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Newsletter Society, and Ecological Design Letter from the Editor Here at ISEE we are very excited about the numerous events and changes underway. As most of you already know, ISEE‘s 8th annual meeting takes place in Nijmegen, The Netherlands on June 14-17, 2011. This year‘s meeting will focus on differences between Old World and New World perspectives on a range of topics in environmental philosophy including nature, landscape, wilderness, history and many others. The keynote speakers are Marcus Hall (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Brian Schroeder (Rochester institute of Technology, co-director of International Association for Environmental Philosophy). There will also be an author-meets- critics session on Matthias Groß‘s Ignorance and Surprise: Science, Newsletter Society, and Ecological Design. A host of other events and informal Volume 22, No. 2 Spring 2011 activities are planned, making this year‘s conference a truly unique occasion. Don‘t forget about ISEE‘s new Online Bibliography of IN THIS ISSUE Environmental Thought (OBET), the largest bibliography in the 2 General Announcements world on environmental ethics with nearly 15,000 entries. Though 4 Member News beginning in 2009, OBET includes the complete back catalog for Environmental Ethics, Environmental Values, Ethics and the Environment, 5 Events & Issues and The Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. It is a fully 8 The Profession searchable database with entries before and after 2009, which ISEE 26 On the Net members have frequently placed in the bibliography. As a 27 Recent Films cooperative and volunteer effort, OBET is always looking for contributors. Email David Lahti if you would like to be involved in 29 Recent Publications the OBET project. 76 ISEE Business Finally, ISEE‘s new website (www.iseethics.org) is already 79 Membership & Dues generating considerable traffic. The site is intended to be a continuously updated clearing house for events and issues in the environmental philosophy community. In addition to SEND US YOUR UPDATES announcements (calls, conferences, etc.), you will find ISEE‘s Whether you landed a new job, won an award, defended your dissertation, Special Collections library, tools for research and education, past retired from teaching, or did something newsletters, video presentations, and many other resources. The site peculiar, interesting, or enlightening, is updated on a daily basis so check back often. ISEE wants to know! If you have news It is with great pleasure that I step into the role of editor of to share, please contact ISEE with the ISEE‘s Newsletter. Having reviewed issues spanning the past subject heading ―Member News.‖ twenty years, I am impressed by the high caliber of the publication under its previous editors: Mark Woods, Amy Knisley, Phil Cafaro, Jack Weir, and Holmes Rolston, III. My central goal is to pick up On the Net at where the others left off while simultaneously integrating the www.iseethics.org newsletter with the new website. Subscribe to Questions, comments, complaints?—always feel free to drop ISEE‘s RSS feed me a line at [email protected]. —William Grove-Fanning SPRING 2011 1 General Announcements —Friendly Reminder about Nonpayment of Dues. ISEE is cleaning up its member list. Anyone not renewing their membership for 20l1-2012 will be dropped from the list and will not receive future ISEE newsletters. But we don‘t want to lose you, so please renew! Payments can be made at http://iseethics.org/membership-dues/. —ISEE at the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy at Athens in 2013. The XXIII World Congress of Philosophy is scheduled for Athens in 2013. There has been some talk about ISEE sponsoring talks or panels there. In addition, there will also be opportunities for environmental philosophers to propose talks directly to the Athens schedulers. If anyone has ideas or proposals for sessions, please communicate them to ISEE President Emily Brady or to Vice President Phil Cafaro. —Cary Conference 2011: ―Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World: Values, Philosophy, and Action,‖ May 10-12, 2011. This year‘s biennial conference builds on the experience of 13 prior Cary Conferences, all of which have addressed important core issues and problematic concepts within ecology, have explored key syntheses across disciplines and scales, and have linked ecological knowledge with such important broader concerns as conservation, restoration, ecological forecasting, policy, education, and urban design. The Conferences have resulted in impactful books and journal articles, and are routinely cited by both emerging workers and established scholars as changing their approach to their topic. The fundamental importance of human values in promoting the use of ecological knowledge in environmental decision making in this rapidly changing age makes this certainly one of the most compelling of the topics we have addressed in the 26 years of Cary Conference history. 2011‘s conference is organized by Steward T.A. Pickett (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, President-Elect of the Ecological Society of America), Ricardo Rozzi (University of North Texas, Director of the Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program), Claudia Rosen (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies), Juan J. Armesto (Universidad Católica de Chile), J. Baird Callicott (University of North Texas), Clare Palmer (Texas A & M University), and William H. Schlesinger (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies). ISEE members in attendance: Ricardo Rozzi, J. Baird Callicott, Clare Palmer, William Grove- Fanning, Alexandria Poole, Chaone Mallory, Eugene Hargrove, Allen Carlson, and William Forbes. —The Astonishing Growth of Climate Ethics and Future Ethics. Research into the ethics of climate change continues to expand rapidly. More than 40 works directly focused on some philosophical aspect of climate change have been published or documented since the last newsletter: 26 stand-alone articles, eight anthologies, four books, and two special journal issues. Listings for these can be found in the Recent Publications section (page 29). More generally, the rise of climate ethics has led to a resurgence of interest in future ethics, an area originally pioneered by, among others, ISEE‘s Ernest Partridge who wrote the first Ph.D. dissertation on the topic in 1976 and published one of the first anthologies, Responsibilities to Future Generations: Environmental Ethics in 1981. —Notable Encyclopedias. Two ambitious encyclopedia sets are in the process of being published: Berkshire‘s 10-volume Encyclopedia of Sustainability and Sage Publications‘s 12-volume Reference Series on Green Society. The first two volumes of the Berkshire set have already been published while the remaining eight volumes are due out by the end of the summer. Six volumes of Sage‘s series were published last summer with the remaining six volumes slated to be released this 2 ISEE NEWSLETTER summer, including Green Ethics and Philosophy: An A-to-Z Guide. Information for both sets can be found in the Reference Works section of ISEE‘s website. —New Journals: Environmental and Society and Journal of Animal Ethics. For a complete listing of journals see the ISEE website at http://iseethics.org/journals-of-interest/. Environment and Society. The field of research on environment and society is growing rapidly and becoming of ever-greater importance not only in academia but also in policy circles and for the public at large. Climate change, the water crisis, deforestation, biodiversity loss, the looming energy crisis, nascent resource wars, environmental refugees, and environmental justice are just some of the many compelling challenges facing society today and in the future. As a forum to address these issues, we are delighted to present an important new peer-reviewed annual: Environment and Society: Advances in Research. Through this journal we hope to stimulate advanced research and action on these and other critical issues and encourage international communication and exchange among all relevant disciplines. Published in association with the Earth Institute of Columbia University, Environment and Society publishes critical reviews of the latest research literature including subjects of theoretical, methodological, substantive, and applied significance. Articles also survey the literature regionally and thematically and reflect the work of anthropologists, geographers, environmental scientists, and human ecologists from all parts of the world in order to internationalize the conversations within environmental anthropology, environmental geography, and other environmentally oriented social sciences. The publication will appeal to academic, research and policy-making audiences alike. Table of Contents for the First Issue 1. ―Introduction to the Journal and Issue‖ by Paige West, Dan Brockington, Jamon Alex Halvaksz II, and Michael L. Cepek 2. ―Neoliberalism and the biophysical environment: a synthesis and evaluation of the research‖ by Noel Castree 3. ―Neoliberal water management: trends, limitations, reformulations‖ by Kathryn Furlong 4. ―Controversies in climate change economics‖ by Robert Eastwood 5. ―Origins, uses, and transformation of extinction rhetoric‖ by Richard J. Ladle and Paul Jepson 6. ―Climate changing small islands: Considering social science and the production of island vulnerability and opportunity‖ by Amelia Moore 7. ―Adaptation genuine and spurious: Demystifying adaptation processes in relation to climate change‖ by Thomas F. Thornton and Nadia Manasfi 8. ―Climate change resilience and adaptation, perspectives from two
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