ethics

Tony Lynch discusses the relevance of seeing deep ecology as an aesthetic movement rather than as a moral ethic.

Kelly Parker examines several kinds of growth, seeking to identify a sustainable form which could be adopted as normative for human society.

Jonathan Aldred outlines the need for a fundamental redefinition of existence value in environmental economists.

Mary Midgley explores if there is a necessary clash between concern for animals and concern for the environment as a whole.

John M. Francis examines the dilemma that arises from the British application of “voluntary principle” legislation to long-term land management strategies in support of nature conservation.

Peter H. Kahn Jr. makes a case that both litigation and mediation need to be embedded within a more ethically comprehensive context, one of “courting ethical community.”

Michael Levine discusses pantheism in relation to ecology in the context of the search for the metaphysical and ethical foundations for an ethological ethic.

Alan MacQuillan discusses the advent of new forestry in the United States as representing a traumatic shift in the philosophy of national forestry praxis, a broadening of values to include aesthetics and sustainability of natural ecological process.

Markus Peterson and Tarla Rai Peterson outline the history of valuation techniques using the Exxon Valdez disaster response and the valuation of whooping cranes as examples of how these tools can constrain policy, presenting an ethical dilemma for democracies by naturalizing, then ethicizing, existing patterns of domination.