EurSafe 2012 Committees -- Preface -- Keynote contributions Domains of climate ethics: an overview -- The global governance of climate change, forests, water, and food: normative challenges -- The willed blindness of humans: animal welfare and beyond -- Section 1. Sustainability: general issues -- Which sustainability suits you? -- The value(s) of sustainability within a pragmatically justified theory of values: considerations in the context of climate change -- Towards an ecological space paradigm: fair and sustainable distribution of environmental resources -- Section 2. Property rights and commons -- Addressing the commons: normative approaches to common pool resources -- A global solution to land grabbing? An institutional cosmopolitan approach -- Climate change, intellectual property rights and global justice -- Section 3. Global warming and climate change -- Global warming, ethics, and cultural criticism -- The ethics of climate change denial -- World wide views on global warming: evaluation of a public debate -- The truth is that we have an inconvenient nature -- Section 4. Ethics, adaptation & mitigation -- A climate tax on meat? -- Acting now or later? Determining an adequate decision strategy for mitigation measures addressing methane emissions from ruminants -- Equal per capita entitlements to greenhouse gas emissions: a justice based-critique -- Section 5. Ethics of non-agricultural land-management -- Managing nature parks as an ethical challenge: a proposal for a practical tool to identify fundamental questions -- The citizens forest model: climate change, preservation of natural resources and forest ethics -- 'Good change' in the woods: conceptual and ethical perspectives on integrating sustainable land-use and biodiversity protection -- Section 6. Environmental & agricultural ethics -- A collective virtue approach to agricultural ethics -- Providing grounds for agricultural ethics: the wider philosophical significance of plant life integrity -- Do algae have moral standing? On exploitation, ethical extension and climate change mitigation -- Animistic pragmatism and native ways of knowing: adaptive strategies for responding to environmental change and overcoming the struggle for food in the Arctic -- Section 7. Intensive vs. extensive production: animal welfare, efficiency and environmental implications -- Sustainability, animal welfare and ethical food policy: a comparative analysis of sustainable intensification and holistic integrative naturalism -- 'All that is solid melts into air': the Dutch debate about factory farming -- Adaptive capacities from an animal welfare perspective -- Agriculture's 6 Fs and the need for more intensive agriculture -- Feed efficiencies in animal production: a non-numerical analysis -- For the benefit of the land? Ethical aspects of the impact of meat production on nature, the environment and the countryside -- Fewer burps in your burgers or more birds in the bush? -- Inconvenient truths and agricultural emissions -- Section 8. Agro-energy -- The ethics of using agricultural land to produce biomass: using energy like it grows on trees -- Setting the rules of the game: ethical and legal issues raised by bioenergy governance methods -- India's agrofuel policies from a feminist-environmentalist perspective -- Grafting our biobased economies on African roots? -- Section 9. Food policy -- Transformation of food governance models: perspectives arisen from a food citizenship -- Food policy and climate change: uncovering the missing links -- Sustainable food policies for the EU27: results from the EUPOPP project -- An ethical argument for vigilant prevention -- Liability versus responsibility: the food industry case -- Integrated assessments of emerging food technologies - some options and challenges -- Addressing farmers or traders: socio-ethical issues in developing a national action plan for sustainable crop protection -- Section 10. Food in context -- This is or is not food: framing malnutrition, obesity and healthy eating -- Food as art: poiēsis and the importance of soft impacts -- Conflicting food production values: global free market or local production? -- Toward sustainable agriculture and food production: an ethically sound vision for the future -- Section 11. Fish for food -- Changing an iconic species by biotechnology: the case of Norwegian salmon -- Why German consumers need to reconsider their preferences: the ethical argument for aquaculture -- Fish for food in a challenged climate: ethical reflections -- Section 12. Food and sustainability -- A theoretical framework to analyse sustainability relevant food choices from a cultural perspective: caring for food and sustainability in a pluralistic society -- Food, sustainability and ecological responsibility: hunger as the negation of human rights -- Cultured meat: will it separate us from nature? -- Section 13. Consumers and consuming -- Gender differences in pro-social behaviour: the case of Fair Trade food consumers -- Employing a normative conception of sustainability to reason and specify green consumerism -- Are we morally obliged to become vegans? -- Food ethics: new religion or common sense? -- Section 14. Science and governance -- Climate change and biodiversity: a need for 'reflexive interdisciplinarity' -- Changing societies: ethical questions raised by ANR-funded research programs and projects related to climate and environmental change -- Examining the inclusion of ethics and social issues in bioscience research: concepts of 'reflection' in science -- Biochar for smallholder farmers in East Africa: arguing for transdisciplinary research -- Section 15. Values for governance -- Biotechnology and a new approach to a theory of values -- Towards a value-reflexive governance of water -- Mapping core values and ethical principles for livelihoods in Asia -- Section 16. Biotechnology in context -- Conflict cloud green genetic engineering: structuring and visualizing the controversy over biotechnology in agriculture -- Maize as a cultural element of identity and as a biological being: narratives of Mexican children on the transgenic maize debate and the importance of knowing the context -- Implementation of ethical standards in a cattle improvement company -- Section 17. Animal ethics -- Leaving the ivory tower or back into theory? Learning from paradigm cases in animal ethics -- From just using animals to a justification of animal use: the intrinsic value of animals as a confusing start -- Daniel Haybron's theory of welfare and its implications for animal welfare assessment -- Cognitive relatives yet moral strangers? Killing great apes and dolphins for food -- Assessing the animal ethics review process -- Investigating the existence of an 'Animal Kuznets curve' in the EU-15 countries -- The Chinese animal: from food to pet -- Section 18. Ethics teaching -- Bringing animal ethics teaching into the public domain: the Animalogos experience -- Teaching sustainability and ethics -- Teaching sustainable development and environmental ethics: the IBMB-concept of bringing theory and practical cases together -- Section 19. Ethical matrix and learning instruments -- The Mepham Matrix and the importance of institutions in food and agricultural ethics -- The ethical matrix as an instrument for teaching and evaluation -- Food ethics for an active citizenry: AgroFood Democracy - an active learning tool -- Author index -- Keyword index.