Through examining topics of nuclear energy and tourism, Zivilgesellschaft und Protest portrays the transitions towards radicalism in the Bavarian environmental movement from the end of the Second World War to the late 1970s.
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Cholera and typhoid fever did play a role in sanitary reform in Linz/Donau, but cannot be interpreted as the trigger of these reforms.
This article describes an ongoing environmental disaster in Indonesia, where a mud volcano has been inundating an ever-increasing area.
In 2007/2008 a gendered ad campaign was used in Alberta, Canada, to encourage post-secondary students to undergo mumps vaccination. This ad campaign can be seen as the result of a confluence of factors unique to a campus environment.
This article addresses the social implications of fishers leaving activities connected with small-scale fisheries, with an emphasis on food sovereignty.
This paper explores how conceptions of Canada as a naturally healthy environment proved false when the ill-health of civilians was revealed during the First World War.
David Benatar refutes Peter Alward’s defense of the “naive argument” against moral vegetarianism.
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.
Robert Elliot discusses anthropocentric ethics, concluding with a subjectivist account of intrinsic value.
Chistopher J. Preston explains why environmental ethicists with a commitment to the normative significance of the historical evolutionary process may see synthetic biology as a moral “line in the sand.”