Gill Aitken discusses conservation in relation to individual worth.

Roger Scruton discusses totemism and its ecological function.

Graham Woodgate and Michael Redclift provide some theoretical starting points for constructing a social science approach to environmental issues.

Robyn Eckersley discusses the concepts of “human racism” and ecocentricm in relation to Tony Lynch and David Wells’ argument that any attempt to develop a non-anthropocentric morality must invariably slide back to either anthropocentrism (either weak or strong) or a highly repugnant misanthropy in cases of direct conflict between the survival needs of humans and nonhuman species.