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In the debate over environmental policy there are two broad approaches: one which emphasises individual choice and the other which claims the need to over-ride the individual due to immanent disaster and the scientific complexity of environmental problems. Political dominance of the concept of free market democracy and the unattractiveness of dictatorship has placed the rhetoric of the former approach at the forefront in recent years. The result is to describe human relations with the environment in terms which require detailed description of individual consequences in material terms. This then gives science the authoritative role of defining future scenarios and linking them to current actions.
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Spash, C.L. (1998). Investigating Individual Motives for Environmental Action: Lexicographic Preferences, Beliefs and Attitudes. In: Lemons, J., Westra, L., Goodland, R. (eds) Ecological Sustainability and Integrity: Concepts and Approaches. Environmental Science and Technology Library, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1337-5_4
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