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"The Moral Status of Beings who are not Persons: A Casuistic Argument"
Jon Wetlesen addresses the question: Who or what can have a moral status in the sense that we have direct moral duties to them?
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"Public Attitudes to Contingent Valuation and Public Consultation"
Roy Brouwer, Neil Powe, R. Kerry Turner, Ian J. Bateman, and Ian H. Langford outline support for both the individual WTP based approach and a participatory social deliberation approach to inform environmental decision-making processes.
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"Emotion, Science and Rationality: The Case of the Brent Spar"
Mark Huxham and David Sumner assess the case of the Brent Spar, discussing some of the lessons that should be learnt from the incident by policy makers and scientists.
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"The Disparate Roots of Voluntary Modesty"
Hana Librová discusses the disparate roots of voluntary modesty.
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"The Development of Environmental Thinking in Economics"
Clive L. Spash traces the thinking of a sub-group of established economists trying to convey an environmental critique of the mainstream into the late 20th century, via the development of associations and journals in the USA and Europe.
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"Nature is Already Sacred"
Kay Milton shows that the idea that humans see nature as sacred, and the acknowledgment that humanity is a part of nature rather than separate from it are two concepts that are incompatible in the context of western culture.
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"Pragmatism, Adaptive Management, and Sustainability"
Bryan G. Norton proposes the pragmatic conception of truth, anticipated by Henry David Thoreau and developed by C.S. Peirce and subsequent pragmatists, as a useful analogy for characterizing “sustainability.”
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"Can We Talk Ourselves into Sustainability? The Role of Discourse in the Environmental Policy Process"
Yvonne Rydin examines the different ways in which the significance of environmental discourse is recognized, analyzing its influence.
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"Silencing Philosophers: Minteer and the Foundations of Anti-Foundationalism"
J. Baird Callicott responds to Ben A. Minteer’s representation of his critique of moral pluralism.
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Abschalten—Apaga y Vámonos [Switch off]
One of the world’s largest dams, Ralco, on the river Biobío in Chile, opened in 2004 after numerous clashes with the Mapuche people. The land of this ancient indigenous community has been flooded by Endesa, the Spanish multinational company.