Arthur R Obst
Biographic Data
| ID | 4163662 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur R Obst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur R |
| FAMILY NAME | Obst |
| SIGNATURE | OBST A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0616-4132 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wilderness values in rewilding
This article re-investigates the underlying values driving the rapidly growing rewilding movement in Europe and North America. In doing so, we respond to a common academic narrative that draws a sharp distinction between North American and European approaches to rewilding. Whereas the first is said to promote a colonial vision of wilderness , European rewilding is claimed to value a more inclusive notion of wildness . We challenge this narrative …
Individual Responsibility and the Ethics of Hoping for a More Just Climate Future
Many have begun to despair that climate justice will prevail even in a minimal form. The affective dimensions of such despair, we suggest, threaten to make climate action appear too demanding. Thus, despair constitutes a moral challenge to individual climate action that has not yet received adequate attention. In response, we defend a duty to act in hope for a more just (climate) future. However, as we see it, this duty falls differentially upon …
Flying from History, Too Close to the Sun
There is a remarkable trend in contemporary environmentalism that emphasizes ‘accepting responsibility’ for the natural world in contrast to outdated preservationist thinking that shirks such responsibility. This approach is often explained and justified by reference to the anthropocene: this fundamentally new epoch—defined by human domination—requires active human intervention to avert planetary catastrophe. However, in this paper, I suggest thi…
Flying from History, Too Close to the Sun
There is a remarkable trend in contemporary environmentalism that emphasizes ‘accepting responsibility’ for the natural world in contrast to outdated preservationist thinking that shirks such responsibility. This approach is often explained and justified by reference to the anthropocene: this fundamentally new epoch—defined by human domination—requires active human intervention to avert planetary catastrophe. However, in this paper, I suggest thi…
Individual Responsibility and the Ethics of Hoping for a More Just Climate Future
Many have begun to despair that climate justice will prevail even in a minimal form. The affective dimensions of such despair, we suggest, threaten to make climate action appear too demanding. Thus, despair constitutes a moral challenge to individual climate action that has not yet received adequate attention. In response, we defend a duty to act in hope for a more just (climate) future. However, as we see it, this duty falls differentially upon …
Flying from History, Too Close to the Sun
There is a remarkable trend in contemporary environmentalism that emphasizes ‘accepting responsibility’ for the natural world in contrast to outdated preservationist thinking that shirks such responsibility. This approach is often explained and justified by reference to the anthropocene: this fundamentally new epoch—defined by human domination—requires active human intervention to avert planetary catastrophe. However, in this paper, I suggest thi…
Wilderness values in rewilding
This article re-investigates the underlying values driving the rapidly growing rewilding movement in Europe and North America. In doing so, we respond to a common academic narrative that draws a sharp distinction between North American and European approaches to rewilding. Whereas the first is said to promote a colonial vision of wilderness , European rewilding is claimed to value a more inclusive notion of wildness . We challenge this narrative …
Environmental ethics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (1 works)