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  1. The ethics of species extinctions.Anna Wienhues, Patrik Baard, Alfonso Donoso & Markku Oksanen - 2023 - Cambridge Prisms: Extinction 1 (e23):1–15.
    This review provides an overview of the ethics of extinctions with a focus on the Western analytical environmental ethics literature. It thereby gives special attention to the possible philosophical grounds for Michael Soulé’s assertion that the untimely ‘extinction of populations and species is bad’. Illustrating such debates in environmental ethics, the guiding question for this review concerns why – or when – anthropogenic extinctions are bad or wrong, which also includes the question of when that might not be the case (...)
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    Is there a convincing case for climate veganism?Teea Kortetmäki & Markku Oksanen - 2020 - Agriculture and Human Values 38 (3):729-740.
    Climate change compels us to rethink the ethics of our dietary choices and has become an interesting issue for ethicists concerned about diets, including animal ethicists. The defenders of veganism have found that climate change provides a new reason to support their cause because many animal-based foods have high greenhouse gas emissions. The new style of argumentation, the ‘climatic argument for veganism’, may benefit animals by persuading even those who are not concerned about animals themselves but worry about climate change. (...)
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    Right to Food and Geoengineering.Markku Oksanen & Teea Kortetmäki - 2023 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 36 (1):1-17.
    Climate change poses grave risks to food security, and mitigation and adaptation actions have so far been insufficient to lessen the risk of climate-induced violations of the right to food. Could safeguarding the right to food, then, justify some forms of geoengineering? This article examines geoengineering through the analytical lens of the right to food. We look at the components of food security and consider how the acceptability of geoengineering relates to the right to food via its impacts on these (...)
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    Rights of Nature: A Re-examination.Daniel P. Corrigan & Markku Oksanen (eds.) - 2021 - Routledge.
    Rights of nature is an idea that has come of age. In recent years, a diverse range of countries and jurisdictions have adopted these norms, which involve granting legal rights to nature or natural objects, such as rivers, forests, or ecosystems. This book critically examines the idea of natural objects as right-holders, and analyses legal cases, policies, and philosophical issues relating to this development. -/- Drawing on contributions from a range of experts in the field, Rights of Nature: A Re-examination (...)
  5. Philosophy and Biodiversity.Markku Oksanen & Juhani Pietarinen - 2006 - Environmental Values 15 (1):124-127.
     
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    Philosophy and Biodiversity.Markku Oksanen & Juhani Pietarinen (eds.) - 2004 - New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
    This important collection focuses on the nature and importance of biodiversity. The concept is clarified and its intrinsic and instrumental value are discussed. Even though the term biodiversity was invented in the 1980s to promote the cause of species conservation, discussions on biological diversity go back to Plato. There are many controversies surrounding biodiversity and a few of them are examined here: What is worthy of protection or restoration and what is the acceptable level of costs? Is it permissible to (...)
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    The Moral Value of Biodiversity.Markku Oksanen - 1997 - Ambio 26 (8):541-545.
    The article considers how the preservation of biodiversity is morally justified in some of the key texts on environmental ethics, i.e. whether or not biodiversity can be justified as a moral end in itself. The views are classified according to the criteria which they hold to be the ultimate moral beneficiaries; positions are named as anthropocentrism, biocentrism and ecocentrism. In general, they are not in favor of regarding biodiversity as intrinsically valuable, but think its moral value as derivative. This means (...)
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    Ecological Restoration as Moral Reparation.Markku Oksanen - 2008 - Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 23:99-105.
    The notion of reparation in ethical, political and legal discourse has become popular in recent years. Reparation refers to a category of actions for which there are morally compelling reasons to perform due to wrongful action in the past. ‘Reparation’ is often, but not merely, used in the context of collective responsibility. The debate around the concept has mainly focussed on humans, but the wrongs done to humans can be indirect, such as contaminating the soil or polluting the air, in (...)
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    What's So Good About Biodiversity? A Call for Better Reasoning About Nature's Value.Markku Oksanen - 2015 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 18 (1):109-112.
    Though the term ‘biodiversity’ is a neologism, the many ideas behind it are timeless. Classifications of place, species, and landraces occur across cultures and have facilitated human survival. The...
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    (1 other version)Species Conservation and Minority Rights: The Case of Spring Time Bird Hunting.Elisa Aaltola & Markku Oksanen - 2002 - Environmental Values 11 (4):443-460.
    The article examines the case of springtime bird hunting in Åland from a moral point of view. In Åland springtime hunting has been a cultural practice for centuries but is now under investigation due to the EU Directive on the protection of birds. The main question of the article is whether restrictions on bird hunting have a sound basis. We approach this question by analysing three principles: The animal rights principle states that if hunting is not necessary for survival, it (...)
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    Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals and the Rest of Nature.Markku Oksanen - 2004 - Environmental Values 13 (2):261-263.
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  12. Rights of Nature: Exploring the Territory.Daniel P. Corrigan & Markku Oksanen - 2021 - In Daniel P. Corrigan & Markku Oksanen (eds.), Rights of Nature: A Re-examination. Routledge. pp. 1-13.
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    Towards Weather Ethics: From Chance to Choice with Weather Modification.Sanna Joronen, Markku Oksanen & Timo Vuorisalo - 2011 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 14 (1):55-67.
    The field of weather and climate ethics is a novel branch of applied ethics, based on environmental sciences and philosophy. Due to recent scientific findings concerning climate change, intentional weather and climate modification schemes have become even more relevant to finding feasible ways to moderate climate change and therefore are in need of careful analysis. When, if ever, can weather modification be deemed morally acceptable? The risks and adverse side-effects as well as indifference with regard to the limits of intervention (...)
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    Andy Lamey, Duty and the Beast: Should We Eat Meat in the Name of Animal Rights?.Markku Oksanen - 2021 - Environmental Values 30 (4):530-532.
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  15. Biodiversity considered philosophically: an introduction.Markku Oksanen - 2004 - In Markku Oksanen & Juhani Pietarinen (eds.), Philosophy and Biodiversity. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
     
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    Environmental Problem as a Philosophical Problem.Markku Oksanen - 2018 - Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 11:109-113.
    The philosophical study of the environment exists because philosophers are concerned about the environmental problems. This concern may not be the only factor that motivates to do environmental philosophy. For some scholars, the topic is philosophically intriguing. This paper suggests that two approaches can be distinguished: practical and philosophical. The starting point of the practical approach is the existence of environmental problems adopted from environmental sciences and public debates. These problems are then analysed philosophically so as to increase our understanding (...)
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  17. Green Liberalism: The Free and the Green Society.Markku Oksanen - 2001 - Environmental Values 10.
     
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  18. (1 other version)Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice.Markku Oksanen - 2005 - Environmental Values 14 (2):271-274.
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    On tackling the environmental crisis through human rights.Markku Oksanen - 2020 - Rivista di Estetica 75:104-119.
    There is broad scientific consensus on the anthropogenic roots of the environmental crisis, whether we think about biodiversity decline, climate change, pollution or, in general, about the increasing scarcity of ecological space for living entities. Unlike humans, other living beings have no notion of crisis and are probably not bothered by such highly abstract concerns. When a crisis occurs, non-humans either adapt or vanish, whereas humans may see it lurking ahead and become anxious. This human urge to reflect on the (...)
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    Species Extinction and Collective Responsibility.Markku Oksanen - 2007 - The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 3:179-183.
    In this article I explore, from a philosophical perspective, what the responsibility for biodiversity means. Biodiversity is a peculiar thing because it consists of the variety of life in its all manifestations, that is, in all its forms, levels and combinations. Variation is a main characteristic of life on earth. Because of its vastness a collective has not only a right but also a duty to take responsibility for biodiversity conservation, and furthermore it has a prima facie duty to implement (...)
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    Whose Biodiversity is In Trouble? A Commentary on Morar et al.Markku Oksanen - 2015 - Ethics, Policy and Environment 18 (1):38-40.
    Though the term ‘biodiversity’ is a neologism, the many ideas behind it are timeless. Classifications of place, species, and landraces occur across cultures and have facilitated human survival. The...
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    Environmental Human Rights: A Political Theory Perspective.Markku Oksanen, Ashley Dodsworth & Selina O'Doherty (eds.) - 2017 - Routledge.
    Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of table -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: environmental human rights and political theory -- 1 The rights of humans as ecologically embedded beings -- 2 Defining the natural in the Anthropocene: what does the right to a 'natural' environment mean now? -- 3 Reconciliation of nature and society: how far can rights take us? -- 4 The foundation of rights to nature -- 5 Rights to natural resources and (...)
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    Book Review: Green Liberalism. The Free and the Green Society. [REVIEW]Markku Oksanen - 2001 - Environmental Values 10 (4):550-551.
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    Dethroning Mineral King: Daniel P. Selmi: Dawn at Mineral King Valley. The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the rise of environmental law. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022, xiv + 347 pp, $30.00 HB. [REVIEW]Markku Oksanen - 2023 - Metascience 32 (3):329-331.
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    Review of Bryan G. Norton, Sustainability. [REVIEW]Markku Oksanen - 2007 - Environmental Values 16 (2):272-277.
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    Filosofisen feminismin ytimessä. [REVIEW]Markku Oksanen - 2018 - Ajatus 75 (1):411-422.
    Feministisessä filosofiassa on paljon pohdittu sitä, mitä sukupuolella tarkoitetaan ja miten sukupuoli on olemassa, ja ratkaisut näihin määrittävät sitä, keiden intressejä tai kenen emansipaatiota feministisen filosofian on tarkoitus edistää. Näitä kysymyksiä tarkastelee myös Mari Mikkola kirjassaan The Wrong of Injustice. Mikkola lähestyy aihepiiriä feministisestä filosofiasta käsin analyyttisellä otteella. Hän hyödyntää enimmäkseen feministisen filosofian kirjallisuutta, arvostellen siinä vallitsevia peruskäsityksiä naisesta ja ylipäänsä sukupuolesta, puolustaen niiden sijaan humanistista feminismiä. Siten vaikka ei olisi kiinnostunut feministisen filosofian keskusteluista vaan pikemminkin epäoikeudenmukaisuudesta, vääryydestä sekä ihmisyyden (...)
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  27. Review of M. Wissenburg, Green Liberalism: The Free and the Green Society. [REVIEW]Markku Oksanen - 2001 - Environmental Values 10:1.
     
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    Review of: William Throop (ed.), Environmental Restoration, and Paul H. Gobster and R. Bruce Hull (eds.), Restoring Nature: Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities. [REVIEW]Markku Oksanen - 2002 - Environmental Values 11 (2):249-250.
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