Martin Drenthen

Martin Drenthen is Associate Professor of Environmental Philosophy at the Institute for Science in Society (ISiS) at Radboud University in Nijmegen (Netherlands).

His research topics include environmental hermeneutics, ethics of place, philosophy of landscape, the ethics of environmental restoration and rewilding, and the ethics of wolf resurgence. He was project leader of the research project 'Reading the Landscape' which focuses on the relation between notions of moral identity and interpretations of landscape in ethical issues regarding rewilding and landscape conservation. Currently, his research focuses on ethical issues related to cohabitation with wildlife, notably wolf resurgence in Western Europe. Earlier, he was also senior researcher at the European research project BIOMOT, where he focused on narrative accounts of the meaning of nature as complement to or alternative for the language of ecosystem service to express the value of biodiversity.

Martin is the Netherlands representative for the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) and European representative for the International Association of Environmental Philosophy (IAEP). He is member of the General Editorial Board of Environmental Values, and of the Greater Yellowstone College Advisory Board.

He published extensively on environmental philosophy in both Dutch and English. His 2003 book 'Grenzen aan wildheid' ['Bordering Wildness', in Dutch], on the significance of Nietzsche's critique of morality for environmental ethics. His 2018 book, Natuur in mensenland [in Dutch] examines the role of wildness and so-called new nature and rewilding in old cultural landscapes. His latest book 'Hek' ['Fence'in Dutch'] examines the ethics of the border between agricultural land and nature areas.

More information: http://staff.science.ru.nl/drenthen/