Environmental Ethics - Publications
Chapters or Articles in Books, Part II
"Value in Nature and the Nature of Value." In Robin Attfield and Andrew
Belsey, eds., Philosophy and the Natural Environment (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994), pages 13-30. Royal Institute of Philosophy,
Annual Supplement Volume. Download/print in PDF
format, 780 kb. Invited conference address, Royal Society of Philosophy,
Annual Conference, University of Wales, Cardiff, July 18-21, 1993.
Reprinted in Andrew Light and Holmes Rolston, III, eds. Environmental Ethics: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003), pages 143-153.
Reprinted, translated into German "Werte in der Natur und die Natur der
Werte." In Angelika Krebs, ed., Naturethik. Grundtexte der gegenwartigen
tier- und okoethischen Diskussion (Ethics of Nature: Fundamental Texts
Discussing Contemporary Animal and Ecological Ethics) (Frankfurt:
Suhrkamp, 1997), pages 247-270. Download/print
in PDF format, 1 mb.
Reprinted, translated into French, "La valeur dans la nature et la
nature de la valeur," in Hicham-Stéphane Afeissa, editor and
translator, Éthique de l'environment: Nature, valeur, respect
(Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2007), pages 153-186.
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in PDF, 1.3 mb.
Reprinted, translated into Danish, "Vaerdi i naturen og vaerdinens natur," in Mente Sorensen, Finn Arler, and Martin Ishoy, eds., Miljo og etik (Environment and Ethics) (Aarhus, Denmark: NSI Press, Nordisk Sommeruniversitet, 1997, pages. 17-38. Download/print in PDF format, 1 mb.
Reprinted, translated into Chinese, "Zi ran di jiazhi uu jiazhi di benzhi (Value in Nature and the Nature of Value)," Zi ran bian lun fa yet jiu (Studies in Dialectics of Nature) 15(no. 2, February, 1999):42-46 (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institue of Philosophy, Beijing). ISSN 1000-8934. Translated by Liu Er. Download/print in PDF format, 440 kb.
Reprinted, translated into Chinese (second time), "Ziran de jiazhi yu jiazhi de benzhi (Value in Nature and the Nature of Value)." Pages 5-12 in Ye Ping, ed., Huanjing yu kechixu fazhan yanjiu (For Environment and Sustainable Development). Harbin, China: Heilongjiang Science and Technology Press, 1998. ISBN 7-5388-3508-3. Selected proceedings of First All-China Conference on Environment and Development, held in Harbin, China, October 20-24, 1998.
Reprinted, translated into Polish, "Wartosci w Naturze i Natura Wartrosci (Value in Nature and the Nature of Value," shorter version in print ODRA, December 2002, in Zielony paradygmat (Green Paradigm) supplement (ISSN 0472-5182), Download/print in PDF format, 400 kb.
Also acompanying University of Wroclaw website
full text full text or download/print
archived in html format, translator Stefan Florek.
"Nature and Culture in Environmental Ethics." Pages 151-158 in Klaus Brinkmann, ed., Ethics: The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 1 (Bowling Green, Ohio: Philosophy Documentation Center, 1999). Invited paper at the Session on Philosophy and the Natural Environment, Robin Attfield, Chair, World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 1998. Download/print in PDF format, 360 kb.
"Feeding People versus Saving Nature," in William Aiken and Hugh LaFollette,
eds., World Hunger and Morality, 2nd ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1996), pages 248-267. Download/print
in PDF format, 1.1 mb., by permission of Pearson Education, Inc.
Reprinted in Hugh LaFollette, ed., Ethics in Practice: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd, 1997), pages 619-630. 2nd ed. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd., 2002), pages 621-630.
Reprinted in Donald VanDeVeer and Christine Pierce, eds., The Environmental Ethics and Policy Book: Philosophy, Ecology, Economics, 2nd ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1998), pages 409-420.
Reprinted in David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott, eds., Environmental Ethics: Introductory Readings (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), pages 404-416.
Reprinted in Andrew Light and Holmes Rolston, III, eds. Environmental Ethics: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003), pages 451-462. With reply by Robin Attfield, "Saving Nature, Feeding People, and Ethics," pages 463-471.
Electronically reprinted on website, Ecospherics International, Inc., Lanark, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ecospherics.net Ted Mosquin, editor. View/download text.
Translated into German as "Menschen Ernahren oder Natur Erhalten?" in Conceptus: Zeitschrift fur philosophie 29(nr. 74, 1996):1-25, with reply,"Natur Erhalten oder Menschen Ernahren?" ("Saving Nature or Feeding People?") by Robin Attfield (Philosophy, University of Wales), Conceptus 29:27-45. Download/print in PDF format, 2.8 mb.
Reprinted in J. Baird Callicott and Clare Palmer, eds., Environmental
Philosophy: Critical Concepts in the Environment (London: Routledge,
2005), vol. 4, pp. 23-40.
Three critical articles responding to "Feeding People versus Saving Nature," (in William Aiken and Hugh LaFollette, eds., World Hunger and Morality, 2nd ed., Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996, pages 248-267) are:
(1) Robin Attfield (Philosophy, University of Wales, Cardiff), "Saving Nature, Feeding People and Ethics," Environmental Values 7(1998):291-304.
(2) Andrew Brennan (Philosophy, University of Western Australia), "Poverty, Puritanism and Environmental Conflict," Environmental Values 7(1998):305-331.
(3) Ben A. Minteer (School of Natural Resources, University of Vermont), "No Experience Necessary? Foundationalism and the Retreat from Culture in Environmental Ethics," Environmental Values 7(1998):333-348.
Rolston's response is "Saving Nature, Feeding People, and the Foundations of Ethics," Environmental Values 7(1998):349-357. Download/print in PDF format, 500 kb.
A further critical article is:
(4) Hanna Siurua, "Nature above People: Rolston and `Fortress' Conservation in the South," Ethics and the Environment 11 (no. 1, 2006):71-96.
"The Wilderness Idea Reaffirmed," reprinted in Lori Gruen and Dale Jamieson,
eds., Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 265-278. Originally in
Environmental Professional 13(1991):370-377. Download/print
in PDF format, 790 kb.
Reprinted in John Lemons, ed., Readings from The Environmental Profesional: Natural Resources (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Science Publishers, 1995), pages 108-115.
Reprinted in Andrew Brennan, ed., The Ethics of the Environment (Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K.: Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1995), pages 445-452.
Reprinted in Joseph DesJardins, ed., Environmental Ethics: Concepts, Policy, Theory (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1999), pages 382-391. Originally in Environmental Professional 13(1991):370-377.
Reprinted (in part) in Bill Willers, ed., Unmanaged Landscapes: Voices for Untamed Nature (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999), pp. 179-183.
Reprinted in James E. Coufal and Charles M. Spuches, Environmental Ethics in Practice: Developing a Personal Ethic. Materials for Natural Resources Management Instructors (Syracuse, NY: SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 1995).
"Endangered Species and Biodiversity: Ethical Issues" in Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Revised Edition, Warren T. Reich, ed. (New York: Macmillan Library Reference, Simon and Schuster, 1995), pages 671-75. Pages 748-752, vol. 2, in Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed., Stephen G. Post, Editor-in-Chief (New York: Macmillan Reference/Thompson Gale, 2004).
"Wildlife Conservation and Management: Ethical Issues" in Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Revised Edition, Warren T. Reich, ed. (New York: Macmillan Library Reference, Simon and Schuster, 1995), pages 176-80. "Animal Welfare and Rights III. Wildlife Conservation and Management," pages 201-204, vol. 1, in Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed., Stephen G. Post, Editor-in-Chief (New York: Macmillan Reference/Thompson Gale, 2004).
"Duties to Endangered Species." Volume 1, pages 517-528 in Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology, 4 vols. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1995. Download/print in PDF format, 900 kb.
"Biophilia, Selfish Genes, Shared Values" Pages 381-414 in Stephen R.
Kellert and Edward O. Wilson, eds., The Biophilia Hypothesis: A Theoretical
and Empirical Inquiry (Washington: Island Press, 1993).
"Environmental Ethics: Some Challenges for Christians." In Harlan Beckley, ed., The Annual: Society of Christian Ethics (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1993), pages 163-186. Keynote address at the Society of Christian Ethics, Annual National Conference, Savannah, GA, January 8-10, 1993.
Reprinted in Church and Society, July/August 1996, pages 37-50.
Reprinted in The Egg: An Eco-Justice Quarterly (Environmental Justice Working Group of the National Council of Churches) vol. 13, no. 3 (summer 1993):6-10, 18.
Reprinted, with title: "Duties to Animals, Plants, Species, and Ecosystems: Challenges for Christians." In William Gibson, ed., Eco-justice: The Unfinished Journey (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press [SUNY], 2004), pages 133-145.
"Winning and Losing in Environmental Ethics." In Frederick Ferré‚
and Peter G. Hartel, eds., Ethics and Environmental Policy: Theory
Meets Practice (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994), pages
217-234.
Also published in John Echeverria and Raymond Booth Eby, Let the People Judge: Wise Use and the Private Property Rights Movement (Washington: Island Press, 1995), pages 263-273. Condensed version published in IRAS Newsletter (Institute on Religion in an Age of Science), vol 40, no. 3, 15 April 1992, pp. 2-3.
"Global Environmental Ethics: A Valuable Earth." In Richard L. Knight
and Sara F. Bates, eds., A New Century for Natural Resources Management
(Washington, DC: Island Press, 1995), pages 349-366. Also published in
Ye Ping, et al, eds., Sheng t'a huan ching pao hu tzu jan tzu yuan
kuan li ti li lun yen chiu (A Theoretical Study of Ecological Environmental
Protection and Management of Natural Resources). He-lung chiang k'o
hsueh chi shu ch'u pan she, 1995. ISBN 7-5388-2729-3 (Harbin, China: Scientific
and Technological Publishing Co., 1995), pages 67-83.
Electronically reprinted on website, Ecospherics International, Inc., Lanark, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ecospherics.net Ted Mosquin, editor. View/download text.
"The Value of Life for Itself," in Elliott A. Norse, ed., Global Marine
Biological Diversity: A Strategy for Building Conservation into Decision
Making (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1993), pages 34-36.
"Foreword" in Louis P. Pojman, ed., Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application (Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc., 1994), pages xv-xvi.
"Foreword" in Don E. Marietta, Jr., For People and the Planet: Holism and Humanism in Environmental Ethics (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995), pages ix-xii.
"Foreword" in Erazim Kohak, The Green Halo: A Bird's Eye View of Ecological Ethics. Chicago: Open Court, 2000), pp. xv-xvii.
"Down to Earth: Persons in Place in Natural History." Pages 285-296 in Andrew Light and Jonathan M. Smith, eds., Philosophy and Geography III: Philosophies of Place. Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield, 1998.
"Down to Earth: Persons in Place in Natural History." In Rana P. B. Singh, ed., Environmental Ethics: Discourses, and Cultural Traditions: Festschrift to Arne Naess (Varanasi, India: The National Geographical Society of India, 1993), pages 55-63; also published as the National Geographical Journal of India, vol. 39, parts 1-4, 1993.
"People, Population, Prosperity, and Place." In Noel J. Brown and Pierre Quibler, eds., Ethics and Agenda 21: Moral Implications of a Global Consensus (New York: United Nations Publications, United Nations Environment Programme, 1994), pages 35-38. Ethical evaluation of the UN strategy document from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio Earth Summit).
"Environmental Protection and an Equitable International order: Ethics after the Earth Summit." In Donald A. Brown, compiler, Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Conference Held at the United Nations on the Ethical Dimensions of the United Nations Program on Environmental and Development, Agenda 21 (Camp Hill, Pa: Earth Ethics Research Group, 1994), pages 267-284.
"Aesthetic Experience in Forests." Reprinted in Peter C. List, ed., Environmental Ethics and Forestry: A Reader (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000), pages 80-92. Download/print in PFD format, 792 kb. Originally in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56(1998):157-166.
Reprinted in Allen Carlson and Arnold Berleant, eds., The Aesthetics of Natural Environments (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadviesw Press, 2004), pages 182-196.
Reprinted, translated into Finnish, in Yrjö Sepänmaa, ed. Metsään Mieleni (Helsinki: Maahenski, 2003), pages 31-47. Download/print in pdf fomat, 6 mb.
"Restoration," in William Throop, ed., Environmental Restoration
(Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, Prometheus Press, 2000), pp. 127-132. Reprinted
from Conserving Natural Value (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994),
Chapter 3, Section 5, pp. 88-93.
Reprinted in Andrew Brennan, ed., The Ethics of the Environment, in The International Research Library of Philosophy (Aldershot, Hampshire, U.K.: Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1995). U.S. Distributor: Ashgate Publishing Co., Brookfield, VT.
Reprinted by The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom in curriculum materials for a university and correspondence course, A211: Philosophy and the Human Situation. Reprinted March 1999.
Reprinted in part in John Benson, Environmental Ethics: An Introduction with Readings (London: Routledge, 2000, pages 237-242.
Reprinted in J. Baird Callicott and Clare Palmer, eds., Environmental Philosophy: Critical Concepts in the Environment (London: Routledge, 2005), vol. 1, pp. 175-198.
"What Is Responsible Management of Private Rangeland?" In Larry D. White, ed., Private Property Rights and Responsibilities of Rangeland Owners and Managers (College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University, 1995), pages 39-49. Proceedings from a conference of the Texas Section of the Society for Range Management.
"Humans Valuing the Natural Environment," in Barbara MacKinnon, Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues, 2nd ed., (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1998), pages 331-341. 3rd ed, 2001, pages 372-382. Reprinted from Rolston, Environmental Ethics, chapter 1.
"Environmental Ethics in the Undergraduate Philosophy Curriculum." In Jonathan Colett and Stephen J. Karakashian, eds., The Environment: Conservation of Biodiversity, and Sustainable Development: A Multidisciplinary Guide for College Teachers (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1996), pages 206-234.
"Nature, Spirit, and Land Management." Pages 17-24 in Beverly L. Driver, Daniel Dustin, Tony Baltic, Gary Eisner, and George Peterson, eds., Nature and the Human Spirit: Toward an Expanded Land Management Ethic (State College, PA: Venture Publishing Co., 1996). Anthology published by a U.S. Forest Service task force.
"Earth Ethics: A Challenge to Liberal Education." Pages 161- 192 in J. Baird Callicott and Fernando Jos‚ R. da Rocha, eds., Earth Summit Ethics: Toward a Reconstructive Postmodern Philosophy on the Atlantic Rim (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996). Keynote address at Conference on Ethics, University, and Environment" at Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, May 25-29, 1992.
"Nature, Culture, and Environmental Ethics / Narava, kultura in etika okolja." Pages 25-42 in Dusan Ogrin, ed., Varstvo narave zunaj zavarovanih obmocij / The Conservation of Nature Outside Protected Areas (Ljubljnana, Slovenia: Urad RS za prostorska planiranje, Ministrstvo za okolje in prostor / Office for Physical Planning, Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, Republic of Slovenia, and Institut za krajinsko arhitekturo, Biotehniska fakulteta / Institute of Landscape Architecture, University of Ljubljana, 1966). In English and also translated into Slovenian. Conference proceedings from European Union, Conference on the Conservation of Nature Outside Protected Areas, Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 1995.
"Environmental Science and Environmental Advocacy." Pages 137-153 in Anders
Nordgren, ed., Science, Ethics, Sustainability: The Responsibility
of Science in Attaining Sustainable Development, Centre for Research
Ethics, University of Uppsala, Sweden. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis,
Studies in Bioethics and Research Ethics 2 (Uppsala, Sweden, Centre
for Research Ethics, 1997).
"Values in Nature." Translated into Finnish in Markku Oksanen and Marjo Rauhala-Hayes, eds., Ymparistofilosofia: Kirjoituksia ymparistonsuojelun eettisista perusteista (Environmental Philosophy: Critical Sources in Environmental Theory and Ethics (Heksinki: Gaudeamus, Oy Yliopistokustannus, Finnish University Press, 1997), pages 205-224. Originally in Environmental Ethics 3(1981):113-128. Also published in Philosophy Gone Wild.
"Humans Valuing the Natural Environment," in Barbara MacKinnon, ed., Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues, second edition (Belmont: CA: Wadsdworth Publishing Co., 1998), pages 331-341. 3rd ed, 2001, pages 372-382. Reprinted from Environmental Ethics, Chapter 1.
"Ethics on the Home Planet." Pages 107-139 in Anthony Weston, ed, An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Download/print in PDF format, 1.3 mb.
"A Managed Earth and the End of Nature?" Pages 143-164 in Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino, Lester Embree, and Don E. Marietta, eds. The Philosophies of Environment and Technology, vol. 18 of Research in Philosophy of Technology (Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1999). Download/print in PDF format, 1.1 mb.
"Ethics and the Environment" (Types of Environmental Ethics). Chapter 11 in Emily Baker and Michael Richardson, eds., Ethics Applied, edition 2 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), pages 407-437.
"Respect for Life: Counting What Singer Finds of No Account." Pages 247-268 in Dale Jamieson, ed., Singer and His Critics (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1999).
Translated into German: "Das berucksichtigen, was Singer als belanglos ansieht." Natur und Kultur: Transdisziplinaere Zeitschrift fuer oekologische Nachhaltigkeit 2(no. 1, 2001):97-116.
"Biodiversity and Endangered Species," in Dale Jamieson, ed., A Companion to Environmental Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001), pp. 402-415
"Values Deep in the Woods." Reprinted in Peter C. List, ed., Environmental Ethics and Forestry: A Reader (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000), pages 75-79. Originally in American Forests 94, nos. 5 & 6 (May/June 1988:33, 66-69.
Electronically reprinted on website, Ecospherics International, Inc., Lanark, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ecospherics.net Ted Mosquin, editor. View/download text.
"Valuing Wildlands." Reprinted in R. Kerry Turner, Kenneth Button, and Peter Nijkamp, eds. Ecosystems and Nature: Economics, Science and Policy (Cheltenham, Gloucester, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Co., 1999), pages 463-488. Originally in Environmental Ethics 7(1985):23-48.
Reprinted in J. Baird Callicott and Clare Palmer, eds., Environmental Philosophy: Critical Concepts in the Environment (London: Routledge, 2005), vol. 3, pp. 320-346.
"Enforcing Environmental Ethics: Civic Law and Natural Value." Pages 349-369 in James P. Sterba, ed., Social and Political Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2001. Download/print in PDF format, 1.1 mb.
Reprinted (in part) in International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education (International Geographical Union, Channel View Publications, Clevedon, UK): 11 (no. 1, 2002):76-79.
"Intrinsic Values in Nature." Pages 76-84 in II Congresso Brasileiro de Unidades de Conservaçao, Anais, vol 1., Conferências e Palestras, organizers Miguel Serediuk Milano and Verônica Theulen (Proceedings of the Second Brazilian Congress on Conservation Areas, November 5-9, 2000, Campo Grande, Brazil.
"Intrinsic Values in Nature." Pages 1-11 in Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir and Ólafur Páll Jónsson, eds., Art, Ethics and Environment: A Free Inquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. ISBN 1-84718-039-6. Anthology from conference: Nature in the Kingdom of Ends, Selfoss, Iceland, 2005.
"What Do We Mean by the Intrinsic Value and Integrity of Plants and Animals?" Pages 5-10 in David Heaf and Johannes Wirz, eds., Genetic Engineering and the Intrinsic Value and Integrity of Plants and Animals, Proceedings of a Workshop at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK. Dornach, Switzerland: Ifgene, International Forum for Genetic Engineering, 2002. Keynote address at the conference.
"In Situ and Ex Situ Conservation: Philosophical and Ethical Concerns." Pages 21-39 in Edward O. Guerrant, Jr., Kathy Havens, and Mike Maunder, eds. Ex Situ Plant Conservtion: Supporting Species in the Wild. Society for Ecological Restoration International and Center for Plant Conservation. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004.
"Environmental Virtue Ethics: Half the Truth but Dangerous as a Whole." Pages 61-78 in Ronald Sandler and Philip Cafaro, eds., Environmental Virtue Ethics. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005. Download/Print in PDF format, 1.1 mb.
Translated into German, "Umwelt-Tugendethik: Die halbe Warheit - Sie für das Ganze zu halten, ist aber gefährlich (Environmental Virtue Ethics: Half the Truth but Dangerous as a Whole)," in Natur und Kultur 6/2 (2005):93-112.
Research Conference
The following papers appear in an issue of the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences Bulletin, vol. 11, no. 2, the proceedings of a research conference devoted to Rolston's work at the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, February 8-16, 1991.
"Respect for Life: Christians, Creation, and Environmental Ethics," pp. 1-8.
"Genes, Genesis, and God in Natural and Human History, pp. 9- 23.