The Delicate Balance: Decision-making, Rights, and Nature

by Jay Schulkin

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In this book on nature and social thought, the author seeks to understand decision-making and its legitimation in our social world against the background of an evolving sensibility about nature. Given the finite scope of our natural resources, and our infinite capacity as decision-makers to use nature, we are compelled to formulate some of the issues that underlie our transactions with nature. This will be useful for students and scholars in philosophy and psychology departments, decision and management sciences, business and law schools, environmentalists and policymakers. Contents: Consequences of Uncertainty; Moral Perspective; Inquiry and the Origins of Human Rights; Equity Decisions; Economic Development and Environmental Prudence; Changing Landscapes; Decisions, Values and Progress.
  • ISBN10 0761804323
  • ISBN13 9780761804321
  • Publish Date 10 December 1996 (first published 27 September 1996)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University Press of America
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 192
  • Language English