"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.
Wild Earth 6, no. 4 features essays opposing wilderness deconstruction. Gary Snyder writes on nature as a social construction, Dave Foreman contributes a piece on the conservation opposition’s underlying views, and Don Waller discusses the evolution of wilderness concepts.
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.
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.
Wild Earth 8, no. 1 features essays on protection strategies for old growth forests, the problems of non-indigenous species for freshwater conservation, and using direct democracy to defend nature.
Wild Earth 8, no. 4 celebrates a “Wilderness Revival.” The essays present American and Canadian perspectives on wilderness and its values, wilderness politics, and wilderness campaigns both new and old.
Wild Earth 13, no. 2/3, features essays on the biological and cultural significance of snakes, the populist right in America, rednecks as wildlife managers, and mosquitoes across the Florida Everglades.
Wild Earth 3, no. 4 puts the spotlight on endangered invertebrates, exotic pests in US forests, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, and keywords of conservation and environmental discourses.