environmentalism

This paper considers—and rejects—some of the more usual understandings of animal suffering.

In his paper, Dan Greenwood tries to give an ecological response to Austrian economics.

Richard B. Harris discusses China’s policies in wildlife conservation, particularly with regard to endangered species to suggest that Western criticisms of Chinese utilitarian attitudes are inappropriate, ineffective, and possibly counter-productive.

Anne Chapman presents the world and the earth in the thought of Hannah Arendt.

In his paper, Simon P. James reconsiders Buddhist envrionmental ethics.

This paper examines the mentalities associated with the transformation of “nature” into urban life in industrial societies, with particular reference to the conversion of rainwater into tap water. It argues that industrial technologies dissociate urban dwellers from the natural environment upon which they depend.

This article comments on Katie McShanes theories on convergence and noninstrumental value.

In this paper, the author explains both the causes and solution to anti-environmental attitudes within the framework of Hegel’s master-slave dialectic.

This paper addresses the question of general environmental interests through two case studies in Australian local government and argues there are at least three factors that affect the ability of notionally deliberative arrangements to deliver outcomes that appear favourable to the natural environment.

This paper examines the contestation of two forms of environmentalism, institutional ecomodernism versus a grassroots ecopopulism within the context of the ongoing dispute between a local community in the west of Ireland and both multinationals and the state, who are attempting to run gas pipelines from the Atlantic Corrib Field through the rural community’s lands.