Environmental Values (journal)

James Nelson considers what kind of normative work might be done by speaking of ecosystems utilizing a “medical” vocabulary—drawing, that is, on such notions as “health,” disease,” and “illness.”

Markus J. Peterson and Tarla Rai Peterson make an argument for the synergy between deep, feminist, and scientific ecology towards improving environmental policy.

Tony Lynch discusses the relevance of seeing deep ecology as an aesthetic movement rather than as a moral ethic.

Kelly Parker examines several kinds of growth, seeking to identify a sustainable form which could be adopted as normative for human society.

James Sterba argues that laying out the most morally defensible versions of an anthropological environmental ethics and nonanthropocentric ethics would lead us to accept the same principles of environmental justice.

Jonathan Aldred outlines the need for a fundamental redefinition of existence value in environmental economists.

Russell Keat presents a critical evaluation of Mark Sagoff’s critique of economistic approaches to environmental decision-making in The Economy of the Earth.

R.H. Gray discusses corporate reporting for sustainable development and the need for a major regulatory initiative.

Guy Claxton discusses the role of self-transformation methodologies, associated with spiritual traditions such as Buddhism, towards changing dysfunctional habits of consumption.

Mary Midgley explores if there is a necessary clash between concern for animals and concern for the environment as a whole.