Robin, Libby, "Radical Ecology and Conservation Science: An Australian Perspective"
Histories of environmentalism in Australia often overlook the 1950s, an era when scientific ecology dominated environmental activism…
Histories of environmentalism in Australia often overlook the 1950s, an era when scientific ecology dominated environmental activism…
McQuaid advances the view that NASA consistently misread the importance of the most popular science-based political movement of the late twentieth century.
The author recognizes techniques of ideological distortion (i.e., mixing knowledge with beliefs and preferences) in the argumentation of economist Bjørn Lomborg.
The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of these authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them.
Bryan Norton differs between two types of sustainability definitions, ‘social scientific’ and ‘ecological’ ones, in order to define our moral obligation to act sustainably.
Nalini Nadkarni explores the rich, vital world found in the tops of trees and communicates what she finds to non-scientists.
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.
Callicott supposes that the environmental turn in the humanities, grounded in ecology and evolutionary biology, foreshadows an emerging NeoPresocratic revival in twenty-first century philosophy.
The Global Environments Summer Academy (GESA) is designed to broaden and deepen the knowledge, networking, and communication skills of postgraduate students, professionals, and activists who are concerned about human dimensions of environmental challenges.
In this 1995 annual report, the Fund for Wild Nature focuses on current anti-environmental politics and the skirting of environmental laws. The purpose of the fund, its funding guidelines, areas of support, and grant projects are laid out. Their intent is to foster connections among diverse groups with the underlying philosophy of Deep Ecology.