This paper explores the idea that a proper valuing of natural environments is essential to (and not just a natural basis for) a broader human virtue that might be called ‘appreciation of the good’.
The present paper is a commentary on very interesting papers by Thomas Dunlap, Thomas Hill, and Kimberly Smith, who take up the spiritual, ethical, and political perspectives respectively. Their accounts are described and evaluated.
Stephen M. Gardiner discusses climate change, intergenerational ethics, and the convergence of problems which make climate change “a perfect moral storm.”
In this paper, Birgitte Nerlich and Nick Wright analyze the interaction between policy and ritual during the foot and mouth crisis in the UK.
In his essay, Robert L. Chapman analyzes the role of environmental restoration.
In this article, Mercè Agüera-Cabo presents the case of grassroots organizations in North Catalonia in the context of gender, values, and power in local environmental conflicts.
This essay examines the dominant images of rainforests and rainforest peoples portrayed in accounts of travels in tropical America published in National Geographic.
In his article Robert Kirkman recommends that environmental philosophers consider the possibility of a Darwinian humanism, through which moral agents are understood as both free and causally intertwined with the natural world.
Using Darwin’s thoughts regarding conscience, Ben Dixon begins the project of grounding a revised account of human dignity in the human tendency to enshrine products of conscience within institutions.
This essay aims to reconstruct Herman Daly and John Cobb’s criticism of growth from the person-in-community approach.
