ethics

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.

Roger Paden traces the influence of biological ideas on environmental ethics. Is there an alternative to the grand theories commonly employed?

Laura Westra discusses environmental holism in relation to the democratic rights of individuals and of nation states within the international community.

David Cooper discusses the identification of what is wrong with the demise of wildlife and the human sentiments which are offended by that demise.

Eric Katz examines and compares the ontological and axiological character of artefacts—human creations—with nonhuman natural entities.

Paul Craig, Harold Glasser, and Willett Kempton interview senior policy advisors to four European governments active in global climate change negotiations and the UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) process.

This book catalyzes the reflection about the aesthetic and spiritual dimension in the environmental humanities and offers transdisciplinary insights into the challenge of sustainability and ongoing changes in our society and environment.

The documentary follows a tribe in one of the poorest regions in India and its fight to save a sacred mountain from multinational mining moguls.