"Getting Behind Environmental Ethics"
The article explores the possibilities of a new ethic that incorporates the phenomenon of environmental crisis and aims at changing people’s outlooks and behaviour.
The article explores the possibilities of a new ethic that incorporates the phenomenon of environmental crisis and aims at changing people’s outlooks and behaviour.
Jared Diamond investigates why cultures prosper or decline.
Graham Woodgate and Michael Redclift provide some theoretical starting points for constructing a social science approach to environmental issues.
Andrew Vincent examines the economic evaluation of the environment, concluding it is at odds with beliefs based upon objective and intrinsic values.
Sheila Jasanoff reflects on the role of science in promoting convergent perceptions of risk across disparate political cultures.
Maurie J. Cohen undertakes a comparative analysis of how national context has differently shaped science as a public epistemology.
Paul Anand compares use of willingness to pay values with multi-attribute utility as ways of modelling social choice problems in the environment.
This article attempts to illuminate this question of what the nature of envrionmental problems is by exploring the relationship between environmental ethics, environmental problems and their solution.
Tie Xi Qu [West of the Tracks] documents the decline of China’s largest industrial manufacturing centers.
The documentary explores the lives of five young people who have decided to become small-scale farmers.