"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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"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.
"Does the Spirit Move You? Environmental Spirituality"
Annie L. Booth discusses environmental spirituality.
"Environmental Thought as Cosmological Intervention"
Allan Greenbaum discusses environmental thought as cosmological intervention.
"The Troubled Marriage of Deep Ecology and Bioregionalism"
In this essay Steward Davidson argues that bioregionalism’s assimilation of aspects of deep ecology, and particularly an emphasis upon cross-species identification, undermines the project in various ways.
"The Misbegotten Child of Deep Ecology"
This paper offers a critical examination of efforts to use Heidegger’s thought to illuminate deep ecology.
"Value, Metaphysics and Anthropocentrism"
Bruce Morito shows that our inclusion as members of the ecological community makes our valuational activity an integral and transformational element within more comprehensive ecological processes, thus indicating a need for our moral commitment to the environment to be radically reshaped.
"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.
"Deep Ecology as an Aesthetic Movement"
Tony Lynch discusses the relevance of seeing deep ecology as an aesthetic movement rather than as a moral ethic.
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.