ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Environmental landscape ethics: a theory of cohabitability
This project seeks to establish a new environmental ethics subfield, environmental landscape ethics, and to develop a new theory around the notion of ‘cohabitability’ as a focal analytical framework for it. Because land use for human purposes covers most of Earth’s habitable (ice-free and fertile) land, there is a pressing need to develop ethical theory to address land use. Yet, the present environmental ethics is ill-equipped for addressing land management because it largely builds on the legacy of wilderness orientation that focuses on mitigating human impacts to secure the ‘intactness’ of nature. Thus, new theories, terminology, and methods are needed. COHAB will establish environmental…
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