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Between ecocentrism and anthropocentrism

A new issue of the Electronic Green Journal is out. James Justus (FSU): Philosophical Issues in Ecology. Vito De Lucia (UiT): The Ecosystem Approach between Ecocentrism and Anthropocentrism. Bruce Matthews (Bard): Schelling in the Anthropocene: A New Mythology of Nature. Vincent Blok (Wageningen): Reconnecting with Nature in the Age of Technology: The Heidegger and Radical Environmentalism Debate Revisited. Guillermo Valverde (Edinburgh): Could the Foundations of the Land Ethic also Justify Moral Nihilism? From The Ethics Forum, a special issue on final values and the environment. What do the humanities have to do with the environment? Sverker Sorlin on the environmental turn in the human sciences. Stephen Muecke reviews Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World by Timothy Morton. Daniel Mattox (Morehead State): Deep Sociology: Applying Deep Ecology to Environmental Sociology. Andy Lamey (UCSD): Ecosystems as Spontaneous Orders. Barbara J. King reviews How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human by Eduardo Kohn. Richard L. Revesz (NYU): Toward a More Rational Environmental Policy. Mark Kanazawa reviews Revealed Biodiversity: An Economic History of the Human Impact by Eric L. Jones. Unlocking James Lovelock: Is the inventor of the Gaia Hypothesis really such an outsider? “Sustainability” is older than you think, an environmental buzzword traced back to aristocrats and colonizers: Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow interviews Jeremy L. Caradonna, author of Sustainability: A History. Stocking nature’s arsenal: James G. Lewis reviews Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism by Jacob Darwin Hamblin. Can the world really set aside half of the planet for wildlife? The eminent evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson has an audacious vision for saving Earth from a cataclysmic extinction event.