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.
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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.
This article compares the thoughts of Darwin and Wallace on human evolution and the relations between humans and the rest of nature.
This article examines if the material and non-material values of nature can be reconciled and looks at the ecosystem services and the ‘elements of nature’ frameworks.
This article examines whether and how Aldo Leopold was influenced by American Pragmatism, a formal school of philosophy.
This article examines a trend in town-planning studies known as “reformist” that developed in Italy and marked a deep change in land management concepts. Beginning in the Sixties, it sought to reform the economic growth to limit its negative social and environmental impact.
This article analyzes how World War II impacted both the marine and the terrestrial environment of the North Atlantic, triggered major political and economic decisions with profound cultural implications, and eventually induced a change in ocean management.
During the fall of the Soviet Union, a depleted Cuba implements various measures—including sustainable and environmentally sound practices—to avoid devastation.
The Philippine Mining Act, a pro-mining piece of legislation providing heavy incentives to foreign companies, is signed into law on 3 March 1995. It stirs extensive court battles between the government and anti-mining indigenous people.
International conservationists and researchers launch a three-year action plan to address the increasing endangerment of Madagascar’s endemic lemur population.