences de l'environnement, 2010, 10 (2), pp.en ligne There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00523479 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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