"Does the Convention on Biodiversity Safeguard Biological Diversity?"
Frank G. Mueller attempts to assess and evaluate some of the economic implications of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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"Ecology: Scientific, Deep and Feminist"
Markus J. Peterson and Tarla Rai Peterson make an argument for the synergy between deep, feminist, and scientific ecology towards improving environmental policy.
Playing the Matrix: The Fate of Biocultural Diversity in Community Governance and Management of Protected Areas
This article assesses the merits of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Protected Areas Matrix, and asks whether we are destroying endogenous processes that generate biocultural diversity in our quest to conserve it.
Shaped by the Imagination: Myths of Water, Women, and Purity
Our notions of water are closely linked to the female body and to discourses of objectification and control. It is this critical interlacing of ideas about gender, purity, and power that makes water intensely political.
Ubiquitous Mining: The Spatial Patterns of Limestone Quarrying in Late Nineteenth-Century Rhineland
Haumann looks at the spatial patterns of open-pit limestone mining in the Mettmann district of Germany and tries to explain why these “holes” are in the places they are and why they took the shape they did.
“Our Only World”—An American Vision
The photo exhibition “Our Only World,” opened at the Smithsonian Institution in 1974, is conceivably the first example of a photo exhibition in which a national government consciously employed photographic eco-images to emphasize the complexity of environmentalism and to sanction specific behavioral patterns.
"Environmental Valuation: Some Problems of Wrong Questions and Misleading Answers"
Jack L. Knetsch discusses the contingent valuation of people’s willingness to pay in relation to environmental valuation.
"'Sustainable Development': Is it a Useful Concept?"
Wilfred Beckerman discusses “sustainable development” and “sustainability” in relation to welfare maximization.
"How the Tail Wags the Dog: How Value Judgments Determine Ecological Science"
Shrader-Frechette and McCoy use examples related to preservation versus development, hunting versus animal rights, and controversies over pest control, to show that, because ecology is conceptually and theoretically underdetermined, environmental values often influence the practice of ecological science.
"Cabbages and Kings: The Ethics and Aesthetics of New Forestry"
Alan MacQuillan discusses the advent of new forestry in the United States as representing a traumatic shift in the philosophy of national forestry praxis, a broadening of values to include aesthetics and sustainability of natural ecological process.