"Conservation and Individual Worth"
Gill Aitken discusses conservation in relation to individual worth.
Gill Aitken discusses conservation in relation to individual worth.
Jac A. A. Swart points at the fact that environmental ethics has to deal with the challenge of reconciling contrasting ecocentric and animal-centric perspectives and analyse the two classic attempts at this reconciliation.
Using a case of mad cow disease in the United States, this paper argues, statements of risk are ultimately social products that come to us by way of translation.
In this editorial, Isis Brook introduces the complex field of ethical thinking about environments and non-human entities.
Wild Earth 12, no. 3, features essays on a cultural transformation towards sustainability, commerce and wilderness, the role of literary intellectuals in conservation, and the preservation of wildlands in Mexico.
Rather than revealing the power of nature to shape human history, yellow fever is a disease that historically entangles nature and culture.
A case study of the effects of malaria in the Caucasus across the revolutionary divide of 1917.
The authors provide an overview of the scientific and traditional knowledge that the Zaira community, located in the Solomon Islands, uses to underpin their community-based management regime of Leatherback Sea Turtles. This highlights the important role local communities play in the conservation of iconic species.
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.