J. M. Howarth outlines how phenomenological enquiry can reveal and criticise modernist assumptions, while traditional phenomenological notions might form a more eco-friendly framework for the value bases of interactions within nature.
Christopher J. Preston explores differing stances taken by supporters of the intrinsic value and the care approaches to environmental ethics, and looks for common ground.
Marcel Wissenburg argues that ‘global and ecological justice’ represents an informal combination of four distinct and sometimes conflicting ideas: global justice, protection of the ecology, sustainability and sustainable growth.
Eriksson and Arnell address the ecological and cultural effects of the Swedish infield system in Scandinavia. Their essay sheds light on how the human construction and management of infields maintained a spatial continuity that greatly altered, and continues to impact, how humans and other organisms have developed.
This film focuses on the causes of the decimation of honey bees and their hives around the globe, a phenomenon called “colony collapse disorder,” and its consequences for not only the economy but for humans’ very survival.
This film chronicles the struggle of a community in New York state to save a lake from an invasive weed and restore it to a habitat for migrating birds, and other flaura and fauna.
This film questions the sustainability of the four billion dollar global sushi industry, which has put the Blue Fin Tuna at risk of extinction.
The 2015 edition examines what we think we know about environmental damage and the hidden threats to sustainability we need to recognize.
This article examines the conflicts behind the scenes, within the AAS, between the AAS and the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority (SMA), and within the SMA. It argues that the scientists’ conflict with the SMA over plans for the summit area of Mount Kosciusko (now Kosciuszko) not only established ecology as a scientific basis for conservation thinking: It foreshadowed the current idea that management of a healthy country involves recognition of the links between aesthetic and scientific thinking.
Wild Earth 9, no. 3 celebrates Aldo Leopold’s legacy. Also in this issue are reports on the Loomis Forest Wildlands, the Southern Rockies and the Grand Canyon ecoregion, and indigenous knowledge and conservation policy in Papua New Guinea.
