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

Drawing upon two case studies of biodiversity initiatives in Canada, this paper looks at the role that constructivist conceptions of education play in the integration of alternative knowledge systems in environmental decision-making.

In his paper, Patrick Curry argues in favor of a “relational pluralism,” which provides the basis of a better alternative—ecopluralism—which, properly understood, is necessarily both ecocentric and pluralist.

In this paper Robin S. Gregory discusses six reasons why such trade-offs are difficult and, for each, present helpful techniques from the decision sciences along with case study examples of successful applications.

Using the case study of the Bhopal gas disaster, S. Ravi Rajan articulates a framework of questions for the next generation of research and advocacy.

Victoria Davion critiques a conception of intelligence central in AI, and a related concept of reason central in moral philosophy, from an ecological feminist perspective.

In this paper, Alexander K. Lautensach tries to answer the following questions: to what extent and in what respects can ecologists be regarded as motivated by environmentalist values? What other values might contribute to their motivations?

Walker focuses on uncertainty as a boundary device that shapes scientific ethos in crucial ways and negotiates a relationship between technical science and public deliberation.

Callicott supposes that the environmental turn in the humanities, grounded in ecology and evolutionary biology, foreshadows an emerging NeoPresocratic revival in twenty-first century philosophy.