Enforcing Environmental Ethics: Civic Law and Natural Value
— Sterba, Social & Political Philosophy 2001

"Enforcing Environmental Ethics: Civic Law and Natural Value." Pages 349-369 in James P. Sterba, ed., Social and Political Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2001. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37603

How far can and ought environmental values can be protected and enforced by legislation? Environmental regulation extends from Acts of Congress to lighting campfires and enforcement is widespread. The environment is a commons and this necessitates a public ethic where humans have benefits and harms at stake and must act in concert for protection. Environmental legislation can and ought protect animals, species, and ecosystems as well as humans--sometimes ever defending these against basic human interests.

“Civic law and natural value: enforcing environmental ethics” Reprinted (in part) in Environmental Law News, Special Yosemite Commemorative Issue, October 2011, pp. 23-28. Publication of the Environmental Law Section of the State Bar of California. The State Bar of California, Environmental Law Section, 180 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-1639. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/48102

Reprinted (in part) in International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education (International Geographical Union, Channel View Publications, Clevedon, UK): 11 (no. 1, 2002):76-79.