Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway
Christopher Bosso considers how organizations that once contested the Establishment have become an establishment of their own.
Christopher Bosso considers how organizations that once contested the Establishment have become an establishment of their own.
This book offers a history of the conservation movement’s origins and provides a context for understanding contemporary enviromental problems and possible solutions.
Brian Baxter makes an argument in favour of person-centricism over ecocentricism.
John S. Akama, Christopher L. Lant, and G. Wesley Burnett use a political-ecological framework in the analysis of the social factors of wildlife conservation in Kenya.
Wilfred Beckerman and Joanna Pasek discuss criticisms of contingent valuation (CV) and allied techniques for estimating the intensity of peoples’ preferences for the environment, concluding that little progress will be made until both sides in the debate recognise what is valid in their opponents’ arguments.
Onora O’Neill discusses environmental values and anthropocentrism and speciesism, with reference to obligation-based reasoning.
Vernon G. Thomas discuss attitudes and issues preventing bans on toxic lead shot and sinkers in North America and Europe, to point out that despite the parallels between these countries’ reforms, there has been little parity between the banning of lead shot and fishing sinkers.
Giuseppe Munda presents a systematic discussion, mainly for non-economists, on economic approaches to the concept of sustainable development.
Michael Mason argues that Habermasian moral theory reveals a key tension between, on the one hand, an ethical commitment to wilderness preservation informed by deep ecological and bioregional principles that is oriented to a naturalistic value order and, on the other, the procedural norms of democratic participation.
Jonah H. Peretti questions nativist trends in Conservation Biology that have made environmentalists biased against alien species.