In episode 42 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj interviews David Boyd about his new book The Right to a Healthy Environment: Revitalizing Canada’s Constitution and discusses whether Canadians have a constitutional right to live in a healthy environment.
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This paper places the work of a Peruvian NGO (PRATEC), with which the author collaborates, within a broad context of the theory of knowledge.
Charis M. Thompson describes key aspects of the formation in the mid 1990s of the Malpai Borderlands Group of the Southwest US, and the reorganisation of the Kenya Wildlife Service during 1994–6 and their legacies since then.
This essay argues that important development and natural resource management initiatives that seek to expand meaningful participation by rural communities directly affected by such ventures can be usefully examined as democratic technologies.
Sheila Jasanoff analyses the four mechanisms that according to her have helped to strip development of its subjective and meaning-laden elements.
In this paper the conservation value of traditionally protected forests is studied with regard to its ecological representativity and institutional persistence.
Victoria Davion critiques a conception of intelligence central in AI, and a related concept of reason central in moral philosophy, from an ecological feminist perspective.
Peter Lucas argues that even though it is widely acknowledged that social theorists can make an important contribution to our understanding of environmental risk, there is however a danger that the current ascendancy of social theory will encourage a tendency to assimilate issues around environmental risk to those at stake in entrenched debates between realist and constructivist social theorists.
In this paper, Elisa Aaltola analyses the new ‘other animal ethics’ by critically examining its basis and consequences.
Melissa Clarke presents some groundwork for the future direction of an environmental ethic inspired by a Merleau-Pontian ontology.