Eugene Hargrove

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Managing Director at University of North Texas

The South American temperate and sub-Antarctic forests cover the longest latitudinal range in the Southern Hemisphere and include the world's southernmost forests. However, until now, this unique biome has been absent from global ecosystem research and monitoring networks. Moreover, the latitudinal range of between 40 degrees (°) south (S) and 60°...

Background/Question/Methods Although “stewardship” may be an environmentally useful term in some contexts, it is also limiting in many ways because it is tied narrowly to three religious traditions, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Thus, while it may be extremely helpful in reaching people who are members of one of these three traditions, people...

The biocultural conservation and research initiative of Omora Ethnobotanical Park and the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve was born in a remote part of South America and has rapidly expanded to attain regional, national, and international relevance. The park and the biosphere reserve, led by Ricardo Rozzi and his team, have made significant progr...

Translating environmental ethics into something that call be taught at the primary and secondary school levels may never be feasible. In addition, what needs to be taught may vary in different cultures around the world. A good noncontroversial starting point may be to begin with the values that are often listed in the purpose statements of environm...

Background/Question/Methods Our ecological or environmental values are traditional values that predate the value-free economic values formed at the beginning of the twentieth century out of a nave mix of utilitarianism, positivism, and pragmatism. Ecological values have arisen out a set of disciplines in the sciences and the humanities including na...

La enseñanza de la ética ambiental en la educación escolar es muy difícil si no se modifican las perspectivas positivistas, y si no se adapta la enseñanza a cada cultura y región. Un buen punto de partida (y poco controvertido) sería comenzar con aquellos valores considerados en las leyes ambientales regionales. Así, los profesores enseñarían la hi...

In my 1989 book Foundations of Environmental Ethics, I predicted that environmental philosophy would eventually come to an end because it would be adequately taken care of in mainstream philosophy. That is, it would become part of philosophy of science, ethics, aesthetics, social, and political philosophy, everything except perhaps logic, which cou...

In 1982, a toxic waste facility opened in the Piney Woods in Winona, Texas. The residents were told that the company would plant fruit trees on the land left over from its ostensible salt-water injection well. Soon after the plant opened, however, residents started noticing huge orange clouds rising from the facility and an increase in rates of can...

The shift in evolutionary metaphors, from the Darwinian natural selection to natural drift proposed by Maturana, Mpodozis and Varela conveys a turn in worldviews. We argue that the former metaphor retains links with a Modern worldview, while the second, in detaching itself clearly from the notion of progress, is characteristically Post-Modern. We s...

This site provides access to Internet resources throughout the world which pertain to or focus on environmental ethics and environmental philosophy. It includes links to publications, associations, funding opportunities, graduate programs, a slideshow, and a searchable bibliography. Educational levels: Graduate or professional, Undergraduate lower...

Although Tansley (1935) is credited with the name, and often with the concept, of ecosystems, the concept of a higher level of organization had been forcing itself to the attention of biologists for many years (Möbius 1877; Forbes 1887; Lotka 1925). Another manifestation was the concept of the superorganism, which was given various interpretations,...

The history of ideas normally invoked by animal liberationists and their opponents cannot account for our basic wildlife protection attitudes, which actually developed out of the worldwide species‐classification project begun by Linnaeus in the eighteenth century. These attitudes, formed in terms of a pre‐evolutionary and pre‐ecological belief in f...

Discusses some of the views of environmentalists toward the study of environmental ethics. Addresses the problem that environmental ethics literature is difficult to read and argues that certain opinions about the value of the study of environmental ethics are rooted in misconceptions. (TW)

Using chess decision making as a model for ethical decision making, I show that ethical decisions rarely involve the conscious application of moral rules. I discuss the metaethical and normative implications of this aspect of ethical decision making in terms of the moral philosophies of Sartre, Hare, and Aristotle. I conclude with a discussion of t...

The author rejects John Passmore's claim that American environmental attitudes are incompatible with Western traditions and Western civilization (they arose out of a Romantic transvaluation of values in the 18th and 19th centuries, and today are defensible only in terms of antiscientific nature mysticism and Oriental religions), arguing that these...

I explore the problems created by the natural and social science approaches to values in higher education, arguing that over time they will render moral language unintelligible. I illustrate these problems with an examination of the value implications of the Yukon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan. I suggest a way in which value education at th...