This paper adopts a social constructionist perspective to examine how the biodiversity “claim” is constructed and contested at local level.
Drawing upon two case studies of biodiversity initiatives in Canada, this paper looks at the role that constructivist conceptions of education play in the integration of alternative knowledge systems in environmental decision-making.
This paper studies the role of differing views of nature in nature conservation.
Allan Greenbaum presents his notion of nature connoisseurship.
This paper suggests that the contribution of Buddhism to the issue of species conservation should be part of the conservation discourse.
This essay discusses ways of thinking about botanic gardens that pay close attention to their particularity as designed spaces, dependent on technique, that nonetheless purport to present (and preserve) natural entities (plants).
John O’Neill discusses the problems in conservation policy based upon the identification of ecological value with a particular conception of beauty and wilderness.
In this essay, Freya Mathews argues that the moral point of view involves a feeling for the inner reality of others and explains the consequences of this idea for other-than-human life forms and systems.
Darwin’s Nightmare is a story about people in the North and South, about globalization, and about fish.
In this paper, arguments for ecosystems service valuation are critically appraised and the case for a model leading to value pluralism is presented.
