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Beyond Positivist Ecology: Toward an Integrated Ecological Ethics
Science and Engineering Ethics, 2008A post-positivist understanding of ecological science and the call for an "ecological ethic" indicate the need for a radically new approach to evaluating environmental change. The positivist view of science cannot capture the essence of environmental sciences because the recent work of "reflexive" ecological modelers shows that this requires a ...
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2019
Ethics concerns how one ought to live one’s life. The aim of an ethics of ecology is to help us avoid disturbing the ecological integrity, stability and beauty of nature. This is in turn a necessary condition for bringing about ecological justice, understood as comprised of justice to both human and nonhuman organisms and systems.
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Ethics concerns how one ought to live one’s life. The aim of an ethics of ecology is to help us avoid disturbing the ecological integrity, stability and beauty of nature. This is in turn a necessary condition for bringing about ecological justice, understood as comprised of justice to both human and nonhuman organisms and systems.
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Ecological reasoning: Ethical alternatives
Ecological Economics, 1998Abstract This paper presents some ideas of Russian philosophers and scientists of the 19th–20th centuries, concerned with ethical, economic and ecological problems. Their common feature is the anti-utilitarian, altruistic and often even utopian approach to reality.
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International Journal of Social Economics, 1998
Reports that while overconsumption of the world’s natural resources is a problem in developed nations, it is population growth and biological resource depletion that are the bane of developing nations. Uses India as an example for discussing biodiversity, natural resource issues and ecosystem function in an Asian context.
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Reports that while overconsumption of the world’s natural resources is a problem in developed nations, it is population growth and biological resource depletion that are the bane of developing nations. Uses India as an example for discussing biodiversity, natural resource issues and ecosystem function in an Asian context.
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Environmental Values, 1994
Pantheism is a metaphysical and religious position. Broadly defined it is the view that (1) “God is everything and everything is God … the world is either identical with God or in some way a self-expression of his nature” (H.P. Owen). Similarly, it is the view that (2) everything that exists constitutes a ‘unity’ and this all-inclusive unity is in ...
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Pantheism is a metaphysical and religious position. Broadly defined it is the view that (1) “God is everything and everything is God … the world is either identical with God or in some way a self-expression of his nature” (H.P. Owen). Similarly, it is the view that (2) everything that exists constitutes a ‘unity’ and this all-inclusive unity is in ...
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Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 2010
Jainism advocates the practice of nonviolence (ahimsa), combining a strict ascetic practice with a view that life pervades all beings, including elements that are considered inert in other worldviews. Many Jainas are by translating this interpretation of the world into the broader arena of ecological ethics.
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Jainism advocates the practice of nonviolence (ahimsa), combining a strict ascetic practice with a view that life pervades all beings, including elements that are considered inert in other worldviews. Many Jainas are by translating this interpretation of the world into the broader arena of ecological ethics.
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Weed Science, 1998
Weed Scientists, like many other agricultural scientists and natural resource land managers, often engage in debate with other members of society about values and perceptions of food and fiber production. The focus of the debate is usually on the tools and tactics to grow crops, produce wood, or manage grazing land.
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Weed Scientists, like many other agricultural scientists and natural resource land managers, often engage in debate with other members of society about values and perceptions of food and fiber production. The focus of the debate is usually on the tools and tactics to grow crops, produce wood, or manage grazing land.
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XV. Process Philosophy and Ecological Ethics
2008We have now reached a peculiar state in the debate on ethics and ecology. In one sense the environmentalists are winning. Although there are powerful dissidents, there is now a general consensus that ecological destruction on a global scale is a major threat to the future of civilization, if not of humanity.
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Biodiversity and Conservation, 1995
This paper describes the general structure of an environmental philosophy. There can be many such philosophies, and those with their roots in economic theory have been extensively studied recently. Specific examples cited in the paper include the work of David Pearce and Robert Goodin.
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This paper describes the general structure of an environmental philosophy. There can be many such philosophies, and those with their roots in economic theory have been extensively studied recently. Specific examples cited in the paper include the work of David Pearce and Robert Goodin.
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