In the United States the 1985 Farm Bill lead to the creation of a program called the Conservation Reserve Program. It allows farmers to enter into a rental contract in which they are paid for idling and reverting agricultural land to natural ecosystems for conservation purposes.
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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.
The paper highlights shortcomings in GMO public consultation practices in the European Union and in one of its member countries, Finland. Specifically, they do not serve democracy, increase consensus, enable better decisions to be made, or establish trust.
This article considers Hegel’s account of the emergence of Absolute Spirit, weighs its advantages and disadvantages as an approach to human moral experience and as a strategic move for environmentalists, and concludes with a refinement of Darwinian humanism and a clarification of its implications for environmental ethics.
This article looks at the history of colonial forest policies in South India to argue that initially British destroyed most the accessible forests and used desiccationist fears to justify the colonial state’s monopolistic control over the forests.
In this article the author poses the question whether rationality can be the reason why humans deserve moral consideration and animals do not.
The author’s aim in this paper is to show, by means of a phenomenological investigation, that the “scepticism regarding animal minds” presupposes an implausible account of how we relate to others, both humnan and nonhuman.
This article argues that hunting is not a sport, but a neo-traditional cultural trophic practice consistent with ecological ethics, including a meliorist concern for animal rights or welfare.
After showing that Rolston’s and Callicott’s value theories are fundamentally flawed, the author demonstrates that a value theory grounded in neoclassical, or process, metaphysics avoids the problems in, and incorporates insights from, these accounts.
This article sketches the contours of the emerging paradigm: a complementary system of traditional and modern methods of water provision, a participatory water resources management and a ‘post-mechanistic’ ethico-religious framework.