"Sustainability, Human Welfare and Ecosystem Health"
Bryan Norton differs between two types of sustainability definitions, ‘social scientific’ and ‘ecological’ ones, in order to define our moral obligation to act sustainably.
Bryan Norton differs between two types of sustainability definitions, ‘social scientific’ and ‘ecological’ ones, in order to define our moral obligation to act sustainably.
Mary Midgley explores if there is a necessary clash between concern for animals and concern for the environment as a whole.
Should environmental philosophers—or practical conservationists—focus their attentions on particular living creatures, or on the community of which they, and we, are part?
Michael Everett examines how environmental movements develop and how they deal with economic counterforces and motivate political actors to pass effective environmental regulations.
Patrick Murphy argues for a new conception of human agency based on culturopoeia and an application of an ecofeminist dialogic method for analysing human-nature relationships.
Martinez-Alier discusses issues relating to the concept of “sustainable development” as used by the Brundtland Commission.
Chris Rose discusses Greenpeace UK in relation to public awareness of environmental problems.
Guy Claxton discusses the role of self-transformation methodologies, associated with spiritual traditions such as Buddhism, towards changing dysfunctional habits of consumption.
Avner De-Shalit discusses how the neglect of environmental philosophy in historical discourse of the environmental movement mistakenly identify “political ecology” with right-wing ideologies.
Annie L. Booth discusses environmental spirituality.