"Human Rights in an Ecological Era"
William Aiken examines the tradition of human rights and their role in our currently increasing environmental awareness.
William Aiken examines the tradition of human rights and their role in our currently increasing environmental awareness.
Christopher Williams discusses the personal, social and cash costs of environmental victimization, using psycho-social literature and brief case studies of intellectual disability, road transport, and cross-border pollution.
Robyn Eckersley discusses the concepts of “human racism” and ecocentricm in relation to Tony Lynch and David Wells’ argument that any attempt to develop a non-anthropocentric morality must invariably slide back to either anthropocentrism (either weak or strong) or a highly repugnant misanthropy in cases of direct conflict between the survival needs of humans and nonhuman species.
Robin Attfield refutes the neo-Malthusian paradigm put forward by Holmes Rolston, arguing that authentic development will seldom conflict with nature conservation.
Laura Westra argues that even if we could elicit a truly informed and “free” choice, the “Contingent Valuation” method would remain flawed.
Robert L. Chapman discusses how one might set moral boundaries relating to immigration and environment.
Oluf Langhelle discusses expansion of the Rawlsian framework of global justice in relation to sustainable development.
This article examines allegedly Humean solutions by J. Baird Callicott to the is/ought dichotomy and the land ethic’s summary moral precept, concluding that neither the solution nor the argument is Humean or cogent.
J. Baird Callicott explains how the concept of intrinsic value from environmental ethics has contributed to reshaping discourses of environmental activism and policy.
This essay argues that reproductive liberty should not be considered a fundamental human right, or certainly not an indefeasible right, but that it should, instead, be strictly regulated by a global agreement designed to reduce population to a sustainable level.