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"The Argument from Marginal Cases and the Slippery Slope Objection"
In this article the author poses the question whether rationality can be the reason why humans deserve moral consideration and animals do not.
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“Brief Historical Ecology of Northern Portugal during the Holocene”
This study reviews the main changes of the vegetation and fauna in northern Portugal during the Holocene, using literature from palaeoecology, archaeology, history, writings from travellers and naturalists, maps of agriculture and forestry and expert consultation.
Arcadia
Small-Scale Fisheries versus Whale-Watching Tourism: The Story of Puerto López
This article addresses the social implications of fishers leaving activities connected with small-scale fisheries, with an emphasis on food sovereignty.
Arcadia
Dead Zones and Toxic Algae Bloom in US Waters
Aquatic dead zones result from pollution caused by excessive fertilizer runoff and wastewater discharge. Their number and extent are increasing.
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"Human-nature Interactions through a Multispecies Lens"
This article introduces this issue of Conservation and Society, and argues strongly for new place-based conservation through a multispecies lens.
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Entmoot! The Washington Earth First! Newsletter, Spring 1994
This Spring 1994 issue of Entmoot! encourages environmental activists to take direct action about issues such as the eradication of wild salmon and the reintroduction of wolves.
Perspectives
Troubling Species: Care and Belonging in a Relational World
The categories and the types of care we assign are very often tenuous and troubled in nature. The articles in this volume explore some of the intricacy, ambiguity, and even irony in our perceptions and approaches to “multispecies” relations.
Perspectives Article
The Domestic Stain, or Maintaining Standards
Harriet Ritvo’s article complicates the categorical separation of “wild” and “domesticated” that has organized much Western thought on species distinctions. Ritvo invites us to think beyond the boundaries and fixedness of dominant concepts.
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Schlangenlinien: Eine Geschichte der Kreuzotter
Schlangenlinien examines the history of the European Viper and the shift from extermination policies to those of protection and rehabilitation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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“Hit them hard and hit them well.” Possums, Pollution, and the Past in Aotearoa/New Zealand
The killing of possums as “pests” is framed as a caring relationship towards Aotearoa/New Zealand’s natural environment.