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.
Environmental Values (journal)
"Re-Thinking Nature: Towards an Eco-Pluralism"
"Aesthetic Appreciation in the Artworld and in the Natural World"
In this paper, David E. W. Fenner explores some parallels and dissimilarities between aesthetic appreciation that takes as its focus art objects and that which focuses on natural objects.
"Resisting Development, Reinventing Modernity: Rural Electrification in the United States Before World War II"
The essay examines local resistance to the New Deal rural electrification program in the United States before World War II as a crucial aspect of socio-technical change.
"Gaia Infiltrata: The Anthroposphere as a Complex Autoparasitic System"
This paper compares the heuristic potential of three metaphorical paired concepts used in the relevant literature to characterise global relationships between the anthroposphere and the ecosphere.
"Environmental Organisations in New Forms of Political Participation: Ecological Modernisation and the Making of Voluntary Rules"
In this article, Magnus Bostrom analyses the role of envrionmental organisations since the early 1960s.
"Incorporating Value Trade-offs into Community-Based Environmental Risk Decisions"
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.
"The Liberation of Humanity and Nature"
In this essay, Eric Katz uses a pragmatic methodology to (1) reject the idea that we need a metaphysical understanding of the nature of nature before we can speak of nature’s liberation, and (2) explain the sense of liberation as being the continuation of human non-interference in natural processes.
“Disaster, Development and Governance: Reflections on the ‘Lessons’ of Bhopal.”
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.
"From Fieldwork to Mutual Learning: Working with PRATEC"
This paper places the work of a Peruvian NGO (PRATEC), with which the author collaborates, within a broad context of the theory of knowledge.
"Ranchers, Scientists, and Grass-roots Development in the United States and Kenya"
Charis M. Thompson describes key aspects of the formation in the mid 1990s of the Malpai Borderlands Group of the Southwest US, and the reorganisation of the Kenya Wildlife Service during 1994–6 and their legacies since then.