In his essay, Lewis P. Hinchman argues that environmental theorists, seeking the origin of Western exploitative attitudes toward nature, who have directed their attacks against “humanism” are wrong. Instead, humanism has much closer affinities to environmentalism than the latter’s advocates believe.
This paper offers a critical examination of efforts to use Heidegger’s thought to illuminate deep ecology.
In this essay, Eric Reitan analyzes the claims of the “wise-use” movement, its implications for private property rights and the extent to which these rights should influence public policy decisions.
In this article, Joan Hoffmann presents a case study of the New York City Catskill/Delaware watershed.
This paper explores the context of environmental justice (EJ) in Scotland, and presents a case study whereby the main attributes for an indicator of EJ were identified, encompassing procedural and distributive aspects of justice.
This paper argues that a full understanding of environmentalism requires seeing it as a secular faith, movement concerned with ultimate questions of humans’ place and purpose in the world.
Marcel Wissenburg argues that ‘global and ecological justice’ represents an informal combination of four distinct and sometimes conflicting ideas: global justice, protection of the ecology, sustainability and sustainable growth.
The film follows the trial of Nicaraguan banana farmers against the Dole company.
In this editorial, Clive L. Spash discusses current economic and political motives as well as values and beliefs surrounding environmental issues.
This paper examines some of many tensions associated with the utopian propensity that underlies much thinking and action in radical environmentalism.
