"Human Development—Friend or Foe to Environmental Ethics?"
Nigel Dower discusses human development in relation to environmental ethics.
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"Thoreau's Aesthetics and 'The Domain of the Superlative'"
In her essay, Dana Phillips presents a analysis of Thoreau’s aesthetics and “the domain of the superlative.”
"The Precautionary Principle in Contemporary Environmental Politics"
Timothy O’Riordan and Andrew Jordan discuss the place of the precautionary principle in contemporary environmental politics, arguing that its future looks promising but not assured.
"Deep Ecology as an Aesthetic Movement"
Tony Lynch discusses the relevance of seeing deep ecology as an aesthetic movement rather than as a moral ethic.
Volatile Bodies, Volatile Earth: Towards an Ethic of Vulnerability
This article outlines a “microontology” of social life on Earth. This ontology attends to the majority of relations on our planet: those amongst microbes.
"Economics, Sustainable Growth, and Community"
Kelly Parker examines several kinds of growth, seeking to identify a sustainable form which could be adopted as normative for human society.
"Existence Value, Welfare and Altruism"
Jonathan Aldred outlines the need for a fundamental redefinition of existence value in environmental economists.
"Beasts Versus the Biosphere?"
Mary Midgley explores if there is a necessary clash between concern for animals and concern for the environment as a whole.
"Nature Conservation and the Voluntary Principle"
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.
"'Resolving Environmental Disputes: Litigation, Mediation, and the Courting of Ethical Community"
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.”