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"Democracy and Environmental Decision-Making"
Klaus Peter Rippe and Peter Schaber discuss democracy and environmental decision-making.
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"The Disvalue of 'Contingent Valuation' and the Problem of the 'Expectation Gap'"
Laura Westra argues that even if we could elicit a truly informed and “free” choice, the “Contingent Valuation” method would remain flawed.
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"Immigration and Environment: Settling the Moral Boundaries"
Robert L. Chapman discusses how one might set moral boundaries relating to immigration and environment.
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"Sustainable Development and Social Justice: Expanding the Rawlsian Framework of Global Justice"
Oluf Langhelle discusses expansion of the Rawlsian framework of global justice in relation to sustainable development.
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Lo, Y. S., "A Humean Argument for the Land Ethic?"
This article examines allegedly Humean solutions by J. Baird Callicott to the is/ought dichotomy and the land ethic’s summary moral precept, concluding that neither the solution nor the argument is Humean or cogent.
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Callicott, J. Baird, "The Pragmatic Power and Promise of Theoretical Environmental Ethics: Forging a New Discourse"
J. Baird Callicott explains how the concept of intrinsic value from environmental ethics has contributed to reshaping discourses of environmental activism and policy.
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"Reproductive Liberty and Overpopulation"
This essay argues that reproductive liberty should not be considered a fundamental human right, or certainly not an indefeasible right, but that it should, instead, be strictly regulated by a global agreement designed to reduce population to a sustainable level.
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"Unprojected Value, Unfathomed Caves and Unspent Nature: Reply to an Editorial"
This article replies to Alan Holland’s challenge to reconcile belief in non-anthropogenic intrinsic value with the poetry of John Clare and its projection onto nature of human feelings, and thus with projective humanism.
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Sustainable Water
“Can human interference with the global water and carbon cycle be buffered without mankind disappearing?” This is the systemic question that goes beyond the myths and stories told about water.
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"Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres (1991) and Archival Reimaginations of Eco-Cosmopolitanism"
This article blurs the boundaries of literature, agriculture, public history, grassroots political activism, and public policymaking in order to problematize the current eco-cosmopolitan trajectory of ecocritical theory.