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Michelle Maloney - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the need for ecological ethics in a new ecological economics
Ecological Economics, 2020Co-Authors: Haydn Washington, Michelle MaloneyAbstract:Abstract Neoclassical economics has been dominated by Anthropocentrism. We argue that much of ecological economics (EE) is now also dominated by this. EE should now break-free from Anthropocentrism, including the commodification of nature. We suggest a ‘new’ ecological economics which foregrounds an ecocentric worldview, ecological ethics and ecojustice. These can assist society to reach a truly sustainable future where it accepts nature’s intrinsic value and extends respect to the nonhuman world. Models associated with EE are considered in terms of their approach to ecological limits and equity, as well as ethics. The paper concludes the only EE model that comes close to foregrounding ecological ethics is the steady state economy. Most of the others explicitly (or implicitly) retain an anthropocentric bias. Four approaches to ‘moving forward’ are suggested: achieving ecocentrism; advocating Earth jurisprudence; supporting ecojustice; and dealing ethically with the commodification of nature. We argue that a rejuvenated EE should de-commodify nature. Hence we should consider ‘People’s Contributions to Nature’, rather than just ‘Nature’s Contributions to People’. For both practical and ethical reasons, the paper concludes that EE needs to reevaluate its worldview and ethics. A possible research agenda is suggested that could help integrate ecological ethics with ecological economics.
Carina Lundmark - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the new ecological paradigm revisited anchoring the nep scale in environmental ethics
Environmental Education Research, 2007Co-Authors: Carina LundmarkAbstract:The New Environmental or Ecological Paradigm (NEP) is widely acknowledged as a reliable multiple‐item scale to capture environmental attitudes or beliefs. It has been used in statistical analyses for almost 30 years, primarily by psychologists, but also by political scientists, sociologists and geographers. The scale's theoretical foundation is, however, seldom discussed and not comprehensively specified. This article explores the environmental ethics that underlies the scale, analysing which ethical positions on human—nature relations the scale seem to match. The study shows that pronounced forms of Anthropocentrism are well captured by the scale, while the environmental position is ‘shallow’ rather than ‘deep green’ and misses crucial elements of the contemporary environmental ethics debate.
Haydn Washington - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the need for ecological ethics in a new ecological economics
Ecological Economics, 2020Co-Authors: Haydn Washington, Michelle MaloneyAbstract:Abstract Neoclassical economics has been dominated by Anthropocentrism. We argue that much of ecological economics (EE) is now also dominated by this. EE should now break-free from Anthropocentrism, including the commodification of nature. We suggest a ‘new’ ecological economics which foregrounds an ecocentric worldview, ecological ethics and ecojustice. These can assist society to reach a truly sustainable future where it accepts nature’s intrinsic value and extends respect to the nonhuman world. Models associated with EE are considered in terms of their approach to ecological limits and equity, as well as ethics. The paper concludes the only EE model that comes close to foregrounding ecological ethics is the steady state economy. Most of the others explicitly (or implicitly) retain an anthropocentric bias. Four approaches to ‘moving forward’ are suggested: achieving ecocentrism; advocating Earth jurisprudence; supporting ecojustice; and dealing ethically with the commodification of nature. We argue that a rejuvenated EE should de-commodify nature. Hence we should consider ‘People’s Contributions to Nature’, rather than just ‘Nature’s Contributions to People’. For both practical and ethical reasons, the paper concludes that EE needs to reevaluate its worldview and ethics. A possible research agenda is suggested that could help integrate ecological ethics with ecological economics.
Hiraide, Lydia Ayame - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Book Review: Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett
'Elsevier BV', 2021Co-Authors: Hiraide, Lydia AyameAbstract:In Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, Joshua Bennett explores how African American writers have forged a tradition that works through the figure of the non-human animal in order to assert and enact radical challenges to oppressive structures, contesting the violence of Anthropocentrism and antiblackness and providing tools for conceiving of interspecies relationships anew. Carefully constructed with a lyrical lilt to its sharp analyses, this book is an important contribution to the emerging space in which black literary studies, animality studies and ecocriticism converge
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Book review: Being property once myself: blackness and the end of man by Joshua Bennett
London School of Economics and Political Science, 2021Co-Authors: Hiraide, Lydia AyameAbstract:In Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, Joshua Bennett explores how African American writers have forged a tradition that works through the figure of the non-human animal in order to assert and enact radical challenges to oppressive structures, contesting the violence of Anthropocentrism and antiblackness and providing tools for conceiving of interspecies relationships anew. Carefully constructed with a lyrical lilt to its sharp analyses, this book is an important contribution to the emerging space in which black literary studies, animality studies and ecocriticism converge, writes Lydia Ayame Hiraide
Colleen F Moore - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ecocentrism and Anthropocentrism moral reasoning about ecological commons dilemmas
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2001Co-Authors: Katherine V Kortenkamp, Colleen F MooreAbstract:Abstract When do humans extend their ethical scope to include nature? Anthropocentrism and ecocentrism are two ways of understanding an extension of ethics to nature. In an anthropocentric ethic nature deserves moral consideration because how nature is treated affects humans. In an ecocentric ethic nature deserves moral consideration because nature has intrinsic value. In two experiments participants (n=91 and 84) generated moral reasoning responses to ecological moral dilemmas. The reasoning was coded as ecocentric, anthropocentric, or nonenvironmental (i.e., social contracts, truthfulness). Individual differences and situational variables were examined in relation to moral reasoning about ecological dilemmas. Pro-environmental attitudes were related to more ecocentric and anthropocentric and less nonenvironmental reasoning. The presence of information about the impact of ecological damage on the environment, especially a more “wild” environment, elicited more ecocentric reasoning, while the presence of a social commitment elicited more nonenvironmental moral reasoning. The implications of the research for conflicts over environmental commons dilemmas are discussed.