ethics

Wild Earth 4, no. 1 discusses aquatic ecosystems, vacuuming the Northern Forest, mismanagement in the Southern Appalachians, and lessons from the Vermont wilderness.

Wild Earth 3, no. 4 puts the spotlight on endangered invertebrates, exotic pests in US forests, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, and keywords of conservation and environmental discourses.

The authors offer a manifesto for the humanities to step up to the challenges of environmental change, and invite others to join the open global consortium Humanities for the Environment.

Wild Earth 6, no. 4 features essays opposing wilderness deconstruction. Gary Snyder writes on nature as a social construction, Dave Foreman contributes a piece on the conservation opposition’s underlying views, and Don Waller discusses the evolution of wilderness concepts.

This issue of Wild Earth celebrates the third year of the Wildlands Project featuring the theme “A Critique and Defense of the Wilderness Idea,” as well as essays on: falcons in urban environments, state complicity in wildlife losses, and common lands recovery.

Ethics of Nature is an inquiry into the value of nature. Is nature’s value only instrumental value for human beings or does nature also have intrinsic value?

Response to Dale Jamieson’s article ‘Animal Liberation is an Environmental Ethic’ in Environmental Values 7, No. 1.

Should Trees Have Standing? continues to serve as the definitive statement as to why trees, oceans, animals, and the environment as a whole should be bestowed with legal rights.

Moral Ground presents a diverse and compelling call to honor our individual and collective moral responsibility to our planet.