Michael Everett examines how environmental movements develop and how they deal with economic counterforces and motivate political actors to pass effective environmental regulations.
William Aiken examines the tradition of human rights and their role in our currently increasing environmental awareness.
David Pearce analyzes the features and possible outcome of green economics.
Economics and contemporary ethical theory must come to terms with the fact that not everything from consumer goods to endangered species can be given a value in order to make them comparable.
A new perception of time is needed to help predict the long term effects of climate change on the environment as well as on human social systems.
Perhaps it is a feature of environmental history in particular that our origins and our past stories shape our interests and our fields of enquiry in myriad ways. Many of the “tracks” in this volume are not well-trodden, and they lead us through a landscape that is mutable and as yet uncharted.
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Should environmental philosophers—or practical conservationists—focus their attentions on particular living creatures, or on the community of which they, and we, are part?
A narrative of natural progression for environmentalism, from modest beginnings to a global force with the promise of a more sustainable future, is unconvincing in the early twenty-first century. In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Frank Uekoetter discusses the position of the environmental movement in society.
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An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigates the various approaches and research fields of environmental history.
