environmentalism

Anna Davies addresses the products of a public participation exercise conducted in Luton, south-east England in order to consider what it is that “silence knows.”

Ned Hettinger argues that exotic species should not be identified as damaging species, species introduced by humans, or species originating from some other geographical location and presents an alternative characterization.

Christopher J. Preston uses studies of the embodied mind to show that rationality is integrally connected to our animal and animate nature and hence not a significant point of departure between human and non-human animals.

This paper offers an ethico-political interpretation of primitivism’s critical relation to modernity in terms of the dialectic between amorality (innocence) and immorality (guilt) within what is characterized as modernity’s “culture of contamination.”

John A. Curtis argues that there may be instances where assessing wildlife for monetary valuation might be quite reasonable and useful for public policy, even when there are strong arguments against valuation of wildlife and nature.

Peter S. Wenz analyses the notion of efficiency and argues that transportation policies that environmentalists favour—substitution of intercity rail and urban mass transit for most automotive forms of transport—are both efficient and just.

Ronan Palmer discusses philosophical aspects of environmental values.

Robert L. Chapman discusses how one might set moral boundaries relating to immigration and environment.

Paul Anand compares use of willingness to pay values with multi-attribute utility as ways of modelling social choice problems in the environment.

This article attempts to illuminate this question of what the nature of envrionmental problems is by exploring the relationship between environmental ethics, environmental problems and their solution.