- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Nuclear and radioactivity studies
- Risk Perception and Management
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- African Studies and Geopolitics
- Theology and Philosophy of Evil
- Radioactive contamination and transfer
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- French Historical and Cultural Studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- German Colonialism and Identity Studies
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Race, Genetics, and Society
Bath Spa University
2015-2018
Keele University
2010-2013
Lancaster University
2005
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider and compare different ways using numbers value aspects nature-beyond-the-human through case analysis ecological natural capital accounting practices in the UK that create standardised numerical-economic values for beyond-human natures. In addition, contrast underlying ontological ethical assumptions these arithmetical approaches with those associated Pythagorean nature-numbering fractal geometry. doing so, draw out distinctions between...
An extension of Alasdair MacIntyre's concept ‘virtues acknowledged dependence', to include relationships with the non-human world, offers an organising principle for environmental virtue ethics. It situates ecological among more traditional virtues inter-human relationships, and may thereby contribute ethical reconciliation policies aimed at encouraging those protecting freedoms required personal autonomy. Within this eudaimonist framework, be understood promoted as directly contributing a good life.
Land-use planning in England and Wales has been reluctant to embrace grassroots ‘low impact development’ projects, which are often based at least part on principles of permaculture. This reluctance, the system’s concept sustainable development, examined against wider global background development discourse politics. Development, particularly when understood as a transitive process, routinely frustrated people’s efforts ‘dwell land’. justified by appeal alleged detrimental effect human...
The Paris Agreement was a success only for the carbon traders, sequestrators and geoengineers who are now expected to ‘balance emissions with removals’ by 2050, against background of continued economic growth. If this is sustainable development, it indeed discredited. But problem ‘sustainable development’ paradigm, not idea sustainability. UN's Sustainable Development Goals explicitly call intensified growth clearly incompatible allegedly overarching goal ecological To aim at very different...
Abstract Theorists of liberal neutrality, including in this context David Miller, claim that it is unjust for environmental policy to privilege a particular conception the good by appealing normative principles derived from any substantive human flourishing. However, analysis Miller's arguments reveals inability procedural justice thus understood adequately engage with complex and contested issue relationship between beings rest world. attempt distinguish categories public goods generally,...