ecology

Roger Scruton discusses totemism and its ecological function.

Marthe Kiley-Worthington discusses integration of wildlife conservation, food production and development in relation to ecological agriculture and elephant conservation in Africa.

This paper examines technical, ethical and ecological science perspectives on environmental valuation, and discusses problems in terms of the implications for practical policy-making.

In five sharply drawn chapters, Flight Maps charts the ways in which Americans have historically made connections—and missed connections—with nature.

Wild Earth 2, no. 3 about the Endangered Species Act, saving the Lynx, bioregionalism, and America’s last woodland caribou.

Wild Earth 2, no. 1 with essays on the ecological costs of livestock, bison hunt, trouts and their habitat, “wheeled locusts,” and off-road-vehicle trails on public lands.

Wild Earth 1, no. 2, with the issue theme “The New Conservation Movement,” on reforming the Sierra Club, grizzly hunting in Montana, and an Ancient Forest Reserve proposal for the Mendocino National Forest.

Wild Earth 1, no. 3 with essays on hydro development in North America, trans-boundary ecosystem preservation, the central Appalachian wilderness, and the need for deep ecological language.

Wild Earth 1, no. 4. on Canadian wilderness laws and national parks, how a proposed copper mine in Canada is threatening the rivers Tatshenshini and Alsek, and the hidden costs of developing natural gas reserves.

In his paper, Bruce Morito argues that “intrinsic value” is a concept born in the Western intellectual tradition for purposes of insulating and isolating those to whom intrinsic value can be attributed from one another and their environmental context.