Guy Claxton discusses the role of self-transformation methodologies, associated with spiritual traditions such as Buddhism, towards changing dysfunctional habits of consumption.
John Haldane discusses the need to consider issues relating to the aesthetics of the environment, using a little known theory of Aquinas.
Shrader-Frechette and McCoy use examples related to preservation versus development, hunting versus animal rights, and controversies over pest control, to show that, because ecology is conceptually and theoretically underdetermined, environmental values often influence the practice of ecological science.
Michael Levine discusses pantheism in relation to ecology in the context of the search for the metaphysical and ethical foundations for an ethological ethic.
Jared Diamond investigates why cultures prosper or decline.
Adam Cole-King discusses coastal conservation in Britain and the importance of reappraising tradition perceptions towards addressing British coasts’ diverse needs.
Robin Attfield and Barry Wilkins argue that there are ethical criteria independent of the criterion of sustainability, so critiquing the view that a practice which ought not to be followed must therefore not be sustainable.
Wilfred Beckerman discusses “sustainable development” and “sustainability” in relation to welfare maximization.
Peter H. Kahn Jr. makes a case that both litigation and mediation need to be embedded within a more ethically comprehensive context, one of “courting ethical community.”
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.
