THE FOUNDATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION-MAKING

An account of judgement is developed, which is used to show that delib erative procedures can provide a substantially different input to envi ronmental decision-making from that afforded by coat-benefit analysis and, specifically, by the method of contingent valuation. It is argued that environmental concern typically invokes values, which are in tur n formed and expressed through the exercise of judgement - itself the outcome of a deliberative rather than a calculative process. It is con cluded that environmental concern is more effectively articulated thro ugh deliberative procedures than through the method of cost-benefit an alysis.