Peter Lucas argues that even though it is widely acknowledged that social theorists can make an important contribution to our understanding of environmental risk, there is however a danger that the current ascendancy of social theory will encourage a tendency to assimilate issues around environmental risk to those at stake in entrenched debates between realist and constructivist social theorists.
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In this paper, Elisa Aaltola analyses the new ‘other animal ethics’ by critically examining its basis and consequences.
Melissa Clarke presents some groundwork for the future direction of an environmental ethic inspired by a Merleau-Pontian ontology.
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?
Divergent values are often at the heart of natural resource conflict. Sarah Fleisher Trainor analyses those using the case study of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, USA.
In this paper, Tony Lynch and David Wells argue that environmental politics needs more than piecemeal institutional efforts or calls for a set of ‘new’ values and that is a realistic, comprehensive, and effective policy programme.
In his article, Stefan Mann presents different perspectives on cross-compliance.
In his article, Walter K. Dodds tries to answer the question of whether we can control humanity’s hitherto endless appetite for resources before we irreparably harm the global ecosystem and cause the extinction of even more species.
Allan Greenbaum presents his notion of nature connoisseurship.
In this paper Michael S. Carolan looks at Michel Foucault and Fernand Braudel’s conception of how economy enters into nature.