With the support of THINKClima and the UPF-CAE, Núria Almiron and Catia Faria have edited a special issue on environmental and animal defense published by the American Behavioral Scientist journal.

The controversy between the ultimate aims of environmental defense, on one hand, and animal defense, on the other, is a much unexplored topic. This special issue aims to fill this gap by gathering original thinking and outstanding research connected to the topics. We hope the unique discussion provided in this special issue is of help to philosophers, animal and environmental ethicists, critical animal studies scholars, and environmental sociologists, as well as to researchers in the fields of advocacy, communication, ecology, psychology, and anthrozoology.

 The special issue includes the following papers:

Almiron, N. & Faria, C. (2019). Environmental and Animal Defense. (Introduction by the editors)

Almiron, N. (2019). Greening Animal Defense? Examining Whether Appealing to Climate Change and the Environment Is an Effective Advocacy Strategy to Reduce Oppression of Nonhumans

Faria, C. & Paez, E. (2019). It’s Splitsville: Why Animal Ethics and Environmental Ethics Are Incompatible.

Fernández, L. (2019). Using Images of Farmed Animals in Environmental Advocacy: An Antispeciesist, Strategic Visual Communication Proposal

Kemmerer, L. (2019). The Interconnected Nature of Anymal and Earth Activism

Stanescu, V. (2019). Selling Eden: Environmentalism, Local Meat, and the Postcommodity Fetish

Waldhorn, D. (2019). Toward a New Framework for Understanding Human–Wild Animal Relations