Dr Helen Kopnina
The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Faculty Member, Environmental Sciences
Netherlands
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My Publications
Exploration of treatment of plants and sustainability in the cities
Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability
October 2018
In human-controlled environments and in cultivated landscapes, the plants accommodate social, cultural and economic needs. This article will focus on the use of plants for agriculture, urban planni...
Ecological justice in conservation
Biological Conservation
October 2018
‘Justice’ in conservation is a confused term, focusing primarily on social justice. Environmental justice remains focused on justice for humans on environmental issues. Anthropocentric bias means t...
Sustainable Business: Key Issues (second edition)
April 2018
Sustainable Business: Key Issues is the first comprehensive introductory-level textbook to address the interface between environmental challenges and business solutions to provide an overview of th...
Discussing why ecocentric ethic is most suitable for the practical task of conservation
Conservation Biology
March 2018
In this article we take a closer look at the explicit ecocentric roots of the discipline of conservation biology, and we note that a growing number of conservationists have recently voiced support ...
Anthropocentrism is a bigger problem than some philosophers have assumed
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
January 2018
Anthropocentrism, in its original connotation in environmental ethics, is the belief that value is human-centered and that all other beings are means to human ends. Environmentally -concerned autho...
Using a circular economy and Cradle to Cradle case studies in business education
Journal of Cleaner Production
May 2019
Closed-loop or ‘circular’ production systems known as Circular Economy and Cradle to Cradle represent a unique opportunity to radically revise the currently wasteful system of production. One of th...
Engaging with violence and animal rights in anthropology
Critique of Anthropology
August 2017
Multispecies ethnographers are studying the host of organisms whose lives and deaths are linked to human social worlds. Yet, these ethnographies rarely engage with violence and animal rights involv...
If we want a whole Earth, Nature Needs Half
Oryx
April 2017
Defending the vision of 'Nature Needs Half': Intraspecies justice—justice for people—should not come at the expense of interspecies justice: the very existence of other species. Nature Needs Half p...
Teaching about Sustainable Development Goals: Critical approach
Environmental Education Research
March 2017
Comparison of critical environmental education at Leiden University and The Hague University of Applied science in regard to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDGs are discussed as highly parad...
Selling nature: a good idea for conservation?
Environmental Conservation
November 2016
Does putting a price on nature help to protect it? What are social justice advocates and ecological justice proponents object to when it comes to economic valuing of natural resources?
Addressing ethical questions in conservation
Biological Conservation
November 2016
Preserving global biodiversity depends upon designating many more large terrestrial and marine areas as strictly protected areas. Yet recent calls for addressing biodiversity loss by setting aside ...
Dichotomies between nature and culture or humans and environment: good or bad?
Anthropological Forum
October 2016
Dichotomies between nature and culture or humans and environment are discussed. Both what might be termed deep ecology scholars as well as more ecumenical, post-modern, open, inclusive, plural, ant...
Discussing dichotomies between nature and culture with colleagues
Anthropological Forum
October 2016
This article is about about the dichotomy between nature and culture or humans - a response to anthropologists who wrote comments on my original article in the same issue of this journal: Kopnina,...
Wild Animals and Justice
Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy
July 2016
This article focuses on engagements with elephants in diverse contexts, inquiring why some scholars are indifferent or even actively opposed to discourses that emphasise elephant suffering. In ord...
Exploring cooperation between NGO and corporation: can sustainability and business be c...
Journal of Consumer Culture
August 2016
Exploring cooperation between World Wide Fund for Nature and a major Dutch supermarket chain
Environmental Anthropology
August 2016
Environmental Anthropology studies historic and present human-environment interactions. This volume illustrates the ways in which today's environmental anthropologists are constructing new paradigm...
Of big hegemonies and little tigers: Ecocentrism and environmental justice
The Journal of Environmental Education
March 2016
This is an invited response to the article in The Journal of Environmental Education on the subject of environmental justice where I argue that not just social but also ecological justice should be...
The victims of unsustainability: a challenge to sustainable development goals
International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology
November 2015
This article challenges human -centerdness of sustainable development goals
Sustainability: new strategies for business
Environment Development and Sustainability
October 2015
This article discusses key strategies for sustainable business, particularly addressing unsustainable production and population pressures as central challenges. Corporate social responsibility inve...
Conservation: Integrating Social and Ecological Justice
January 2020
This book provides a summary of all major environmental theories, based on case studies from all over the world. It demonstrates the link between social theories and environmental policies and advo...
Critical evaluation of education for sustainable development goals
The Journal of Environmental Education
January 2020
Business Students Learning Active Citizenship from Environmentalists
Education Sciences
November 2019
Chapter from book East to West Migration
October 2019
a chapter from East to West Migration
October 2019
a chapter from East to West Migration
October 2019
a chapter from East to West Migration
October 2019
Ethical Approaches to Conservation
August 2019
Teaching circular economy, identifying greenwashing and best case studies
Philosophy of Management
January 2019
Ecocentric Education: definitions, concepts, applications
January 2019
What is the prevalence and characteristics of ecocentric education?
January 2019
Ecocentric Education
January 2019
Book review The nature of spectacle by Jim Igoe
The Journal of Peasant Studies
July 2018
Chapter from a book Sustainable Business: Key issues
April 2018
Chapter from a book Sustainable Business: Key issues
April 2018
Chapter from a book Sustainable Business: Key issues
April 2018
Introduction to Sustainable Business
April 2018
correction to article The ‘future of conservation’ debate'
Biological Conservation
February 2018
“The ‘future of conservation’ debate
Biological Conservation
January 2018
Circular economy and Cradle to Cradle in educational practice
Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences
January 2018
Teaching undergraduate course on circular economy
January 2018
Justice in conservation
January 2018
Teaching circular economy
December 2017
Teaching students about Circular Economy and overcoming greenwashing
November 2017
Teaching About Sustainable Production and Consumption
November 2017
Conservation that integrates social and ecological Justice
October 2017
Testing ecocentric and anthropocentric values in students
REBRAE - Revista Brasileira de Estrategia
August 2017
Application of Environmental Attitudes Measuring Scale
Education Sciences
August 2017
Testing environmental values scale
European Journal of Sociology and Anthropology
June 2017
Testing Ecocentric and Anthropocentric Attitudes toward the Sustainable Development (EA...
European Journal of Sociology and Anthropology
June 2017
Human nature and sustainability
Journal of Cleaner Production
April 2017
Education for sustainability
February 2017
Envisioning futures for environmental and sustainability education
October 2016
Asthma and Air Pollution
April 2016
Teaching circular economy
April 2016
Why silence on population growth?
Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment
April 2016
Neoliberalism and justice in education for sustainable development
Environmental Education Research
March 2016
Vehicular air pollution and asthma
Local Environment
March 2016
Environmental Identity and Natural Resources:
Resources
February 2016
Erratum to “Reconciling Social and Biological Justice” [Biological Conservation 184 (20...
Biological Conservation
February 2016
Challenging economic development
Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences
January 2016
Reflection on debate "Justice for people must come before justice for the environment"
Anthropological Forum
January 2016
Energy Policy in the European Union: Renewable Energy and the Risks of Subversion
January 2016
Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, and Deep Ecology in Environmental Education
Education Sciences
November 2015
Neoliberalism, pluralism and environmental education
Environmental Development
July 2015
Love of nature (biophilia) in different cultures
Environmental Sociology
June 2015
Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook
June 2015
What is more sustainable: paper or digital reading materials?
June 2015
Urban sustainability: Discussing wild greenery
Urban Ecosystems
April 2015
How to combine social justice and ecological justice
Biological Conservation
April 2015
Discussing film about the radical environmental movement with business students.
Journal of Education for Sustainable Development
March 2015
Exploring how business students relate to nature and economic develoment
Environmental Education Research
February 2015
Tiger conservation and democratic decision-making
January 2015
Book review ‘The World Hunt: An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals’
Biological Conservation
December 2014
Anthropocentrism (human-centerdness) critique
Dialectical Anthropology
November 2014
Discussing sustainability, nature and economic development
Sustainability
October 2014
Review of our book Environmental anthropology: Future directions by Tracey Heatherington
Anthropological Forum
October 2014
How can education for sustainable development take environment into consideration
Environmental Development
October 2014
Environmental ethics in relation to environmental education
Culture Unbound Journal of Current Cultural Research
September 2014
Discussing justice between species in education
Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment
September 2014
Sustainability in environmental education: new strategic thinking
Environment Development and Sustainability
September 2014
Sustainable Business
August 2014
Future scenarios in environment and education
The Journal of Environmental Education
August 2014
Animals in Dutch media
Environmental Processes
June 2014
Children's ideas about sustainable development and environmental ethics
Studies In Educational Evaluation
June 2014
Education for sustainable development
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
April 2014
Discussing ‘Nature’ and ‘Development’ with Students of Sustainable Business
Journal of Education for Sustainable Development
March 2014
Christmas shopping, consumption and the challenge of sustainability
Sustainable Cities and Society
February 2014
Discussing radical environmentalism with business students
International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development
January 2014
Nature-culture relationship and ethics
Earth Perspectives
January 2014
Paradoxes of Sustainable Development
Anthropology
January 2014
Maurice Godelier's Metamorphoses of Kinship
Anthropological Forum
December 2013
Urban planning, arks and sustainability
Sustainable Cities and Society
December 2013
Unsustainable consumption in The Netherlands
Environment Systems & Decisions
August 2013
Environmental anthropology
June 2013
Discussing how the concept of biodiversity in the context of sustainability
Journal of Education for Sustainable Development
March 2013
Human nature and (un)sustainability
Journal of Ecological Anthropology
January 2013
Children's attitudes to consumption
The Journal of Environmental Education
January 2013
Anthropology and sustainable development
International Journal of Educational Research
January 2013
Book review by Patricia K. Townsend of our book Environmental Anthropology Today
Human Ecology
December 2012
Love of nature: The Lorax complex
Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences
December 2012
How children from different socio-economic backgrounds think about cars and sustainability
Transport Policy
November 2012
Measuring environmental attitudes
Environment Development and Sustainability
October 2012
Has education for sustainable development turned away from environment?
Environmental Education Research
October 2012
How children think about nature
The Environmentalist
May 2012
Conservation in anthropology: exposing anthropocentrism
Dialectical Anthropology
March 2012
Culture and conservation: exploring ethics
Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences
March 2012
Alternative Treatment for Asthma: Case Study of Success of Traditional Chinese Medicine...
ISRN Allergy
January 2012
Education for Sustainable Development: Examining Anthropocentric Bias
Sustainable Development
November 2011
Environmental Anthropology: An overview
August 2011
Kids and cars: Environmental attitudes in children
Transport Policy
August 2011
Helping chronically ill employees to stay at work
BMC Health Services Research
May 2011
Book review on the subject of migration
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
May 2011
What do kids think about consumption?
The Environmentalist
March 2011
Asthma patients and medication doubts
Journal of Asthma
June 2010
Asthma patients' view on side-effects of prescribed medicine and alternative treatments
Patient Preference and Adherence
June 2010
Reflecting on sustainability behavior and human nature
Jadavpur Journal of International Relations
June 2010
Disability management at work
Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation
April 2010
Book review Indigenous diasporas and dislocations
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
September 2009
Review of our book Crossing European Boundaries
Critique of Anthropology
March 2008
Exploring the Role of Culture(s) in International Fashion Magazines
Dialectical Anthropology
November 2007
Russian migrants in Europe
Slavic Review
January 2007
What does "Europe without boundaries" imply?
December 2005
Cultural Boundaries in Singapore Chinese Small and Medium Enterprises
Asia Pacific Business Review
December 2005
Discourses on ethnicity in Singaporean SMEs
Asian Ethnicity
June 2004
Educating for Environmental Justice
Biodegradable
Earth Day
Encyclopedia entry 'Suburbs'
Russian migrants in London and Amsterdam
Preface and Acknowledgements to book Crossing European Boundaries
Crossing European Boundaries
Introduction to edited volume Sustainability: Key Issues
An introduction to environmental anthropology
