"Climate Change, Economic Analysis and Sustainable Development"
This paper discusses the limitations, omissions, and value judgements of the application of conventional economic analysis in the evaluation of climate change mitigation policies.
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"Citizens, Denizens and the Res Publica: Environmental Ethics, Structures of Feeling and Political Expression"
In his article, Mick smith suggests an alternative model of political expression more suitable to an environmental ethic, the denizen.
Ladkin, Donna, "Does 'Restoration' Necessarily Imply the Domination of Nature?"
This paper argues that restoration attempts should not be dismissed “out of hand,” and can be conducted outside of a “dominator logic.”
"Does the Convention on Biodiversity Safeguard Biological Diversity?"
Frank G. Mueller attempts to assess and evaluate some of the economic implications of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
"Ecology: Scientific, Deep and Feminist"
Markus J. Peterson and Tarla Rai Peterson make an argument for the synergy between deep, feminist, and scientific ecology towards improving environmental policy.
Playing the Matrix: The Fate of Biocultural Diversity in Community Governance and Management of Protected Areas
This article assesses the merits of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Protected Areas Matrix, and asks whether we are destroying endogenous processes that generate biocultural diversity in our quest to conserve it.
Shaped by the Imagination: Myths of Water, Women, and Purity
Our notions of water are closely linked to the female body and to discourses of objectification and control. It is this critical interlacing of ideas about gender, purity, and power that makes water intensely political.
Ubiquitous Mining: The Spatial Patterns of Limestone Quarrying in Late Nineteenth-Century Rhineland
Haumann looks at the spatial patterns of open-pit limestone mining in the Mettmann district of Germany and tries to explain why these “holes” are in the places they are and why they took the shape they did.
“Our Only World”—An American Vision
The photo exhibition “Our Only World,” opened at the Smithsonian Institution in 1974, is conceivably the first example of a photo exhibition in which a national government consciously employed photographic eco-images to emphasize the complexity of environmentalism and to sanction specific behavioral patterns.
"Environmental Valuation: Some Problems of Wrong Questions and Misleading Answers"
Jack L. Knetsch discusses the contingent valuation of people’s willingness to pay in relation to environmental valuation.