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The Environmental Constituents of Flourishing: Rethinking External Goods and the Ecological Systems that Provide Them 繁荣的环境成分:重新思考外部商品和提供它们的生态系统
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-12-04 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1848193
Kenneth Shockley
ABSTRACT It seems intuitive that human development and environmental protection should go hand in hand. But some have worried there is no framework within environmental ethics that suitably conjoins them. In this paper I suggest we approach this challenge by rethinking a very old idea, external goods. I argue that we can see the basis for the required framework if we recognize the normative significance of our natural environment in the same way Aristotle thought we needed to recognize the normative significance of our social environment. This suggests a promising means of balancing human development and environmental protection.
人类发展和环境保护应该齐头并进,这似乎是直觉。但有些人担心,环境伦理中没有合适的框架将它们结合起来。在本文中,我建议我们通过重新思考一个非常古老的概念——外部商品——来应对这一挑战。我认为,如果我们认识到自然环境的规范意义,就像亚里士多德认为我们需要认识社会环境的规范意义一样,我们就能看到所需框架的基础。这为平衡人类发展和环境保护提供了一个有希望的途径。
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引用次数: 5
New Values for New Challenges: The Emergence of Progressive Commons as a Property Regime for the 21st Century 新挑战的新价值:作为21世纪财产制度的进步公地的出现
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-12-02 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1848194
Nina Gmeiner, Stefanie Sievers-Glotzbach, Christian U. Becker
ABSTRACT Property regimes are based on fundamental values of the society or group that designs and reproduces them. This paper analyses the ethical underpinnings of Progressive Commons in comparison to the values underlying private property and traditional Commons. Against this backdrop, we discuss the potential of Progressive Commons to address major challenges in context of the twenty-first century economy. Seed Commons serve as an example. Our analysis shows that Progressive Commons respond to contemporary societal and environmental challenges by re-interpreting the classical values underlying traditional private and common property regimes, turning them to sovereignty, re-democratization, and social-ecological sustainability in the global context.
财产制度是建立在设计和复制这些制度的社会或群体的基本价值观基础之上的。本文分析了进步公地的伦理基础,并与私有财产和传统公地的价值观进行了比较。在此背景下,我们将讨论进步公地在应对21世纪经济背景下的主要挑战方面的潜力。种子公地就是一个例子。我们的分析表明,进步公地通过重新诠释传统私有和共有财产制度背后的经典价值观,将其转向主权、再民主化和全球背景下的社会生态可持续性,来应对当代社会和环境挑战。
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引用次数: 1
Justice and Fairness for Mkangawalo People: The Case of the Kilombero Large-scale Land Acquisition (LaSLA) Project in Tanzania Mkangawalo人民的正义与公平:以坦桑尼亚Kilombero大规模土地征用项目为例
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-11-25 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1848187
Ernest Nkansah‐Dwamena, Aireona Bonnie Raschke
ABSTRACT Large-scale land acquisitions (LaSLA), otherwise ‘land grabbing’ in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), raise difficult normative questions the current literature does not sufficiently explore. LaSLA is associated with development opportunities; however, it also threatens the well-being of local people because of displacement and dispossession. To investigate the processes and outcomes for LaSLA to be considered as ‘just and fair,’ we evaluate the impacts of a LaSLA project on local livelihoods in Tanzania. Specifically, we apply John Rawls’ Theory of Justice to the project and compare the results with empirical insights gained from our fieldwork. We find that LaSLA has the potential to improve the living standards of local people, we cannot consider LaSLA as just and fair because it contradicts Rawls’s principles of justice and deteriorates the livelihoods of local people. Our findings suggest that it is critical to scrutinize LaSLA investments, involve local people in decision-making, and build the capacity of host governments to negotiate better LaSLA deals.
在撒哈拉以南非洲(SSA),大规模土地征用(LaSLA),或者“土地掠夺”,提出了当前文献没有充分探讨的困难的规范问题。LaSLA与发展机会有关;然而,由于流离失所和被剥夺财产,它也威胁到当地人民的福祉。为了调查LaSLA被认为是“公正和公平”的过程和结果,我们评估了LaSLA项目对坦桑尼亚当地生计的影响。具体来说,我们将约翰·罗尔斯的正义理论应用于该项目,并将结果与我们从实地工作中获得的经验见解进行比较。我们发现LaSLA具有提高当地人民生活水平的潜力,我们不能认为LaSLA是公正和公平的,因为它与罗尔斯的正义原则相矛盾,并且恶化了当地人民的生计。我们的研究结果表明,审查LaSLA投资,让当地人参与决策,并建立东道国政府谈判更好的LaSLA交易的能力至关重要。
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引用次数: 7
When Extinction Is Warranted: Invasive Species, Suppression-Drives and the Worst-Case Scenario 当灭绝是必要的:入侵物种,抑制驱动和最坏的情况
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-11-25 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1848197
A. Thresher
ABSTRACT Most current techniques to deal with invasive species are ineffective or have highly damaging side effects. To this end suppression-drives based on clustered regularly inter-spaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR/Cas9) have been touted as a potential silver bullet for the problem, allowing for a highly focused, humane and cost-effective means of removing a target species from an environment. Suppression-drives come with serious risks, however, such that the precautionary principle seems to warrant us not deploying this technology. The focus of this paper is on one such risk – the danger of a suppression-drive escaping containment and wiping out the target species globally. Here, I argue that in most cases this risk is significant enough to warrant not using a gene-drive. In some cases, however, we can bypass the precautionary principle by using an approach that hinges on what I term the ‘Worst-Case Clause’. This clause, in turn, provides us with a litmus test that can be fruitfully used to determine what species are viable targets for suppression-drives in the wild. Using this metric in concert with other considerations, I suggest that only three species are currently possible viable targets – the European rabbit, ship rat and Caribbean Tree Frog.
目前大多数处理入侵物种的技术都是无效的或具有高度破坏性的副作用。为此,基于聚集规律间隔短回文重复序列(CRISPR/Cas9)的抑制驱动被吹捧为解决该问题的潜在银弹,允许高度集中,人性化和经济有效的方法从环境中去除目标物种。然而,抑制驱动带来了严重的风险,因此预防性原则似乎保证我们不会部署这项技术。这篇论文的重点就是这样一种风险——抑制驱动逃离控制并在全球范围内消灭目标物种的危险。在这里,我认为,在大多数情况下,这种风险足以保证不使用基因驱动。然而,在某些情况下,我们可以通过使用一种我称之为“最坏情况条款”的方法来绕过预防原则。反过来,这一条款为我们提供了一个试金石,可以有效地用于确定哪些物种是野生抑制驱动的可行目标。将这一指标与其他考虑相结合,我认为目前只有三种物种是可能可行的目标——欧洲兔、船鼠和加勒比树蛙。
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引用次数: 1
What Peterson Gets Wrong about Truman and The Bomb 彼得森对杜鲁门和炸弹的误解
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-11-23 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1848196
J. O'day
ABSTRACT Martin B. Peterson argues that the social experiment analysis improperly shifts our focus onto the rhetorical dimension of debates over technology, which is ‘clearly irrelevant’ to the ‘traditional’ question: is this a morally acceptable technology? By invoking Harry Truman and the atom bomb in his counterargument, however, Peterson exemplifies the important role that rhetoric plays in our assessment and acceptance of certain technologies. Peterson’s account of The Bomb is an unfortunate byproduct of American nationalist dogma, but the social experiment analysis is well equipped to neutralize its obfuscating effect. Philosophers should further investigate its utility in light of this analytical strength.
Martin B. Peterson认为,社会实验分析不恰当地将我们的注意力转移到技术辩论的修辞维度上,这与“传统”问题“显然无关”:这是一种道德上可接受的技术吗?然而,通过在他的反驳中引用哈里·杜鲁门和原子弹,彼得森举例说明了修辞在我们评估和接受某些技术时所起的重要作用。彼得森对《炸弹》的描述是美国民族主义教条的不幸副产品,但社会实验分析很好地抵消了其令人困惑的影响。哲学家应该根据这种分析的力量进一步研究它的效用。
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引用次数: 0
‘Interconnectedness with Nature’: The Imperative for an African-centered Eco-philosophy in Forest Resource Conservation in Nigeria “与自然相连”:尼日利亚森林资源保护中以非洲为中心的生态哲学势在必行
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-11-18 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1848190
Mercy Osemudiame Okpoko
ABSTRACT Calls for society to reconnect with nature are commonplace in environmental discourse. The expression ‘Interconnectedness with Nature’ has a place in African eco-philosophy. The departure from this African eco-philosophy may be a potential contributor to present rate of forest depletion in Nigeria. By employing the African eco-philosophy of ‘interconnectedness with nature’, this study considers its capacity to demonstrate the relevance of African socio-ecological ethics for forest conservation. There is need for such values to form the theoretical foundation of environmental policies and actions in Nigeria to achieve the required value change for more commitment to forest resource conservation within Nigeria.
在环境话语中,呼吁社会与自然重新联系是司空见惯的。“与自然相连”这一表达在非洲生态哲学中占有一席之地。背离这种非洲生态哲学可能是造成尼日利亚目前森林损耗率的一个潜在因素。通过采用非洲“与自然相互联系”的生态哲学,本研究认为其有能力证明非洲社会生态伦理与森林保护的相关性。这些价值需要成为尼日利亚环境政策和行动的理论基础,以实现必要的价值变化,从而更多地致力于尼日利亚境内的森林资源保护。
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引用次数: 3
Going Green Is Good for You: Why We Need to Change the Way We Think about Pro-environmental Behavior 走向绿色对你有好处:为什么我们需要改变我们对环保行为的看法
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-11-18 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1848192
Michael M. Prinzing
ABSTRACT Awareness and concern about climate change are widespread. But rates of pro-environmental behavior are low. This is partly due to the way in which pro-environmental behavior is framed – as a sacrifice or burden that individuals bear for the planet and future generations. This framing elicits well-known cognitive biases, discouraging what we should be encouraging. We should abandon the self-sacrifice framing, and instead frame pro-environmental behavior as intrinsically desirable. There is a large body of evidence that, around the world, people who are living more environmentally lifestyles are happier than those not doing so. This is the message we should be spreading.
对气候变化的认识和关注是广泛存在的。但亲环境行为的比例很低。这在一定程度上是由于亲环境行为被定义为个人为地球和子孙后代所承担的牺牲或负担。这种框架引发了众所周知的认知偏见,阻碍了我们应该鼓励的事情。我们应该放弃自我牺牲的框架,而是将亲环境行为视为内在可取的。有大量证据表明,在世界各地,生活方式更环保的人比不这样做的人更快乐。这是我们应该传播的信息。
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引用次数: 6
Luck Has Nothing to Do with It: Prevailing Uncertainty and Responsibilities of Due Care 运气与此无关:普遍的不确定性和应有的责任
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1848185
Levente Szentkirályi
ABSTRACT We are surrounded by threats of environmental harm whose actual dangers to public health are scientifically unverified. It is widely presumed that under conditions of uncertainty, when it is not possible to foresee the outcomes of our actions, or to calculate the probability they will actually cause harm, we cannot be held culpable for the risks and harms our actions impose on others. It is commonly presumed, that is, that exposing others to what this paper terms ‘uncertain threats’ is permissible, because conventional theories of moral responsibility understand uncertainty as implying that the effects of our actions are out of our control and, therefore, beyond our fault. In contrast, in rejecting arguments from moral luck, this paper denies that authors of uncertain threats of environmental harm are excusably ignorant, and denies that prevailing uncertainty diminishes their moral obligations or attenuates their culpability. For under conditions of uncertainty, culpability turns on the lack of due regard for others as moral equals – a consideration that neither luck nor ignorance excuses. To expose others to unconsented-to uncertain threats of harm without exercising due care to prevent possible injury is to wrongfully gamble with their welfare and their capacity for self-authorship.
我们被环境危害的威胁所包围,这些威胁对公众健康的实际危害尚未得到科学证实。人们普遍认为,在不确定的条件下,当我们无法预见我们行为的结果,或计算它们实际造成伤害的概率时,我们不能为我们的行为给他人带来的风险和伤害负责。人们通常认为,将他人暴露在本文所称的“不确定威胁”中是允许的,因为传统的道德责任理论将不确定性理解为暗示我们行为的影响超出了我们的控制,因此超出了我们的过错。相比之下,在拒绝道德运气的论点时,本文否认不确定的环境危害威胁的作者是可以原谅的无知,并否认普遍存在的不确定性减少了他们的道德义务或减轻了他们的罪责。因为在不确定的条件下,罪责源于缺乏对他人道德平等的应有尊重——这种考虑既不是运气也不是无知的借口。将他人置于未经同意的不确定的伤害威胁中,而不采取应有的谨慎措施来防止可能的伤害,是在错误地拿他们的福利和自我创造的能力进行赌博。
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Consequentialism, Collective Action, and Causal Impotence 结果主义、集体行动和因果性无能
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1848191
Timothy Aylsworth, Adam Pham
ABSTRACT This paper offers some refinements to a particular objection to act consequentialism, the ‘causal impotence’ objection. According to proponents of the objection, when we find circumstances in which severe, unnecessary harms result entirely from voluntary acts, it seems as if we should be able to indict at least one act among those acts, but act consequentialism appears to lack the resources to offer this indictment. Our aim is to show is that the most promising response on behalf of act consequentialism, the threshold argument, cannot offer a fully general prescription about what to do in cases of collective action.
摘要本文对行为结果论的一种特殊反对意见,即“因果性无能”的反对意见作了一些改进。根据反对意见的支持者,当我们发现严重的,不必要的伤害完全由自愿行为造成的情况下,似乎我们应该能够起诉这些行为中的至少一种行为,但行为结果主义似乎缺乏提供这种起诉的资源。我们的目的是证明行为结果论最有希望的回应,即门槛理论,并不能提供一个关于集体行为情况下该怎么做的完整的一般规定。
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Gene Drives, Species, and Compassion for Individuals in Conservation Biology 保护生物学中的基因驱动、物种和对个体的同情
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1848184
Yasha Rohwer
ABSTRACT A new movement in conservation biology called ‘compassionate conservation’ questions the traditional hierarchy of moral values in conservation. Compassionate conservationists search for ‘win-win’ solutions that allow species and populations to be saved without killing or causing excessive suffering to sentient creatures. In this paper, I argue that these compassionate conservationists have a moral obligation to support the investigation and development of genetic modification technologies because of their potential to minimize suffering and eliminate killing in conservation. Furthermore, I will end the paper by suggesting that these genetic technologies can help avoid actions that could be damaging to one’s moral character.
保护生物学中一个名为“同情保护”的新运动对保护中传统的道德价值等级提出了质疑。富有同情心的自然资源保护主义者寻求“双赢”的解决方案,既能拯救物种和种群,又不会杀死或给有知觉的生物造成过度的痛苦。在本文中,我认为这些富有同情心的自然资源保护主义者有道德义务支持基因改造技术的研究和发展,因为它们有可能最大限度地减少痛苦并消除保护中的杀戮。此外,我将在论文的最后提出,这些基因技术可以帮助避免可能损害一个人的道德品质的行为。
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