This article attempts to illuminate this question of what the nature of envrionmental problems is by exploring the relationship between environmental ethics, environmental problems and their solution.
Maurie J. Cohen introduces this special issue of Environmental Values.
Barbara Adam explores the temporal dimension of risks associated with the production, trade, and consumption of food.
Roy Brouwer, Neil Powe, R. Kerry Turner, Ian J. Bateman, and Ian H. Langford outline support for both the individual WTP based approach and a participatory social deliberation approach to inform environmental decision-making processes.
This article looks at “acclimatisation societies,” which first appeared in the nineteenth century
In this short article, Rob Nixon reflects on a visit to South Africa and the relationship of the various kinds of inequality present in societies.
This article looks at neuropathology, which may shed light on the actions of individuals in power. Do leaders show a tendency to have certain neurological traits?
This article discusses the “cognitive turn” in history and the usefulness of the cognitive sciences for a history of emotions and representation.
This article outlines a “microontology” of social life on Earth. This ontology attends to the majority of relations on our planet: those amongst microbes.
Bodily adaptations have been integrated into human culture in a co-evolutionary process, such as the social and regulating function of the moral emotion shame. The ability to feel shame and physiological markers of it, such as blushing, are hardwired, but they are used in many different and sometimes even contradicting ways in specific cultures.
