Environmental Philosophy and Ethics

National survey reveals Swedish municipalities prioritise biodiversity but face organisational constraints, funding gaps, and conflicting agendas that fragment implementation efforts.

Study of Harbin's nature-inclusive urban development finds original residents experienced well-being declines and lower fairness perceptions despite economic gains, highlighting gentrification risks.

Systematic review of 124 studies on virtual nature and well-being reveals positive effects but identifies limitations in intervention design and theoretical scope.

A conceptual framework integrating symbolic power and socially endorsed beliefs explains how values of nature gain legitimacy in sustainability governance, illustrated through Japanese fisheries.

Environmental aesthetics framework for rethinking school-based aesthetic education, linking sensory engagement with ethical awareness and environmental activism.

Analysis develops nature as place as foundational to ecospirituality through a conceptual trajectory spanning physical concreteness, human-nature relations, emotion, and aesthetics.

Examining how animal cultures reshape conservation goals and why protecting them requires centering animals' own interests in agency and cultural self-determination.

An art-science collaboration examines how immersive installations and data visualizations engage publics with climate modelling and forest ecology, linking visual literacy to ecoliteracy development.

Forest-based education across Australia, Nepal, and Switzerland shows how integrating local risk perceptions with constructivist pedagogy builds critical knowledge about sustainable management.

A two-day meeting brought UK nature conservation chief scientists together with AI researchers to discuss geospatial machine learning for ecosystem monitoring and intervention assessment.

Examining adaptive planning law and environmental justice in the Dutch Environmental Planning Act, revealing tensions between procedural flexibility and substantive equity commitments.

Collingwood's Principles of Art offers a superior theoretical framework for understanding diverse everyday aesthetic experiences through imaginative activity and felt consciousness.

Value pluralism provides ethical justification for portfolio approaches in conservation by recognizing diverse ecosystem values and supporting inclusive, diversified conservation strategies.

Examine how mainstream vegan advocacy's focus on sentient animal welfare reinforces anthropocentrism. Explore post-anthropocentric frameworks for transformative multispecies ethics beyond zoocentrism.

Philosophical analysis reconceptualizing ethical individualism in animal and environmental ethics through non-atomistic frameworks emphasizing relational interdependence.

Path analysis of greenspace characteristics, perceived environmental quality, and psychological restoration outcomes in urban settings using mediation models from Munich greenspace survey data.

Comparative analysis of Indigenous Plains concepts of wolves as creator figures through Niche Construction theory and Yellowstone ecosystem data.

Analysis of Doug Wheeler's immersive installation examining landscape representation, the sublime, and human-nature relationships through philosophical and ecological theoretical frameworks.

Critical analysis of artistic practices objectifying nature through case studies of contemporary artists, examining ethical tensions and ideological frameworks within institutional art contexts.

Ethnographic examination of Paiwan ontologies of the Formosan clouded leopard reveals extinction as relational transformation rather than terminal loss, challenging Western conservation frameworks.