environmentalism

This paper offers a critical assessment of the green case for deliberative democracy, showing that deliberation is being asked to deliver more than it is able to.

In their paper, the authors argue that we owe a lot to Romantics, as they realised that nature only becomes a matter for ethical concern, inspiration and love when the mind and sensibility of the human observer/agent are properly attuned and receptive to its meaning.

John S. Akama, Christopher L. Lant, and G. Wesley Burnett use a political-ecological framework in the analysis of the social factors of wildlife conservation in Kenya.

In his article, Edmundo Claro argues that in-kind compensation is more acceptable than monetary payments or no compensation because people tend to understand siting conflicts more as matters of justice rather than as matters of freedom or care.

This paper extends the argument in H.L.A. Hart’s “Are there any natural rights?” to argue that there is an environmental moral right against pollution.

In this paper, Hein-Anton van der Heijden discusses Dutch politics of “New Nature.”

In this article, Joan Hoffmann presents a case study of the New York City Catskill/Delaware watershed.

This article replies to Alan Holland’s challenge to reconcile belief in non-anthropogenic intrinsic value with the poetry of John Clare and its projection onto nature of human feelings, and thus with projective humanism.

In his paper, Richard Shearman argues that a person living according to moral virtue will recognize that the nonhuman world should be valued and thus protected (at least in part) for its own sake.

Ernest Partridge discusses Alan Carter’s criticism of Thomas Schwartz’s “future persons paradox.”