The Center for Humans and Nature:
Mission: To explore and promote moral and civic responsibilities to human communities and to natural ecosystems and landscapes.
Objectives: The Center for Humans and Nature promotes greater conservation, biological and cultural diversity, health, and social justice in the interactions between natural systems and human communities. It aims to define and express a new vision of ethical responsibility and ecological citizenship. It pursues its mission through a three-pronged strategy of (1) philosophical and historical research, (2) ethics, scientific, and civic education, and (3) policy analysis, regional planning, and regional civic action.
Collaboration: The Center for Humans and Nature collaborates with CSVPA on a range of initiatives of common interest:
The Biosphere Ethics Project,
Keeping Nature Alive; the ethical foundations of nature conservation in the 21st century,
IUCN Commission on Environmental Law - Ethics Specialist Group.
Materials:
WCC4 outcomes:
Contact: Kathryn Kintzele, Co-Chair, Biosphere Ethics Project.
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