The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making: Sustainability, Democracy and Normative Argument in Policy and Law.

See the note “Ecology and economics“ in www.perc.org

A.N. James, et al., “Balancing the earth’s accounts”, Nature, 1999: 323-324.

Environmental education should introduce a set of concepts that stem not somuch from abstract philosophical principles but which seems to emerge from the contemporary biology and form subjects abilities and strategies to create meaning within highly complex and contradictory situation of modern society.

Good, justice, truth have long been accepted as outstanding values, though noone seems to be able to agree on what is just, what is good and what is fair.

Ernst Mayr, This is Biology. The Science of the Living World, 1997, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., p. 39.