"The Disvalue of 'Contingent Valuation' and the Problem of the 'Expectation Gap'"
Laura Westra argues that even if we could elicit a truly informed and “free” choice, the “Contingent Valuation” method would remain flawed.
Laura Westra argues that even if we could elicit a truly informed and “free” choice, the “Contingent Valuation” method would remain flawed.
Simon A. Hailwood discuss some key elements of an environmental philosophy distinguishing between humanity and a nature valued precisely for its otherness, and some of the difficulties involved with keeping nature’s otherness in focus.
This paper seeks to answer the question of how environmental ethics is approached in Latin America.
Bron Taylor examines the evolution of “green religions” in North America and beyond.
Edward Burtynsky’s photographs, as beautiful as they are horrifying, capture views of the Earth altered by mankind.
Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future.
This article presents findings from an interdisciplinary study of the Loma Salvatierra archaeological site, which contribute to the discussion about the origins of venereal syphilis by further clarifying a likely origin and route of transmission of syphilis from the Old World to the New.
Using McGilchrist’s study The Master and His Emissary, Frank Zelko discusses possible neurobiological origins of the tension between holistic and reductive thought, specifically by looking at the structure of the two hemispheres of our brains.
Bodily adaptations have been integrated into human culture in a co-evolutionary process, such as the social and regulating function of the moral emotion shame. The ability to feel shame and physiological markers of it, such as blushing, are hardwired, but they are used in many different and sometimes even contradicting ways in specific cultures.
This essay discusses Biodiversity, the 1988 landmark collection of papers edited by American biologist E. O. Wilson, which established biodiversity as a popular scientific concept.