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"Living With Parasites in Palo Verde National Park"
Eben Kirksey on how diverging values and obligations shape relationships in multi-species worlds.
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"Conquering the Highlands: History of the Afforestation of the Scottish Uplands"
Jan Oosthoek explores the fascinating history of the afforestation of the Scottish uplands over the course of the twentieth century.
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"Beasts Versus the Biosphere?"
Mary Midgley explores if there is a necessary clash between concern for animals and concern for the environment as a whole.
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"Economics, Ecology and Sustainable Development: Are They Compatible?"
Anthony M. Friend on Ecological Economics—a new synthesis in which the traditional virtue of thrift is justified using modern ideas from systems theory and thermodynamics.
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"Rethinking the Relations of Nature, Culture and Agency"
Patrick Murphy argues for a new conception of human agency based on culturopoeia and an application of an ecofeminist dialogic method for analysing human-nature relationships.
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"Sylvan, Fox and Deep Ecology: A View from the Continental Shelf"
Robin Attfield presents and appraises Richard Sylvan’s trenchant critique of Deep Ecology and Warwick Fox’s illuminating reinterpretation and defence. A position intermediate between Deep Ecology and anthropocentrism is advocated, which has been called by Wayne Sumner “middle-depth environmentalism—a kind of continental shelf between the shallow and deep extremes.”
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"On Economization and Ecologization as Civilizing Processes"
Schmidt outlines the meaning and main phases of “economization” as a civilizing process, arguing that “ecologization” ’ of the current political-economic regime can be regarded as a continuation of this development. Due attention is given to the social conditions which may be favourable or impedimental to an ecologization of the economy. This article asks that environmental policies use the so-called trickle-down effect to their advantage.
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"Beautiful Action: Its Function in the Ecological Crisis"
Arne Naess discusses the distinction made by Kant between “moral” and “beautiful” actions in relation to efforts to counteract the current ecological crisis.
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"Distributional Obstacles to International Environmental Policy: The Failures at Rio and Prospects after Rio"
Martinez-Alier discusses issues relating to the concept of “sustainable development” as used by the Brundtland Commission.
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"Artefacts and Functions: A Note on the Value of Nature"
Eric Katz examines and compares the ontological and axiological character of artefacts—human creations—with nonhuman natural entities.