The paper highlights shortcomings in GMO public consultation practices in the European Union and in one of its member countries, Finland. Specifically, they do not serve democracy, increase consensus, enable better decisions to be made, or establish trust.

This article considers Hegel’s account of the emergence of Absolute Spirit, weighs its advantages and disadvantages as an approach to human moral experience and as a strategic move for environmentalists, and concludes with a refinement of Darwinian humanism and a clarification of its implications for environmental ethics.

This paper considers the particular case of environmental policy where we are faced with pressures not only from deliberators and stakeholders, but also in response to dynamic changes in the environment itself.

This paper demonstrates how a Political Economy of Wealth—an analytical framework inspired from Ricardo’s and Marx’s theories of value—strengthens the analytical force of Socio-Ecological Economics in the context of the controversy over the value of nature.