Ethics, Place and Environment

EDITOR

EDITOR FOR THE AMERICAS

EDITOR FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

REVIEW EDITOR

INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD

The central aim of Ethics, Place and Environment is to provide a forum for the publication of research and scholarship on all aspects of geographical and environmental ethics.

The journal’s title seeks to provide an indication of its focus on all aspects of geographical and environmental ethics. The use of the word ‘place’ highlights geographers’ concerns with the interaction between peoples and environments that creates particular places. ‘Environment’ is used in a very broad sense to emphasise not only physical and biological environments, but also social and cultural environments. Geographers working on ethical issues have been concerned with a wide range of subjects, from animal rights, to questions of justice in urban society, development ethics, cartography, and the construction of cultural values. Ethics, Place and Environment will be the first choice publication for such research. The journal will be of particular relevance to a wide range of other disciplines, including Environmental Studies, Philosophy (particularly Ethics and Environmental Philosophy), Law, Cultural Studies, Ecology and Economics. Other disciplines for which the journal will have relevance include Urban Planning, Sociology, Anthropology and Theology.

Since the 1980s, there has been a growing concern within a range of academic disciplines about the ethical implications of research practices, and indeed about the very constitution of ethics. This is particularly true of geographers, with their focus on the ethical implications of human behaviour in place and their interests at the interface between human and physical environments. There is an equally important tradition of such concerns within the field of environmental studies. With the expansion of environmental movements in the 1970s, the development of environmental studies programmes in universities, and the increase in environmental legislation in the 1980s and 1990s, there is now a wealth of material published on environmental ethics. There is also considerable interest in the development of so-called Green investment portfolios, and the links between environmental ethics and business are receiving increasing attention. Ethics, Place and Environment is specifically designed to provide an attractive forum for publication of the highest quality research in these burgeoning fields.

Each issue will include mainline papers, short contributions and reviews. Mainline papers will include both original scholarly research papers and reviews of key thematic issues. Short contributions will include shorter research notes, commentaries on previous articles, conference reports, letters and debates. A key feature of the journal will be that it will seek to publish commentaries on ethical issues relating to national and international environmental legislation. The reviews section will provide stimulating reviews of recent material in the fields of geographical and environmental ethics.

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