"Community and Life-Chances: Risk Movements in the United States and Germany"
Jost Halfmann illustrates the differences between images of risk by comparing the American and German anti-nuclear movements.
Jost Halfmann illustrates the differences between images of risk by comparing the American and German anti-nuclear movements.
Michael Lockwood synthesizes insights from philosophy, psychology, and economics towards an understanding of how humans value nature.
Ronan Palmer discusses philosophical aspects of environmental values.
The essay examines local resistance to the New Deal rural electrification program in the United States before World War II as a crucial aspect of socio-technical change.
This essay explores three case studies that illustrate the exemplary use of economic analysis in environmental decision-making.
This article attempts to illuminate this question of what the nature of envrionmental problems is by exploring the relationship between environmental ethics, environmental problems and their solution.
In this paper Tee Rogers-Hayden and John R. Campbell use the case of New Zealand’s Royal Commission on Genetic Modification to explore the application of science discourses as used by environmental groups.
In his essay, Lewis P. Hinchman argues that environmental theorists, seeking the origin of Western exploitative attitudes toward nature, who have directed their attacks against “humanism” are wrong. Instead, humanism has much closer affinities to environmentalism than the latter’s advocates believe.
This paper offers a critical examination of efforts to use Heidegger’s thought to illuminate deep ecology.
In this essay, Eric Reitan analyzes the claims of the “wise-use” movement, its implications for private property rights and the extent to which these rights should influence public policy decisions.