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2004.03.21

Comparison of World Views

Cornucopian

• optimistic technologist
• very weak sustainability
• individual and property rights

Accommodating - industrial ecology

• use efficient technologies and market incentives
• equity for all
• instrumental value in nature, utilitarianism
• all capital is interconvertable, weak sustainability

Communalist - committed environmentalist

• preserve resources
• green economy
• collective interests take precedence over individual human interests
• strong sustainability

Deep ecology

• preservationist
• severely limit resource take
• broader definition of rights (animal, plant and earth system)
• very strong sustainability

References:

Turner et al. 1993

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