2024
Bühr, Lorina
Picturing finitude: Photography of mountain glaciers as a multiple practice of dealing with environmental loss Journal Article
In: Environmental Values, 2024, ISSN: 0963-2719.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Climate change, Environmental sustainability, Media, Photography
@article{Bühr2024,
title = {Picturing finitude: Photography of mountain glaciers as a multiple practice of dealing with environmental loss},
author = {Lorina Bühr},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/09632719231221843},
doi = {10.1177/09632719231221843},
issn = {0963-2719},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-01-15},
urldate = {2024-01-15},
journal = {Environmental Values},
abstract = {In recent years, photographs and visualisations of glacier retreat have become emblematic images of climate change and its ecological consequences. This paper presents glacier photography as a subtype of environmental photography. I argue that photographs and photographic projects that focus on glacial retreat are best conceived not only as strategies for proving climate change or as visual rhetoric for social transformation, but also as a practice that potentially plays an integral role in dealing and coping with human-induced environmental loss. To this end, I draw on praxeological accounts in theory of photography and philosophy of art as well as some exemplary photographic projects to develop a framework to analyse glacier photography. With the help of this praxeological framework, multiple orientations in glacier photography are identified: epistemic, aesthetic, emotional and evocative, social, ethical, and political orientations. All these photographic orientations, I argue, point in their own way to the process and consequences of glacial disappearance and loss. The framework presented innovatively brings together scholarship on climate change visualisation, imagery and art, the theory of photography, and philosophical aesthetics.},
keywords = {Climate change, Environmental sustainability, Media, Photography},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
In recent years, photographs and visualisations of glacier retreat have become emblematic images of climate change and its ecological consequences. This paper presents glacier photography as a subtype of environmental photography. I argue that photographs and photographic projects that focus on glacial retreat are best conceived not only as strategies for proving climate change or as visual rhetoric for social transformation, but also as a practice that potentially plays an integral role in dealing and coping with human-induced environmental loss. To this end, I draw on praxeological accounts in theory of photography and philosophy of art as well as some exemplary photographic projects to develop a framework to analyse glacier photography. With the help of this praxeological framework, multiple orientations in glacier photography are identified: epistemic, aesthetic, emotional and evocative, social, ethical, and political orientations. All these photographic orientations, I argue, point in their own way to the process and consequences of glacial disappearance and loss. The framework presented innovatively brings together scholarship on climate change visualisation, imagery and art, the theory of photography, and philosophical aesthetics.
2023
Verweij, Marcel; Ossebaard, Hans
Sustainability as an Intrinsic Moral Concern for Solidaristic Health Care Journal Article
In: Health Care Analysis, 2023.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Climate change, Environmental pollution, Environmental sustainability
@article{Verweij2023,
title = {Sustainability as an Intrinsic Moral Concern for Solidaristic Health Care},
author = {Marcel Verweij and Hans Ossebaard },
url = {https://www.esdit.nl/s10728-023-00469-5/},
doi = {10.1007/s10728-023-00469-5},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-09-04},
urldate = {2023-09-04},
journal = {Health Care Analysis},
abstract = {Environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change have adverse impacts on global health. Somewhat paradoxically, health care systems that aim to prevent and cure disease are themselves major emitters and polluters. In this paper we develop a justification for the claim that solidaristic health care systems should include sustainability as one of the criteria for determining which health interventions are made available or reimbursed – and which not. There is however a complication: most adverse health effects due to climate change do occur elsewhere in the world. If solidarity would commit us to take care of everyone’s health, worldwide, it might imply that solidaristic health system cannot justifiably restrict universal access to their own national populations. In response we explain health solidarity is to be considered as a moral ideal. Such an ideal does not specify what societies owe to whom, but it does have moral implications. We argue that ignoring sustainability in political decision making about what health care is to be offered, would amount to betrayal of the ideal of solidarity.},
keywords = {Climate change, Environmental pollution, Environmental sustainability},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change have adverse impacts on global health. Somewhat paradoxically, health care systems that aim to prevent and cure disease are themselves major emitters and polluters. In this paper we develop a justification for the claim that solidaristic health care systems should include sustainability as one of the criteria for determining which health interventions are made available or reimbursed – and which not. There is however a complication: most adverse health effects due to climate change do occur elsewhere in the world. If solidarity would commit us to take care of everyone’s health, worldwide, it might imply that solidaristic health system cannot justifiably restrict universal access to their own national populations. In response we explain health solidarity is to be considered as a moral ideal. Such an ideal does not specify what societies owe to whom, but it does have moral implications. We argue that ignoring sustainability in political decision making about what health care is to be offered, would amount to betrayal of the ideal of solidarity.