Mario Petrucci reviews the population-resource debate relating to Red, Green, and neo-Malthusian ideologies to demonstrate how they have ramified into current economic and development theory.
Environmental Values (journal)
"Population: Time-Bomb or Smoke-Screen?"
"The Ethicist Conception of Environmental Problems"
Barnabas Dickson analyses and criticises ethicist claims in environmental philosophy.
"Sustainable Development and Social Justice: Expanding the Rawlsian Framework of Global Justice"
Oluf Langhelle discusses expansion of the Rawlsian framework of global justice in relation to sustainable development.
"Teleological Presuppositions, and the 'Expectation Gap': A Response to Laura Westra"
Peter Lucas responds to Laura Westra’s article “The Disvalue of ‘Contingent Valuation’ and the Problem of the ‘Expectation Gap’ ” (Environmental Values 9, no. 2 (2000): 153–71).
"Urban Planning and Multiple Preference Schedules: On R.M. Hare's 'Contrasting Methods in Environmental Planning'"
Roger Paden presents a critical analysis of Hare’s article “Contrasting Methods in Environmental Planning.”
"Natural Resources, Gadgets and Artificial Life"
Steven Luper discusses natural resources, gadgets, and artificial life.
"When Something is to be Done: Proof of Environmental Harm and the Philosophical Tradition"
Carrie L. Hull discusses debates taking place among environmental scientists, providing a brief overview of the history of the formalist tendency in philosophy, and an illustration of the ways in which advocates of a strict laboratory methodology implicitly rely on this foundation.
"Ecocentricism and Persons"
Brian Baxter makes an argument in favour of person-centricism over ecocentricism.
"The Emperor has no Clothes...Let us Paint our Loincloths Rainbow: A Classical and Feminist Critique of Contemporary Science Policy"
Alastair Macintosh uses Plato and Bacon as yardsticks to consider the British government’s White Paper on science together with government research council reports as a basis for critiquing current science policy and its intensifying orientation, British and worldwide, towards industrial and military development.
"Two Distinctions in Environmental Goodness"
Karen Green applies Korsgaard’s distinctions—one between intrinsic and extrinsic value, and the other between having value as an end and having value as a means—to some issues in environmental philosophy.