Ethics, Policy and Environment

ISSNs: 2155-0085, 2155-0093

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    (1 other version)‘Relational Values’ is Neither a Necessary nor Justified Ethical Concept.Patrik Baard - 2025 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 28 (1):62-78.
    ABSTRACT‘Relational value’ (RV) has intuitive credibility due to the shortcomings of existing axiological categories regarding recognizing the ethical relevance of people’s relations to nature. But RV is justified by arguments and analogies that do not hold up to closer scrutiny, which strengthens the assumption that RV is redundant. While RV may provide reasons for ethically considering some relations, much work remains to show that RV is a concept that does something existing axiological concepts cannot, beyond empirically describing relations people have (...)
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    Another Shake of the Bag: Stefansson and Willners on Offsetting and Risk Imposition.Christian Barry & Garrett Cullity - 2025 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 28 (1):153-158.
    There is a difference between acting with a probability of making a difference to who is harmed, and worsening someone’s prospect. This difference is relevant to debates about the ethics of offsetting, since it means that showing that emitting-and-offsetting has the first feature is not a way of showing that it has the second feature. In an earlier paper, we illustrate this difference with an example of a lottery in which you shake the bag from which a ball will be (...)
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    The Compound Injustice of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).Fausto Corvino - 2025 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 28 (1):26-45.
    EU co-legislators recently approved the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), which establishes a uniform carbon price on both EU and imported products, in ETS covered sectors. This violates the CBDR-RC principle. Yet, CBAM advocates claim that the resulting unfair mitigation can be offset by scaling up climate finance, to the benefit of poorer countries. I argue that the CBAM’s unfairness is compounded by previous climate injustice, as avoidable emissions by developed countries pushed the climate crisis to the point where (...)
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    Can Relational Ethics Guide Us in Wolf Management?Doris Friedrich - 2025 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 28 (1):131-149.
    This paper reevaluates wolf management through a relational ethics lens, highlighting the inadequacy of traditional wild versus domesticated categorizations. Recognizing the complexity of historical and ongoing human-wolf interactions, it proposes a nuanced, context-sensitive approach to ethical responsibilities toward wolves. By introducing an assessment process based on the examination of mutual impacts in human-wolf relations, this study advocates for a more informed and morally conscious management strategy that acknowledges wolves’ complex existence within human-affected landscapes.
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    Expensive Tastes and Living in High-Risk or Hazardous Areas: Claims to Compensation.Siobhain Lash - 2025 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 28 (1):95-111.
    In this paper, I defend a position contrary to a popular view of distributive justice. Residents of flood-prone or otherwise hazardous areas, like the Gulf South of the United States, receive substantial amounts of aid, paid through taxes on people living elsewhere in the US, after natural disasters that frequent the region. In popular discourse, some argue that we have reason not to (re)build in high-risk or hazardous areas, like the Gulf South. Instead, these residents, and others in similarly situated (...)
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    Political Feasibility and a Global Climate Treaty.David Lefkowitz - 2025 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 28 (1):46-61.
    I contend that to be politically feasible a global climate treaty must satisfy the International Paretian principle (IP). I begin by defending IP as a principle of instrumental rationality that reflects the fact of extremely limited altruism vis-à-vis foreigners. I then address two objections to my thesis. One holds that an IP treaty is either economically infeasible or, contrary to its proponents’ claim, does not require side payments from poor states to rich ones. The other holds poor states will reject (...)
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    Virtue Ethics and Person-Place Relationships.Carolyn Mason - 2025 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 28 (1):112-130.
    Indigenous knowledge and work in social science demonstrates the importance for well-being of people’s relationships with places, but western moral theorists have said little on this topic. This paper argues that there is a neo-Aristotelian virtue associated with forming a relationship with a place or places; that is, human beings can form relationships with places that affect their perceptions, emotions, desires and actions, and such dispositions, when properly developed, increase the chance that people will flourish. As well as discussing the (...)
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    Individual Responsibility for Collective Climate Change Harms.Adriana Placani - 2025 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 28 (1):79-94.
    This work employs Elizabeth Cripps’ collectivist account of responsibility for climate change in order to ground an individual duty to reduce one’s GHG emissions. This is significant not only as a critique of Cripps, but also as an indication that even on some collectivist footings, individuals can be assigned primary duties to reduce their emissions. Following Cripps, this work holds the unstructured group of GHG emitters weakly collectively responsible for climate change harms. However, it argues against Cripps that what follows (...)
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    Animal Dignity: Philosophical Reflections on Non-Human Existence, edited by Melanie Challenger, London, New York, Dublin, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023, 275 pp., $26.95 (softcover), 978-1-3503-3167-9; $90 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-3503-3166-2; $24.25 (Ebook), ISBN 978-1-3503-3168-6; ISBN 978-1-3503-3169-3 (ePDF). [REVIEW]Dustin Sigsbee - 2025 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 28 (1):150-152.
    There are many excellent edited volumes on animal studies and animal ethics. Melanie Challenger’s Animal Dignity is yet another. Animal Dignity is unique insofar as the primary concern of the text...
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    Climate Precaution and Producer versus Consumer Dependence on Fossil Fuels.Daniel Steel, Paul Bartha & Rachel Cripps - 2025 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 28 (1):1-25.
    This article explores the consequences of falling costs of solar and wind power for the ethics of climate change mitigation. We suggest that price competitiveness of renewables reveals a divergence of interest between fossil fuel consumers and producers: cheap renewables strengthen precautionary arguments for aggressive mitigation for consumers but threaten the economic base of producers. As existing applications of the precautionary principle to climate change do not address this issue, we develop a novel approach based on lexical utilities. Given the (...)
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