"Towards Global Environmental Values: Lessons from Western and Eastern Experience"
Philip Sarre argues that new environmental values are needed as the advanced industrial economy becomes global.
Philip Sarre argues that new environmental values are needed as the advanced industrial economy becomes global.
Snorre Kverndok uses conventional justice principles to evaluate alternative allocation rules for tradeable CO2 permits, recommending a distribution proportional to population.
Richard Gault explores the nature of time and its relation to our concerns for the future.
Keekok Lee examines the National Trust’s decision to restore Yew Tree Tarn in UK’s Lake District, and argues that while aesthetics is important, it cannot form the basis of an adequate environmental philosophy.
Andrew Dobson considers the contribution that a biocentric perspective might make to the ethical debate concerning the practice of genetic engineering.
David Sumner and Peter Gilmour discuss the arguments relating to radiation mortality, arguing them to be rooted in a utilitarian system of moral philosophy.
David Rapport explores what is and what is not implied by the ecosystem health metaphor.
James Nelson considers what kind of normative work might be done by speaking of ecosystems utilizing a “medical” vocabulary—drawing, that is, on such notions as “health,” disease,” and “illness.”
Bryan Norton discusses limitations to James Nelson’s concept of ecosystem health as having both descriptive and normative content.
Dale Jamieson develops several objections to the concept of ‘ecosystem health’ in environmental policy, outlining problems in governance institutions, value structures, and knowledge systems.