8th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Environmental Ethics:
"Old World and New World Perspectives on Environmental Philosophy"
14-17 June 2011
Nijmegen, Netherlands
The intended establishment of a European Network for Environmental Ethics in 2011 is a nice occasion for ISEE to have its next annual meeting in Europe. The meeting will focus on differences between Old World and New World perspectives on a range of topics in environmental philosophy including nature, landscape, wilderness, history and many others. Our hope is to attract a broad cross-section of the environmental philosophy community from America, Europe, and other continents. The conference plan includes free time for hiking/cycling and conversation. With ample time for excursions conference participants will be able to discuss issues such as the conflicts between ecological restoration and cultural landscape protection in their real life context. We will visit some demonstration projects for the conservation of cultural landscape, that show how landscapes can be improved through the use of traditional (agricultural) land use practices. In addition, we will visit ecological restoration projects along the borders of the Rhine that attempt to 'liberate the land from past human interventions' and create ‘new wilderness’. Environmentalists from different groups representing different views will be invited to take part in our debates.