environmentalism

The article deals with some implications of radical uncertainty for participatory democracy, and more precisely for Participatory Technology Assessment (PTA).

The present paper is a commentary on very interesting papers by Thomas Dunlap, Thomas Hill, and Kimberly Smith, who take up the spiritual, ethical, and political perspectives respectively. Their accounts are described and evaluated.

This paper seeks to show that sociobiology does not pose the kinds of threat to humanism and environmentalism outlined by Hinchman.

This paper suggests that the contribution of Buddhism to the issue of species conservation should be part of the conservation discourse.

This paper builds on the work of Neil A. Manson arguing that the precautionary principle is fraught with vagueness and ambiguity.

In this article Ronald Sandler considers four concerns regarding the possibility of an environmental virtue ethic functioning as an alternative—rather than a supplement—to more conventional approaches to environmental ethics.

This paper discusses the limitations, omissions, and value judgements of the application of conventional economic analysis in the evaluation of climate change mitigation policies.

This paper offers a critical examination of efforts to use Heidegger’s thought to illuminate deep ecology.

In this article, Andrew Light and Aurora Wallace highlight several examples of how environmental architecture has combined success and failure at taking a broader view of environmental questions, with a specific focus on one green skyscraper that may be good for the natural environment but not necessarily for the human environment of the city.

The purpose of the present paper is to provide an improved conceptual foundation for the debate around the precautionary principle in the form of an explication of the concept of precaution.