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Aesthetic and Historical Values – Their Difference and Why It Matters Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Levi Tenen
Aesthetic and historical values are commonly distinguished from each other. Yet there has not been sustained discussion of what, precisely, differs between them. In fact, recent scholarship has focused on various ways in which the two are related. I argue, though, that historical value can differ in an interesting way from aesthetic value and that this difference may have significant implications for
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The Spiralling Economy: Connecting Marxian Theory with Ecological Economics Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Crelis Rammelt
The capitalist mode of production and consumption is caught in a double bind: its expansion destabilises natural systems and fails to curb social inequities, while slowdown destabilises the inner workings of the economic system itself. To better understand what is happening in this phase of instability, this article proposes a System Dynamics representation that combines elements of Georgescu-Roegen's
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Days of Decision Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Clive L. Spash
Crises provide moments for reflection, rethinking, seeing the potential for restructuring, and making decisions to change everyday practices. Coronavirus has exposed the structure of the dominant economic system and its inequities. The response to the social crisis is a call for relating to other humans regardless of colour, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age or religion. The response to the ecological
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Global Convergence and National Disparities in the Structure of Environmental Attitudes and Their Linkage to Pro-Environmental Behaviours Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Hui-Ju Kuo, Yang-chih Fu
Although similar environmental issues are present across the globe, residents of different countries vary in the extent to which they are concerned about and act upon these issues. Drawing on data from the 2010 Environment module of the International Social Survey Programme, this study tests the structural comparability of environmental attitudes across 32 countries and examines how pro-environmental
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Mapping Moral Pluralism in Behavioural Spillovers: A Cross-Disciplinary Account of the Multiple Ways in Which We Engage in Moral Valuing Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Michael Vincent, Ann-Kathrin Koessler
In this article, we reflect critically on how moral actions are categorised in some recent studies on moral spillovers. Based on classic concepts from moral philosophy, we present a framework to categorise moral actions. We argue that with a finer classification of the moral values, associated behaviour is better understood, and this understanding helps to identify the conditions under which moral
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What Counts as Success? Wider Implications of Achieving Planning Permission in a Low-Impact Ecovillage Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Fiona Shirani, Christopher Groves, Karen Henwood, Nick Pidgeon, Erin Roberts
The need for energy system change in order to address the energy 'trilemma' of security, affordability and sustainability is well documented and requires the active involvement of individuals, families and communities who currently engage with these systems and technologies. Alongside technical developments designed to address these challenges, alternative ways of living are increasingly being envisaged
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Towards a Process Epistemology for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Maria Mancilla Garcia, Tilman Hertz, Maja Schlüter
This paper proposes an epistemological approach to analyse social-ecological systems from a process perspective in order to better tackle the co-constitution of the social and the ecological and th ...
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Incumbency, Trust and the Monsanto Effect: Stakeholder Discourses on Greenhouse Gas Removal Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Emily Cox, Elspeth Spence, Nick Pidgeon
This paper explores factors shaping perceptions of Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) among st a range of informed stakeholders, with a particular focus on their role in future social and political systems. We find considerable ambivalence regarding the role of climate targets and incumbent interests in relation to GGR. Our results suggest that GGR is symbolic of a fundamental debate – occurring not only
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How Far is Degrowth a Really Revolutionary Counter Movement to Neoliberalism? Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Dorothea Elena Schoppek
Capitalism is often modernised and stabilised by its very critics. Gramsci called this paradox a 'passive revolution'. What are the pitfalls through which critique becomes absorbed? This question is taken up using a Cultural Political Economy approach for analysing the resistant potential of 'degrowth discourses' against the neoliberal hegemony. Degrowth advocates an economy without growth in order
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The Revolution will not be Corporatised! Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 Clive L. Spash
The plain speaking of the new environmental movements places emphasis on an imminent ecological crisis, but the 'new' environmentalists appear to lack insight into what specific action is required, to what they stand in opposition and more generally the political and economic context within which they (as social movements) are operating. The fact is that political and economic elites around the world
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The Ethics of Human Intervention on Behalf of 'Others' Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2020-02-01 Claudia Carter
I regularly pass several homeless persons surviving on the streets even in winter. One sits on a folded scrap of a blanket leaning against a wall looking thin, pale and resigned, doing some calligraphy of messages on card for those who want them. Almost everyone walks quickly past, some manoeuvring to the opposite side of the wide pavement, others almost treading on some of their sparse belongings
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Beyond Ecofascism? Far-Right Ecologism (FRE) as a Framework for Future Inquiries Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Balša Lubarda
The enduring and consistent rise of the far right has enabled its representatives to affect environmental debates at a larger scale. Although such incursions are often labeled ‘ecofascist', the term itself term may be insufficient to account for the complexity of this intersection. Building upon existing attempts to organize such discourses in a coherent sub-ideological set, ‘far right ecologism’ (FRE)
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The Norwegian Petroleum Fund: Savings for Future Generations? Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Marianne Takle
The Norwegian state-owned Petroleum Fund’s market value is more than one trillion US dollars. The Norwegian state has become one of the world’s largest stockowners. The Fund was established in 1990 and in 2006 it was renamed the ‘Government Pension Fund Global’, as savings for future generations. What kind of values form the basis for describing the Petroleum Fund in this way? This article shows that
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Valuing Nature for Wellbeing: Narratives of Socio-ecological Change in Dynamic Intertidal Landscapes Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Erin Roberts, Merryn Thomas, Nick Pidgeon, Karen Henwood
Contributing to the cultural ecosystem services literature, this paper draws on the in-depth place narratives of two coastal case-study sites in Wales (UK) to explore how people experience and understand landscape change in relation to their sense of place, and what this means for their wellbeing. Our place narratives reveal that participants understand coastal/intertidal landscapes as complex socio-ecological
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Green Populism? Action and Mortality in the Anthropocene Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 William Davies
The rise of ‘populism’, often conflated with authoritarianism, is frequently viewed as being antagonistic to environmental values, where the latter are associated with ‘liberal elites’. However, with a less pejorative understanding of populism, we might be able to identify elements within that can be usefully channelled and mobilised towards the urgent rescue of human and non-human life. This paper
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Materialism, Awareness of Environmental Consequences and Environmental Philanthropic Behaviour Among Potential Donors Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Piia Lundberg, Annukka Vainio, Ann Ojala, Anni Arponen
We explored the relationship between materialism, awareness of environmental consequences and environmental philanthropic behavior with a web survey (n=2,079) targeted at potential donors living in Finland. Environmental philanthropic behavior comprise of donations of money and/or time to environmental charities. The awareness of environmental consequences was divided into egoistic, altruistic and
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Atheism in the American Animal Rights Movement: An Invisible Majority Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Corey Lee Wrenn
Previous research has alluded to the predominance of atheism in participant pools in the Nonhuman Animal rights movement (Galvin and Herzog, 1992; Guither, 1998) as well as the correlation between atheism and support for anti-speciesism (Gabriel et al., 2012; The Humane Society, 2014), but no study to date has independently examined this demographic. This article presents a profile of 210 atheists
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Disturbed Earth: Conceptions of the Deep Underground in Shale Extraction Deliberations in the US and UK Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Tristan Partridge, Merryn Thomas, Nick Pidgeon, Barbara Harthorn
Hydraulic fracturing ('fracking') has enabled the recovery of previously inaccessible resources and rendered new areas of the underground 'productive'. While a number of studies in the US and UK have examined public attitudes toward fracking and its various impacts, how people conceptualise the deep underground itself has received less attention. We argue that views on resources, risk and the deep
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Labour’s Hidden Soul: Religion at the Intersection of Labour and the Environment Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 David Uzzell, Nora Räthzel
The study examines the intersection of individual life-histories, organisational histories and societal histories and reveals how religion, in several different expressions, serves to provide a con ...
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The Reification of Non-Human Nature Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2019-08-01 Teea Kortetmäki
Reification is a concept of critical theory that denotes certain problematic, habitualised forms of objectification. In this article, I examine whether the concept can be applied in environmental philosophy and what value it has for environmental critical theory. I begin by introducing the concept and the two senses in which reification of the non-human world has been discussed in the literature: first
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Should Environmental Ethicists Fear Moral Anti-Realism? Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2019-08-01 Anne Schwenkenbecher, Michael Rubin
Environmental ethicists have been arguing for decades that swift action to protect our natural environment is morally paramount, and that our concern for the environment should go beyond its importance for human welfare. It might be thought that the widespread acceptance of moral anti-realism would undermine the aims of environmental ethicists. One reason is that recent empirical studies purport to
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When the Grass Sings: Poetic Reason and Animal Writing Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2019-08-01 Isabel Balza
In this article I shall propose María Zambrano’s poetic reason as a suitable method for developing a knowledge of animal being. To do so, I will follow the analyses (Derrida, Coetzee) that place animal thinking in the poetic sphere, thus showing the need for a poetic/literary knowledge to make a philosophical knowledge of the animal possible. Animal writing expresses our nature in relation to animal
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Movement, Wildness and Animal Aesthetics Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2019-08-01 Tom Greaves
The key role that animals play in our aesthetic appreciation of the natural world has only gradually been highlighted in discussions in environmental aesthetics. In this paper I make use of the phenomenological notion of ‘perceptual sense’ as developed by Merleau-Ponty to argue that open-ended expressive-responsive movement is the primary aesthetic ground for our appreciation of animals. It is through
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How to Deal with Hybrids in the Anthropocene? Towards a Philosophy of Technology and Environmental Philosophy 2.0 Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Magdalena Hoły-Łuczaj, Vincent Blok
The Anthropocene overthrows classical dichotomies like technology and nature and a new class of beings emerges: hybrids. The transitive status of hybrids - which establishes an extra, separate, ‘third’ ontological category, going beyond the dichotomy between nature and technology - constitutes a significant problem for environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology since they traditionally focus
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Social Ecological Transformation, Whether You Like It or Not! Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Clive L. Spash
On a planetary level, the potential for harm by a minority of humanity, due to the scale of intensive energy and material use, is combined with destructive military technology and material, chemical and biological interventions. In popular consciousness, the power of a few to cause planetary destruction became evident with the creation of nuclear weapons. In a world where ‘competition’ in all forms
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The Paradox of Sustainable Degrowth and a Convivial Alternative Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2019-04-01 Oscar Krüger
Insofar as development implies economic growth, the term 'sustainable development' appears to some as a contradiction in terms. However, such conclusions still lack a thorough examination of the conceptual structure of the two terms between which there is a purported contradiction. In order to address this issue, the present paper scrutinises some of the assumptions which underwrite the ideologies
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Focusing on Relational Matters to Overcome Duality Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2019-04-01 Claudia Carter
I am writing this editorial from a neighbourhood in the UK’s second largest city, Birmingham, where bird song and car engines intermittently can be heard competing for attention. While my preference is for ‘living in the sticks’, rather than a city, I nevertheless like Birmingham for its generally down to earth, friendly people, and its multicultural, innovative, collaborative spirit. Still, I struggle
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Unravelling Reasons for the Non-Establishment of Protected Areas: Justification Regimes and Principles of Worth in a Swiss National Park Project Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2019-04-01 Annina Helena Michel, Norman Backhaus
This article engages with pragmatic sociology to understand an environmental dispute and its underlying moral issues in a direct-democratic and bottom-up setting. The non-establishment of a planned national park in the Swiss Alps serves as a case study to analyse principles of worth presented in national park negotiations. We point to the complex nature of conservation negotiations and argue that loosely
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Reconciling Ecological and Democratic Values: Recent Perspectives on Ecological Democracy Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2019-02-01 David Schlosberg, Karin Bäckstrand, Jonathan Pickering
The idea of ecological democracy is a promising one, a combination of two sets of appealing core normative values – environmental concern and engagement on the one hand, and democratic legitimacy and procedure on the other. Yet, these two sets of values are quite different, and not so easily reconciled. Theorists of ecological democracy have long struggled with this dual (and duelling) set of promises
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Solving for Pattern: An Ecological Approach to Reshape the Human Building Instinct Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Geetanjali Date, Deborah Dutta, Sanjay Chandrasekharan
1 Solving for pattern: an ecological approach to reshape the human building instinct Geetanjali Rajesh Date, Deborah Dutta, and Sanjay Chandrasekharan (All authors contributed equally) Abstract The human species' adaptive advantage is driven by its ability to build new material structures and artifacts. Engineering is the modern manifestation of this building instinct, and its advent has made the construction
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‘Cornwallism’ and Arguments against Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Karin E. Björnberg, Helena Röcklinsberg, Per Sandin
Opposition against greenhouse gas emissions reductions is strong among some conservative Christian groups, especially in the United States. In this paper, we identify five scripture-based arguments ...
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How Demanding is Our Climate Duty? An Application of the No-Harm Principle to Individual Emissions Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Augustin Fragnière
This article provides theoretical foundations to the widespread intuition that an individual duty to reduce one's carbon emissions should not be overly demanding, and should leave some space to personal life-projects. It does so by looking into the moral structure of aggregative problems such as climate change, and argues that contributing to climate change is less wrong than causing the same amount
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Engaging the Imagination: 'New Nature Writing', Collective Politics and the Environmental Crisis Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Kate Oakley, Jonathan Ward, Ian Christie
This paper explores the potential of ‘new nature writing’ – a literary genre currently popular in the UK – as a kind of arts activism, in particular, how it might engage with the environmental crisis and lead to a kind of collective politics. We note the limitations of the genre, notably the reproduction of class, gender and ethnic hierarchies, the emphasis on nostalgia and loss, and the stress on
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In the Name of Science and Technology: The Post-Political Environmental Debate and the Taranto Steel Plant (Italy) Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-10-01 Lidia Greco, Francesco Bagnardi
This article contributes to the environmental justice debate by analysing the case of the ILVA steel plant in Taranto, Italy. It accounts for the radical polarisation of the public debate between industrialists and environmentalists. These dominant perspectives are polarised but not politicised. In the reading of the crisis, both fronts adopt similar techno-scientific arguments while failing to problematise
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Who Should Pay for Climate Adaptation? Public Attitudes and the Financing of Flood Protection in Florida Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-10-01 Samuel Merrill, Jack Kartez, Karen Langbehn, Frank Muller-Karger, Catherine J. Reynolds
An investigation of public support for coastal adaptation options and public finance options in Florida evaluated stakeholder judgments and how they changed through a participatory engagement process. The study found that public finance mechanisms that imposed fiscal burdens on those who directly benefit from hazard reduction were rated as more acceptable than others. Significantly, visualisations
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Spatial Framing, Existing Associations and Climate Change Beliefs Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-10-01 Adrian Brügger, Nicholas F. Pidgeon
Tailoring climate change messages to a particular spatial scale (e.g. a specific country or region) is often seen as an effective way to frame communication about climate change. Yet the empirical evidence for the effectiveness of this strategy is scarce, and little is known about how recipients react to spatially-framed climate change messages. To learn more about the effects and usefulness of different
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Pathways to Policy and Management: Knowledge, Process and Venue Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-10-01 Norman Dandy
Environmental knowledge and values permeate policy and management processes in numerous ways, with some forms often having a stronger impact than others. These processes can be relatively slow and long-term. Some, however, are more immediate and rapidly evolving. Many of us engaged in contemporary research on environmental matters in the UK are concerned with the potential shape of environmental management
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Non-Epistemic Values in Adaptive Management: Framing Possibilities in the Legal Context of Endangered Columbia River Salmon Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-10-01 Shana Lee Hirsch, Jerrold Long
Courts have determined that adaptive management does not satisfy the Endangered Species Act's requirement to use the 'best available science'. This is due, in part, to the failure to recognise the role of non-epistemic values in science. We examine the role of values in the legal controversy over the scientific reports and adaptive management plans for endangered salmon in the Columbia River Basin
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New Nature in Old Landscapes: Some Dutch Examples of the Relation Between History, Heritage and Ecological Restoration Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-08-01 Hans Renes
For most of the twentieth century, nature conservation activities were connected to the protection of agrarian landscapes. During the late 1980s, the introduction of the concept of ‘new wilderness’ offered new opportunities for ecologists, but at the same time produced conflicts with traditional nature and landscape conservation. At the heart of the conflict were different visions of the relation between
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Rewilding in Layered Landscapes as a Challenge to Place Identity Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-08-01 Martin Drenthen
Rewilding is an increasingly popular strategy in landscape management, yet it is also controversial, especially when applied in culturally ‘layered’ landscapes. In this paper I examine what is morally at stake in debates between proponents of rewilding and those that see traditional cultural landscapes as worthy of protection. I will argue that rewilding should not only be understood as a conservation
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Abandoning or Reimagining a Cultural Heartland? Understanding and Responding to Rewilding Conflicts in Wales - the Case of the Cambrian Wildwood Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-08-01 Sophie Wynne-Jones, Graham Strouts, George Holmes
This paper is about rewilding and the tensions it involves. Rewilding is a relatively novel approach to nature conservation, which seeks to be proactive and ambitious in the face of continuing environmental decline. Whilst definitions of rewilding place a strong emphasis on non-human agency, it is an inescapably human aspiration resulting in a range of social conflicts. The paper focuses on the case
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Facing the Truth or Living a Lie: Conformity, Radicalism and Activism Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 Clive L. Spash
People who speak up about the unpleasant realities of environmental degradation, capitalist exploitation and the growth economy are likely to be criticised for 'negative framing' - while corporations undermine truths by casting them as social constructs with no objective validity. Environmentalists increasingly conform to the idea of telling nice stories using abstract metaphors rather than seeking
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Reframing Tacit Human-Nature Relations: An Inquiry into Process Philosophy and the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-04-01 Roope Oskari Kaaronen
To combat the ecological crisis, fundamental change is required in how humans perceive nature. This paper proposes that the human–nature bifurcation, a deeply entrenched and environmentally pathological metaphysical mental model, stems from embodied and tacitly held substance-biased belief systems. Process philosophy can aid us, inter alia, in providing an alternative framework for reinterpreting this
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Varieties of Non-Anthropocentricism: Duty, Beauty, Knowledge and Reality Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-04-01 Marion Hourdequin
The complexity of understanding and navigating human–nature relations calls for diverse angles of philosophical approach, and the articles in this issue exemplify that diversity, engaging questions of ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics and epistemology. They are connected, however, by a thread that runs through environmental philosophy: a desire to broaden or reframe understandings of humans’ places in
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Where is Goal 18? The Need for Biocultural Heritage in the Sustainable Development Goals Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-02-01 Alexandria K. Poole
On 25 September 2015, the seventieth session of the General Assembly in the United Nations approved new Sustainable Development Goals building upon the vision of the original Millennium Development Goals. I argue that this post-2015 agenda still neglects fundamental qualities of cultural sovereignty that are key to maintaining sustainable practices, values and lifestyle habits. No single goal emphasises
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Self-Identity and Sense of Place: Some Thoughts Regarding Climate Change Adaptation Policy Formulation Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-02-01 Charles N. Herrick
The formulation and implementation of policies addressing the need to adapt to climate change can be difficult due to the long-term, uncertain nature of localised climate change impacts and associated vulnerabilities. Difficulties are intensified because policy interventions can involve high costs, foregone opportunity and changes to people's way of life. Factors such as these can spur an uncritical
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Widening the Evaluative Space for Ecosystem Services: A Taxonomy of Plural Values and Valuation Methods Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-02-01 Paola Arias-Arévalo, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Berta Martín-López, Mario Pérez-Rincón
Researchers working in the field of ecosystem services (ES) have long acknowledged the importance of recognising multiple values in ecosystems and biodiversity. Yet the operationalisation of value pluralism in ES assessments remains largely elusive. The aim of this research is to present a taxonomy of values and valuation methods to widen the evaluative space for ES. First, we present our preanalytic
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The Naturalisation of Growth: Marx, the Regulation Approach and Bourdieu Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-02-01 Max Koch
This paper analyses the hegemony of the growth paradigm through the example of its naturalisation in capitalist production and consumption relations. Applying a combination of theoretical elements from the Marxian tradition, the Regulation approach and Bourdieusian sociology, emphasis is placed on how the growth imperative is reflected in people's minds and bodies. It becomes hegemonic because it appears
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Assimilation, Blind Spots and Coproduced Crises Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2018-02-01 Claudia Carter
Core to Environmental Values is thought-provoking interdisciplinary discussion on citizen-consumer tensions, individual agency and social behavioural change, and human–nature relationships, often with direct reference to accelerated, human induced, environmental and climate change. This issue includes contributions that critically examine how the concept of economic growth has deep, culturally embedded
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Fairness in Allocating the Global Emissions Budget Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 David R. Morrow
One central question of climate justice is how to fairly allocate remaining 'carbon space' or a global emissions budget. Some commentators hold that the idea of fairness is hopelessly equivocal on this point. Others claim that we need a complete theory of distributive justice to answer the question. This paper argues that on the contrary, given only weak assumptions about fairness, we can show that
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Sharing Responsibility for Divesting from Fossil Fuels Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 Eric S. Godoy
Governments have been slow to address climate change. If non-governmental agents share a responsibility in light of the slow pace of government action then it is a collective responsibility. I examine three models of collective responsibility, especially Iris Young's social connection model, and assess their value for identifying a collective, among all emitters, that can share responsibility. These
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Skewed Vulnerabilities and Moral Corruption in Global Perspectives on Climate Engineering Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 Wylie Carr, Christopher J. Preston
Ethicists and social scientists alike have advocated for the inclusion of vulnerable populations in research and decision-making on climate engineering. Unfortunately, there have been few efforts to do so. The research presented in this paper was designed to build knowledge about how vulnerable populations think about climate engineering. The goal of this manuscript is to bring the ethics literature
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Texturing Waste: Attachment and Identity in Every-Day Consumption and Waste Practices Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 Gareth Thomas, Christopher Groves, Karen Henwood, Nick Pidgeon
Waste has often been a target of literature and policy promoting pro-environmental behaviour. However, little attention has been paid to how subjects interpret and construct waste in their daily lives. In this article we develop a synthesis of practice theory and psycho-social concepts of attachment and transitional space to explore how biographically patterned relationships and attachments to practice
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What is Wrong with Nimbys? Renewable Energy, Landscape Impacts and Incommensurable Values Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2017-12-01 Anne Schwenkenbecher
Local opposition to infrastructure projects that implement renewable energy (RE), such as wind farms, is often strong even if state-wide support for RE is strikingly high. The slogan 'Not In My Backyard' (NIMBY) has become synonymous for this kind of protest. This paper revisits the question of what might be wrong with those who are NIMBYs about RE projects, and how best to address them. I will argue
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Speaking About Weeds: Indigenous Elders' Metaphors for Invasive Species and Their Management Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2017-10-01 Thomas Michael Bach, Brendon M.H. Larson
Our language and metaphors about environmental issues reflect and affect how we perceive and manage them. Discourse on invasive species is dominated by aggressive language of aliens and invasion, which contributes to the use of war-like metaphors to promote combative control. This language has been criticised for undermining scientific objectivity, misleading discourse, and restricting how invasive
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Nonhuman Animals as Property Holders: An Exploration of the Lockean Labour-Mixing Account Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2017-10-01 Josh Milburn
Recent proposals in political philosophy concerning nonhuman animals as property-holders - by John Hadley and Steve Cooke - have focused on the interests that nonhuman animals have in access to and use of their territories. The possibility that such rights might be grounded on the basis of a Lockean (that is, labour-mixing) account of property has been rejected. In this paper, I explore four criticisms
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A Teleological Approach to the Wicked Problem of Managing Utría National Park Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2017-10-01 Nicolás Acosta García, Katharine N. Farrell, Hannu I. Heikkinen, Simo Sarkki
Utria National Park is a remote biodiversity hotspot in Colombia. It encompasses ancestral territories of the Embera indigenous peoples and borders territories of Afro-descendant communities in El Valle. We explore environmental value conflicts regarding the use of the park, describing them as a Wicked Problem that has no clear solution. Juxtaposing how the territory is perceived by different communities
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Governance, Participation and Local Perceptions of Protected Areas: Unwinding Traumatic Nature in the Blouberg Mountain Range Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2017-10-01 Natasha Louise Constant, Sandra Bell
Local perceptions of protected areas are important for conservation and the sustainability of protected areas. We undertook qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork to explore relationships between people and protected areas in the Blouberg mountain range, South Africa. The history of land use and current relationships with protected areas reveal legacies of marginalisation and immiseration, giving credence
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Environmentalism and Democracy in the Age of Nationalism and Corporate Capitalism Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2017-08-01 Clive L. Spash
Environmental commodification, trading and offsetting are business as usual approaches to environmental policy. There is also consensus across political divides about the need for economic growth. Many environmental NGOs have become apologists for corporate self-regulation, market mechanisms, carbon pricing/trading and biodiversity offsetting/banking, while themselves commercialising species 'protection'
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Ableism and Disablism in the UK Environmental Movement Environmental Values (IF 2.158) Pub Date : 2017-08-01 Deborah Fenney
This article considers disabled people's involvement with the UK environmental movement. It draws on findings from qualitative research with disabled people in the UK exploring experiences of access to sustainable lifestyles. A number of experiences of disablism (the manifestation of oppression against disabled people) and ableism (assumptions and valorisations of non-disabled normality) were described
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