The purpose of the present paper is to provide an improved conceptual foundation for the debate around the precautionary principle in the form of an explication of the concept of precaution.
This paper discusses the limitations, omissions, and value judgements of the application of conventional economic analysis in the evaluation of climate change mitigation policies.
In his article, Ben A. Minteer analyzes American pragmatist John Dewey’s idea of public interest in the context of environmental ethics and policy discussions.
In their article, William R. Sheate and J. Ivan Scrase argue that for a risk-oriented framing to succeed, new assumptions about causation and a new ethical outlook are now needed.
In his article, Mick smith suggests an alternative model of political expression more suitable to an environmental ethic, the denizen.
In his article, Alastair Iles analyzes how consumers, farmers, activists, industry, and policy-makers in the United States and Europe are building agency in making and using food miles.
This article argues that in a risky world and a risk-averse society even under the assumptions of weak sustainability the circumstances under which different forms of capital may be substituted are limited.
This paper argues that restoration attempts should not be dismissed “out of hand,” and can be conducted outside of a “dominator logic.”
In this paper, Alexander K. Lautensach tries to answer the following questions: to what extent and in what respects can ecologists be regarded as motivated by environmentalist values? What other values might contribute to their motivations?
In this paper Michael S. Carolan looks at Michel Foucault and Fernand Braudel’s conception of how economy enters into nature.
