Environmental Values (journal)

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.

This paper argues that the analogy with warfare should not be used for justificatory or rhetorical purposes, but that it may nevertheless have a legitimate heuristic role to play in environmental philosophy.

This paper outlines a constructivist approach to environmental ethics which attempts to reconcile realism in the ontological sense.

In their article, William R. Sheate and J. Ivan Scrase argue that for a risk-oriented framing to succeed, new assumptions about causation and a new ethical outlook are now needed.

In his article, Mick smith suggests an alternative model of political expression more suitable to an environmental ethic, the denizen.