This paper adopts a social constructionist perspective to examine how the biodiversity “claim” is constructed and contested at local level.
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Darren Domsky discusses J. Baird Callicott’s attack on Christopher D. Stone’s moral pluralism and argues that it fails entirely.
In this essay, Jay Odenbaugh examines the controversy concerning the advocacy of ethical values in conservation biology.
In the introduction to this issue of Environmental Values on “Environment, Policy and Participation,” Harriet Bulkeley and Arthur P.J. Mol outline some features of these recent developments in participatory environmental governance, indicate some key questions that arise, and give an overview of the collection of papers in this special issue.
Rob Hart and Uwe Latacz-Lohmann analyze inconsistencies in contingent valuation surveys, which have tended to yield results that seem to go contrary to what is seen as “rational choice.”
In this article, Hub Zwart discusses the emergence of a cultivated landscape in the Netherlands.
In this essay, Marks Woods and Paul Veatch Moriatry try to answer two philosophical questions in order to develop and enact sensible policies: (1) What exactly makes a species native or exotic, and (2) What values are at stake?
The concept of intrinsic value is shown to be instantiated, and defended against a range of criticisms.
Anna Davies addresses the products of a public participation exercise conducted in Luton, south-east England in order to consider what it is that “silence knows.”
Ned Hettinger argues that exotic species should not be identified as damaging species, species introduced by humans, or species originating from some other geographical location and presents an alternative characterization.