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"Values, Advocacy and Conservation Biology"
In this essay, Jay Odenbaugh examines the controversy concerning the advocacy of ethical values in conservation biology.
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"Naturalism and Environmentalism: A Reply to Hinchman"
This paper seeks to show that sociobiology does not pose the kinds of threat to humanism and environmentalism outlined by Hinchman.
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Brook, Isis, "Editorial: Ethics Gets Real"
In this editorial, Isis Brook introduces the complex field of ethical thinking about environments and non-human entities.
Perspectives Article
Contentious Diversities and Dangerous Species: Biocultural Diversity in the Context of Human-Animal Conflicts
This article engages with such questions by focusing on the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary of Kerala in southern India, arguing that a reconceptualization of both “culture” and “nature” will be necessary in order to prevent the concept of biocultural diversity from appearing as just another form of “green neocolonization” or “eco-imperialism.”
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The Politics of Making Biocultural Diversity
This essay highlights the temporal and conceptual novelty of biocultural diversity, considering how we can understand biocultural diversity in relation to power, history, and the role of governance. The essay shows how these questions arise by looking at their emergence in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province.
Perspectives Article
Biocultural Diversity and the Problem of the Superabundant Individual
This paper deals with the subset of work on biocultural diversity that quantifies cultural and biological elements in order to map and compare them across regions.
Perspectives Article
Neurogeology: The Anthropocene’s Inspirational Power
This article argues that Planet Earth has entered a period of “neurogeology”: the mental states and resulting actions of individual humans, groups of humans, and the collective mental states of all humans together are creating a new mode of planetary development.
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The Biopolitics of the Border
This article discusses the resonances between animal territoriality and geopolitical borders.
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"Ecological Community, the Sense of the World, and Senseless Extinction"
Mick Smith examines how a posthumanist notion of ecological community might attempt to address questions concerning extinction.
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Evolution | Welcome to the Anthropocene
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.