Andrew Rowan, DPhil Archive

Sep 19, 2024

Posted at 15:31h In Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Well-being, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By

A report by Frank and Sudarshan, ecological economists at the University of Chicago, provides an excellent example of how human and environmental well-being is connected to the well-being of animals – in this case, to the health of the vulture population in India. Ecological economics,...

Sep 19, 2024

Posted at 14:18h In Climate Change, Environment Well-being, Ethics, Regulation, Law, WellBeing News - By

Multiple organizations, including the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), are actively monitoring and documenting the increase in climate-related legal cases in the 21st century. The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, established in 2009, maintains a global database of climate litigation. It...

Aug 29, 2024

Posted at 15:42h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Articles, Farm Animals, Tales of WellBeing - By

In the early 21st century, several animal protection organizations in the United States were collectively spending approximately $6 million annually on farmed animal welfare campaigns. In contrast, the animal agriculture industry was worth over a hundred billion dollars in the country, and few advocates believed...

Aug 29, 2024

Posted at 15:40h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By and

The tiger, a creature of almost mystical, magical, and majestic allure and the subject of Blake's famous 1794 poem Tyger, is battling for survival in its final refuges in Thailand and Myanmar in Southeast Asia. The populations of tigers in the neighboring countries of Cambodia,...

Aug 29, 2024

Posted at 15:38h In Animal Sentience, Book Review, Tales of WellBeing - By

Peter Singer is an Australian philosopher widely regarded as the "father" of the modern "Animal Rights" movement. However, as a Utilitarian, Singer does not agree with rights-based philosophical arguments. Like Jeremy Bentham, who argued that the criterion placing animals on the moral scale was their...

Jul 24, 2024

Posted at 13:43h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By

The Wilderness Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 3, 1964. The USA system of wilderness areas now includes over 800 areas covering more than 110 million acres. Currently, all but six states—Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, and Rhode Island—have...

Jul 24, 2024

Posted at 11:10h In Animal Sentience, Book Review, Tales of WellBeing - By

Author David M. Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D., loves intellectual challenges. Previously, he wrote an article on whether or not animals can commit suicide, which has been downloaded over 44,000 times from the WellBeing International Studies Repository since its publication in late 2017. Now, the author has shifted...

Jul 08, 2024

Posted at 10:35h In Climate Change, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Land Management, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Sustainability/Biodiversity - By

On Monday, June 17, 2024, 20 out of the 27 countries in the European Union (EU) voted to adopt the world's first Nature Restoration Law. The law passed with a slim majority, as Leonore Gewessler, the Austrian Minister for Climate Action, decided at the last...

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