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"Beauty and the Bees: Editorial"

O'Neill, John

John O’Neill discusses the problems in conservation policy based upon the identification of ecological value with a particular conception of beauty and wilderness.

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"Technology and Epistemology: Environmental Mentalities and Urban Water Usage"

Stuart, Nicole

This paper examines the mentalities associated with the transformation of “nature” into urban life in industrial societies, with particular reference to the conversion of rainwater into tap water. It argues that industrial technologies dissociate urban dwellers from the natural environment upon which they depend.

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"Environmentalism in Ireland: Ecological Modernisation versus Populist Rural Sentiment"

Leonard, Liam

This paper examines the contestation of two forms of environmentalism, institutional ecomodernism versus a grassroots ecopopulism within the context of the ongoing dispute between a local community in the west of Ireland and both multinationals and the state, who are attempting to run gas pipelines from the Atlantic Corrib Field through the rural community’s lands.

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"Local Deliberation and the Favouring of Nature"

Zwart, Ivan

This paper addresses the question of general environmental interests through two case studies in Australian local government and argues there are at least three factors that affect the ability of notionally deliberative arrangements to deliver outcomes that appear favourable to the natural environment.

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"Dominating Nature"

Brennan, Jason

In this paper, the author explains both the causes and solution to anti-environmental attitudes within the framework of Hegel’s master-slave dialectic.

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