"Beasts Versus the Biosphere?"
Mary Midgley explores if there is a necessary clash between concern for animals and concern for the environment as a whole.
Mary Midgley explores if there is a necessary clash between concern for animals and concern for the environment as a whole.
John M. Francis examines the dilemma that arises from the British application of “voluntary principle” legislation to long-term land management strategies in support of nature conservation.
Brian K. Steverson argues against James Sterba’s attempt to show that anthropocentrists and nonanthropocentrists would accept the exact same principles of environmental justice.
Michael Mason argues that Habermasian moral theory reveals a key tension between, on the one hand, an ethical commitment to wilderness preservation informed by deep ecological and bioregional principles that is oriented to a naturalistic value order and, on the other, the procedural norms of democratic participation.
David Schmidtz argues that “the philosophies of both conservation and preservationism can fail by their own lights, since trying to put their respective principles of conservationism or preservationism into institutional practice can have results that are the opposite of what the respective philosophies tell us we ought to be trying to achieve.”
Holmes Rolston III discusses nature and development in an invited response to other articles in this issue of Environmental Values.
This study empirically assesses the extent to which intrinsic value theories of nature are accepted and acknowledged outside the realm of academic environmental ethics.
This article examines if the material and non-material values of nature can be reconciled and looks at the ecosystem services and the ‘elements of nature’ frameworks.
Petra Tjitske Kalshoven combines ethnographic studies with ornithological testimonies to present the re-creation and reenactment of the extinct great auk, or garefowl. The author aims to achieve contiguity with lost species through expressions and shaping of human perceptions and imaginations of past, and eventually future, environmental disasters.
Looking at Leanne Allison and Jeremy Mendes’s interactive documentary Bear 71 (2012), Katey Castellano shows how the environmental humanities can be employed to rearticulate scientific data as innovative multispecies stories.