Professor Simon James' Outputs (6)

The New Greenspeak (2015)
Journal Article
James, S. (2015). The New Greenspeak. Earth Island journal, 30(1),

Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Critical Assessment (2015)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2015). Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Critical Assessment. Ethics, Policy & Environment, 18(3), 338-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2015.1111616

This paper is about the practice of evaluating ecosystems on the basis of the cultural services they provide. My first aim is to assess the various objections that have been made to this practice. My second is to argue that when particular places are... Read More about Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Critical Assessment.

Why Old Things Matter (2015)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2015). Why Old Things Matter. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 12(3), 313-329. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-4681038

It is, I suggest, unclear whether any old inanimate objects deserve to be treated with respect simply because they are old. Yet this does not entail that an object’s age has no bearing at all on the question of how it may permissibly be treated. I de... Read More about Why Old Things Matter.

Ecosystem Services and the Value of Places (2015)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2016). Ecosystem Services and the Value of Places. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 19(1), 101-113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9592-6

In the US Environmental Protection Agency, the World Wide Fund for Nature and many other environmental organisations, it is standard practice to evaluate particular woods, wetlands and other such places on the basis of the ‘ecosystem services’ they a... Read More about Ecosystem Services and the Value of Places.

Protecting Nature for the Sake of Human Beings (2015)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2016). Protecting Nature for the Sake of Human Beings. Ratio: An international journal of analytic philosophy, 29(2), 213-227. https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12091

It is often assumed that to say that nature should be protected for the sake of human beings just is to say that it should be protected because it is a means to one or more anthropocentric ends. I argue that this assumption is false. In some contexts... Read More about Protecting Nature for the Sake of Human Beings.

Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction (2015)
Book
James, S. P. (2015). Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction. Polity Press

Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental questions about the world and our place in it. What, for instance, is the natural world? Do we humans bel... Read More about Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction.