"Getting Behind Environmental Ethics"
The article explores the possibilities of a new ethic that incorporates the phenomenon of environmental crisis and aims at changing people’s outlooks and behaviour.
The article explores the possibilities of a new ethic that incorporates the phenomenon of environmental crisis and aims at changing people’s outlooks and behaviour.
Michael Everett examines how environmental movements develop and how they deal with economic counterforces and motivate political actors to pass effective environmental regulations.
Jan Oosthoek tells in this book the story of how 20th century foresters devised ways to successfully reforest the poor Scottish uplands.
This book offers a history of the conservation movement’s origins and provides a context for understanding contemporary enviromental problems and possible solutions.
Markus J. Peterson and Tarla Rai Peterson make an argument for the synergy between deep, feminist, and scientific ecology towards improving environmental policy.
A collection of essays examining the tortured environmental history of Pittsburgh, a region blessed with an abundance of natural resources as well as a history of intensive industrial development.
In this essay (updated in 2019), Bron Taylor offers background about the events that gave rise to the Earth First! movement and reviews some of the watershed moments in its history, including its print publications.
Howie Wolke and Dave Foreman write a memo to “the hardcore,” looking for a core group of people to run the new organization. They attach a draft platform and suggest a newsletter titled Nature More: The Newsletter of EARTH FIRST.
Brian Baxter makes an argument in favour of person-centricism over ecocentricism.
Robert Elliot discusses anthropocentric ethics, concluding with a subjectivist account of intrinsic value.