In response to escalating environmental crises such as climate change and forest decline, many colleges and universities across the West are developing a variety of on-the-ground action-oriented ...

Environmental-studies programs are a mess, says Robert L. Chapman, an associate professor of philosophy and coordinator of the environmental-studies program at Pace University. They “are designed with ...

Glenn Albrecht presenting on solastalgia and the Symbiocene. Source: Ilan Kelman Environmental psychology is busy these days, addressing the major environmental and social changes we are all ...

The philosophy of the environment, often referred to as environmental philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that seeks to address fundamental questions about the relationship between humans and the ...

What ethical perspective should inform environmental policy making in areas such as climate change and biodiversity? Is an economic approach founded on utilitarianism ethically defensible? Aa Aa Aa ...

Ecological Restoration and the Question of Values Environmental Ethics and Encountering the Local Landscape Risks and Benefits of a "New Wilderness Paradigm" ...

What can we learn from Easter Island and the collapse of other civilisations? Environmental philosopher, political activist and ecofeminist Val Plumwood believes that we need a new ethics to bring us ...

A timely and vital new volume in the emerging literature of environmental philosophy—Hosting Earth: Facing the Climate Emergency—draws on art, science, and politics to explore alternatives to the ...

This course uses philosophy to explore contemporary environmental issues, such as whether our concern for environmental well-being can be adequately grounded in a concern for human well-being, and ...