Jan J. Boersema defends the proposition that the limited progress made with respect to the environment could be due to a potential conflict between “quality” and sustainable development.
Warwick Fox discusses education and the obligations of scientists to promote intepretive agendas.
Philip Sarre argues that new environmental values are needed as the advanced industrial economy becomes global.
Snorre Kverndok uses conventional justice principles to evaluate alternative allocation rules for tradeable CO2 permits, recommending a distribution proportional to population.
Richard Gault explores the nature of time and its relation to our concerns for the future.
Wilfred Beckerman responds to the Jacobs and Daly criticisms of his earlier article in the same journal criticising the concept of “sustainable development.”
Timothy O’Riordan and Andrew Jordan discuss the place of the precautionary principle in contemporary environmental politics, arguing that its future looks promising but not assured.
Keekok Lee examines the National Trust’s decision to restore Yew Tree Tarn in UK’s Lake District, and argues that while aesthetics is important, it cannot form the basis of an adequate environmental philosophy.
Andrew Dobson considers the contribution that a biocentric perspective might make to the ethical debate concerning the practice of genetic engineering.
David Sumner and Peter Gilmour discuss the arguments relating to radiation mortality, arguing them to be rooted in a utilitarian system of moral philosophy.
