环境哲学与历史性转变

所谓环境哲学，就是从哲学角度研究环境与发展这一矛盾的运动规律，并用以指导环境工作实践的一门科学。从哲学角度看，推行历史性转变首在转变那些不适应客观变化的观念、经验和制度，以实践作为检验真理的唯一标准，对受计划经济体制影响的理念和经验进行反思，走出误区，以利转变。环境与经济的“并重”和“同步”是促进环境与发展矛盾转化的根本途径，“综合”是用改革的方法解决发展中的环境问题，是实现前两个转变的基本保障。总之，实施“三个转变”就是发挥人的主观能动作用，积极创造条件，促使环境与发展的矛盾由“两难”向“双赢”转化，将“以牺牲环境换取经济增长”转变为“以保护环境，优化经济增长”，真正走上生产发展、生活富裕、生态良好的文明发展道路。     

浙江省"五水共治"管理机制的经验与启示

国内传统治水管理机制存在较多弊端,浙江省以"五水共治"为契机建章立制,将创新性的理念转化为实践,以科学的治水方式、有效的治水模式、多样的治水形式为立足点,建立了组织领导、规划推进、责任落实、督查考核、区域联动、经费保障和全民共治等特色管理机制,取得了明显的成效,但是"五水共治"现行的管理机制仍有不少欠缺之处,需要不断完善治水管理机制,形成"政府统领、企业施治、市场驱动、公众参与"的水环境保护新机制.     

生态哲学的功能与生态素质的提升

生态素质作为以生态世界观和生态方法论为核心、以生态价值观和生态伦理观为观照、以生态思维方式和生态行为规范为主要内容的人的内化物,它必然体现当今乃至未来人类素质的主体内容和发展的主导趋势。在新的历史条件下,生态哲学的研究应全面强化在有效提升人的生态素质方面的独特功能。     

Voting Systems for Environmental Decisions

Voting systems aggregate preferences efficiently and are often used for deciding conservation priorities. Desirable characteristics of voting systems include transitivity, completeness, and Pareto optimality, among others. Voting systems that are common and potentially useful for environmental decision making include simple majority, approval, and preferential voting. Unfortunately, no voting system can guarantee an outcome, while also satisfying a range of very reasonable performance criteria. Furthermore, voting methods may be manipulated by decision makers and strategic voters if they have knowledge of the voting patterns and alliances of others in the voting populations. The difficult properties of voting systems arise in routine decision making when there are multiple criteria and management alternatives. Because each method has flaws, we do not endorse one method. Instead, we urge organizers to be transparent about the properties of proposed voting systems and to offer participants the opportunity to approve the voting system as part of the ground rules for operation of a group. Sistemas de Votación para Decisiones Ambientales     

可持续发展：西部大开发的基本理念

本文从西部大开发的深远意义出发 ,探讨西部大开发的约束条件 ,进而讨论可持续发展是西部大开发的基本理念 ,并以可持续发展为指导原则提出建议。     

论中国城市灾害科学的现状研究及新构想

城市是一个国家和地区的经济、政治、文化中心,是一个综合了社会、心理、地理、工程、功能、生态等学科在内的复杂系统工程,是人双重属性(自然与社会)的一个载体。面对现状及21世纪我国城市建设的挑战,本文认为不仅应研究优美的景观、平衡的生态、高效的功能及无障碍特性,还必须提高一个现代化城市抗御灾害的综合能力。“国际减灾十年”全球统一行动应同环境治理一样,成为衡量城市现代化的标志。     

Education for Sustainable Development: The Johannesburg Summit and Beyond

The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), held in Johannesburg during 26 August and 4 September 2002, was a truly remarkable event, not least because it identified and committed the world community to what has to be done to realise Agenda 21 objectives. Discussion begins with the "means of implementation" of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPI). Education for, and raising awareness of, sustainable development are the key commitments in the "means of implementation". The issues central to these commitments are discussed. The crucial role of moral philosophy in education for sustainable development is then discussed. Defining the "problem" as lack of progress (in fact negative progress between Rio and Johannesburg) towards global sustainable development, a cause–effect relationship of the "problem" is developed based on a systematic and logical analysis. It shows that the "cause" is West's profoundly materialistic, environment-degrading and exploitative attitude and activities to satisfy grossly unsustainable, hedonistic and insatiably avaricious Western life-styles – life-styles that are held up by the West as "ideal" fruits of economic "development" to be aspired by all. The "effects" are pollution of air, water and soil; mounting loss of biodiversity, ecosystems and species; relentlessly widening north–south divide, etc. It is argued that while science and technology can address some of the "effects", they cannot address the "cause". Only moral philosophy can by fundamentally re-orienting moral values genuinely to respect nature and the environment. Based on sound and tested principles of Educational Psychology, a proposal is then made for including moral philosophy in the formal curricula (content and pedagogy) of primary, secondary and higher education for instilling in children and young people genuinely environment-respecting moral values. To this end a generic syllabus for the secondary level is proposed. Finally, it is argued that if the scientific community really believes that science or technology alone can radically change the pervasive environment-degrading moral values to those that genuinely respect the environment, thus paving the way to real global sustainability, then it must demonstrate how this could be done and explain why, despite their abundant science and technology, the developed nations are the biggest polluters and consumers with grossly unsustainable life-styles. Certainly, examples would be much more convincing than rhetoric or tired old clichés about how science and technology alone could deliver global sustainable development.     

The Role of Science in Public Policy: Higher Reason,or Reason for Hire?

The traditional vision of the role science should play in policy making is of a two stage process of scientists first finding out the facts, and then policy makers making a decision about what to do about them. We argue that this two stage process is a fiction and that a distinction must be drawn between pure science and science in the service of public policy. When science is transferred into the policy realm, its claims to truth get undermined because we must abandon the open-ended nature of scientific inquiry. When we move from the sphere of science to the sphere of policy, we pick an arbitrary point in the open-ended scientific process, and ask our experts to give us the answer. The choice of the endpoint, however, must always be arbitrary and determined by non-scientific factors. Thus, the two stages in the model of first finding the facts, and then making a decision about what to do, cannot be clearly separated. The second stage clearly affects the first. This conclusion will have implications about existing scientific policy institutions. For example, we advocate that the environmental assessment process be radically overhauled, or perhaps even let go. It will be our position that ultimately a better model for the involvement of scientists in public policy debates is that of being participants in particular interest groups (“hired guns”), rather than as supposedly unbiased consultants to decision-makers.     

论价值哲学和环境哲学视角中的环境价值

为了加深对环境价值的认识和促使环境资源核算逐渐逼近人们的期望值,本文首先从环境哲学的视角讨论了环境价值的哲学含义然后又从环境哲学的视角对环境价值的复杂性和多样性作了初步的评价讨论结果表明,目前人们对环境资源的价值内涵的把握虽然有了质的升华．但仍然是不彻底的;因而必须对环境价值进行不懈的探索.     

环境风险评估的技术本质

指明环境风险评估属于工程科学领域中的一门社会技术,从工程科学角度阐释了环境风险评估本质属性,即包括主体和客体、目的和标准、内容和方法以及应遵循的几项基本原则。研究表明,解析环境风险评估技术本质对于推动工程科学的社会技术研究具有学理与现实层面的示范作用。