"Values, Advocacy and Conservation Biology"
In this essay, Jay Odenbaugh examines the controversy concerning the advocacy of ethical values in conservation biology.
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"Strangers in a Strange Land: The Problem of Exotic Species"
In this essay, Marks Woods and Paul Veatch Moriatry try to answer two philosophical questions in order to develop and enact sensible policies: (1) What exactly makes a species native or exotic, and (2) What values are at stake?
"Exotic Species, Naturalisation, and Biological Nativism"
Ned Hettinger argues that exotic species should not be identified as damaging species, species introduced by humans, or species originating from some other geographical location and presents an alternative characterization.
"Naturalism and Environmentalism: A Reply to Hinchman"
This paper seeks to show that sociobiology does not pose the kinds of threat to humanism and environmentalism outlined by Hinchman.
The Biopolitics of the Border
This article discusses the resonances between animal territoriality and geopolitical borders.
Contentious Diversities and Dangerous Species: Biocultural Diversity in the Context of Human-Animal Conflicts
This article engages with such questions by focusing on the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary of Kerala in southern India, arguing that a reconceptualization of both “culture” and “nature” will be necessary in order to prevent the concept of biocultural diversity from appearing as just another form of “green neocolonization” or “eco-imperialism.”
The Politics of Making Biocultural Diversity
This essay highlights the temporal and conceptual novelty of biocultural diversity, considering how we can understand biocultural diversity in relation to power, history, and the role of governance. The essay shows how these questions arise by looking at their emergence in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province.
Biocultural Diversity and the Problem of the Superabundant Individual
This paper deals with the subset of work on biocultural diversity that quantifies cultural and biological elements in order to map and compare them across regions.
Neurogeology: The Anthropocene’s Inspirational Power
This article argues that Planet Earth has entered a period of “neurogeology”: the mental states and resulting actions of individual humans, groups of humans, and the collective mental states of all humans together are creating a new mode of planetary development.
The Great Gypsy Moth War: The History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890-1901
The untold story behind the importation and release of the gypsy moth in North America.