Housing allowances have become increasingly important policy instruments in the advanced welfare states. Operating at the interface between housing and social security policy, they provide means-test
World history is a distinct field of study which falls under the umbrella of historical studies. It studies and analyses patterns across cultures from all around the world. The world history can be di
The old idea of nature as already given is challenged by a growing consciousness of the anthropogenic origin of our modern nature. We cannot any longer rely on nature as an unlimited resource for our
There is no education that can avoid being political. Still, the question is, in what sense is education political, and if all education must be political, to what extent politics must be made the exp
This third volume of the journal Eco-ethica is now being published by LIT Verlag (Germany). The main theme of this bilingual, English-French volume is that of a group of philosophers who examine the r
The main theme of volume 5 of Eco-ethica is "Ethics and Environment", offering a serious take on the social-environmental crisis that our world suffers from today. In the first part the authors look a
Japanese philosopher Tomonobu Imamichi (1922-2012) coined the term eco-ethica to name the ethics of the human world newly enlarged by technology and culture, and the annual journal publishes papers
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