Ben Minteer
- Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
- Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
PO Box 874501
Tempe, AZ 85287
Phone:
480-965-4632
Email:
ben.minteer@asu.edu
Home Page:
http://sols.asu.edu/people/faculty/bminteer.php
Biography
Dr. Minteer is an environmental ethicist and policy scholar who studies issues at the intersection of environmental philosophy, environmental policy, and ecology. He is especially interested in the ethical justification of environmental policy goals, including the value foundations of policies and practices relating to biological conservation, ecological management, and the search for environmental sustainability. His recent work with James P. Collins (ASU-SoLS) has examined the ethical dimensions of ecological research and policy under planetary change, what Minteer and Collins call "ecological ethics." Dr. Minteer also studies the philosophical underpinnings and historical trajectory of American conservation and environmentalism. He teaches courses on environmental ethics and policy, and the human dimensions of conservation biology.
Expertise
ecological ethics; environmental policy; ethical and historical foundations of ecological management; ethical and historical foundations of sustainability; history of conservation/environmentalism; philosophy of conservation/environmentalism; environmental ethics; environmental philosophy; conservation biology; conservation policy;Courses
- BIO 324/PHI 310: Environmental Ethics
- BIO 412: Conservation in Practice
- SOS 591/BIO 591/494: Environmental Ethics and Policy Goals
Education
- Ph.D., Natural Resources, University of Vermont, 2000
- M.S., Natural Resources Planning, University of Vermont, 1996
- B.A., Anthropology, University of Albany, State University of New York, 1991
Journal Articles
Miller, T. R., B. A. Minteer and L. C. Malan. 2011. The new conservation debate: The view from practical ethics. Biological Conservation 144:948-957.
Minteer, B. A. and J. P. Collins. 2006. Response to Rominger. Conservation Biology 20:1341. (link)
Minteer, B. A. and J. P. Collins. 2005. Ecological ethics: Building a new tool kit for ecologists and biodiversity managers. Conservation Biology 19:1803-1812. (link)
Minteer, B. A. and J. P. Collins. 2005. Why we need an "ecological ethics". Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3:332-337. (link)
Minteer, B. A. and J. P. Collins. 2008. From environmental to ecological ethics: Towards a practical ethics for ecologists and conservationists. Science and Engineering Ethics 14:483-501. (link)
Minteer, B. A. and J. P. Collins. 2010. Move it or lose it? The ecological ethics of relocating species under climate change. Ecological Applications 20:1801-1804. (link)
Minteer, B. A. and J. P. Collins. 2012. Species conservation, rapid environmental change, and ecological ethics. Nature Education Knowledge 3:14. (link)
Minteer, B. and T. Miller. 2011. The new conservation debate: Ethical foundations strategic trade-offs, and policy opportunities. Biological Conservation 144:945-947.
Winston, J. M., B. A. Minteer and J. P. Collins. In press. Old wine, new bottles? Using history to inform the assisted colonization debate. Oryx.
Books and Book Chapters
Minteer, B. A. ed. 2011. Refounding Environmental Ethics: Pragmatism, Principle, and Practice. Temple University Press.
Minteer, B. A. ed. 2006. The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America. MIT Press.
Minteer, B. A. ed. 2009. Nature in Common? Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy. Temple University Press.
Minteer, B. A. and J. P. Collins. 2011. A practical ethics for ecologists and biodiversity managers. Pp. 140-160 In: B. Minteer A. ed. Refounding Environmental Ethics: Pragmatism, Principle, and Practice. Temple University Press.
Minteer, B. A. and J. P. Collins. In press. Ecosystems unbound: Ethical questions for an interventionist ecology. In: R. Sandler ed. Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Palgrave-Macmillan. 6/21/13.
Posters/Presentations
Miller, T. and B. Minteer. 2008. Parks, people and posterity: Reconsidering the ethical implications of international conservation. Poster presented July 14-15 at the Society for Conservations Biology Annual Meeting, Chattanooga, TN.
Miller, T. R. and B. A. Minteer. 2008. Parks, people and posterity: A normative analysis of international conservation. Poster presented February 1 Graduates in Earth, Life and Social Science (GELSS) Symposium, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Miller, T. R. and B. A. Minteer. 2007. An ecological ethics for a crowded planet: Assessing the normative foundations of an emerging ESA vision. Poster presented August 8 at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Abstract PS 19-180, San Jose, CA.
Miller, T. R. and B. A. Minteer. 2007. Parks, people and posterity: A normative analysis of international conservation projects. Poster presented June 18 at the annual meeting of International Symposium on Society and Resource Management; Abstract PC10, Park City, UT.
