Kyle Whyte

University of Michigan

440 Church Street

Dana Building

Ann Arbor, MI 48109

United States

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“  My research addresses environmental justice, focusing on moral and political issues concerning climate policy and Indigenous peoples, the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and science organizations, and problems of Indigenous justice in public and academic discussions of food sovereignty, environmental justice, and the anthropocene.  ”

Scholarly Papers (50)

1.

The Dakota Access Pipeline, Environmental Injustice, and U.S. Colonialism

Red Ink: An International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities, Issue 19.1, Spring 2017
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2021
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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Indigenous Experience, Environmental Justice and Settler Colonialism

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 27 Apr 2016
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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settler colonialism, decolonial theory, environmental justice, ecophenomenology, indigenous conservation, anthropocene

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What Do Indigenous Knowledges Do for Indigenous Peoples?

Forthcoming in Keepers of the Green World: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainability, edited by Melissa K. Nelson and Dan Shilling.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2017
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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Indigenous knowledge, indigenous governance, traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous resurgence

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Is it Colonial DéJà Vu? Indigenous Peoples and Climate Injustice

Forthcoming, Humanities for the Environment: Integrating Knowledges, Forging New Constellations of Practice. Edited by Joni Adamson, Michael Davis, and Hsinya Huang. Earthscan Publications. Pages 88-104.
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 Mar 2017
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
Downloads 3,106 (8,758)
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Our Ancestors’ Dystopia Now: Indigenous Conservation and the Anthropocene

Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 27 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2017
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
Downloads 3,036 (9,062)

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climate justice, indigenous peoples, ecological restoration, anthropocene, environmental justice, indigenous conservation

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Ethics of Caring in Environmental Ethics: Indigenous and Feminist Philosophies

The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics. Edited by Stephen M Gardiner and Allen Thompson, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 27 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 02 May 2016
Kyle Whyte and Chris J. Cuomo
University of Michigan and University of Georgia
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Care ethics, environmental ethics, Indigenous environmental ethics, feminist ethics, ecofeminism, climate justice, environmental justice, Indigenous social movements

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Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene

English Language Notes, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 02 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2017
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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Against Crisis Epistemology

Whyte, K. 2021. Against Crisis Epistemology. Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies. Edited b, A. Moreton-Robinson, L. Tuhiwai-Smith, C. Andersen, and S. Larkin, 52-64. Routledge.
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 24 Jul 2021
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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critical indigenous studies, climate crisis, indigenous time, indigenous knowledge, environmental justice

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Indigenous Food Sovereignty, Renewal and U.S. Settler Colonialism

The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 27 Apr 2016
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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food sovereignty, food justice, environmental justice, climate justice, indigenous peoples, indigenous foods, first foods

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Food Sovereignty, Justice and Indigenous Peoples: An Essay on Settler Colonialism and Collective Continuance

Whyte, K.P. 2017, Food Sovereignty, Justice and Indigenous Peoples: An Essay on Settler Colonialism and Collective Continuance. Oxford Handbook on Food Ethics. Edited by A. Barnhill, T. Doggett, and A. Egan. Oxford University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 06 Mar 2017
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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Is There a Right Way to Nudge? The Practice and Ethics of Choice Architecture

Sociology Compass, Vol. 5, No. 10, pp. 923-935
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 12 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2012
Evan Selinger and Kyle Whyte
Rochester Institute of Technology - Department of Philosophy and University of Michigan
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Climate Change Through an Intersectional Lens: Gendered Vulnerability and Resilience in Indigenous Communities in the United States

Vinyeta, Kirsten; Powys Whyte, Kyle; Lynn, Kathy. 2015. Climate change through an intersectional lens: gendered vulnerability and resilience in indigenous communities in the United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-923. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 27 Apr 2016
Kirsten Vinyeta, Kyle Whyte and Kathy Lynn
University of Oregon, College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Studies Program, Students, University of Michigan and University of Oregon
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How Similar Are Indigenous North American and Leopoldian Environmental Ethics?

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 15 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2015
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
Downloads 1,702 (22,693)
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Indigenous criticism of Leopold, Indigenous Environmental Ethics, Baird Callicott, Dan Shilling

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Indigenous Food Systems, Environmental Justice, and Settler-Industrial States

2015. In Global Food, Global Justice: Essays on Eating under Globalization. Edited by M. Rawlinson & C. Ward, 143-156, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Apr 2016
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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Nudging Healthy Lifestyles – Informing Regulatory Governance with Behavioural Research

European Journal of Risk Regulation, Vol. 3, No. 1, January 2012, HEC Paris Research Paper No. LAW-2013-981
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 18 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 23 May 2013
HEC Paris, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Philosophy, Independent, University of San Diego School of Law, University of Michigan and Rochester Institute of Technology - Department of Philosophy
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Nudge, Libertarian Paternalism, Behavioral, Lifestyle, Regulation

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Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change Loss and Damage, and the Responsibility of Settler States

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 27 Apr 2016
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
Downloads 1,178 (39,233)
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Time as Kinship

Forthcoming in 2021 in The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities, edited by Jeffrey Cohen (Arizona State University) and Stephanie Foote (West Virginia University): Cambridge University Press
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Apr 2021
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
Downloads 1,167 (39,816)

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Climate justice, Indigenous studies, environmental justice, climate crisis

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Way Beyond the Lifeboat: An Indigenous Allegory of Climate Justice

Forthcoming. Climate Futures: Reimagining Global Climate Justice (University of California Press), edited by Debashish Munshi, Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, and Priya Kurian.
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 24 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2017
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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climate justice, indigenous peoples, environmental justice, resilience, sustainability, lifeboat ethics

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The Recognition Dimensions of Environmental Justice in Indian Country

Environmental Justice, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 199-205
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 02 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2014
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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environmental justice, Native American environmental thought, environmental ethics, environmental policy, tribal governance, Indian environmental law

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Indigenous Environmental Movements and the Function of Governance Institutions

Whyte, K.P. 2016. Indigenous Environmental Movements and the Function of Governance Institutions. Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory. Edited by T. Gabrielson, C. Hall, J. Meyer & D. Schlosberg, 563-580. Oxford University Press.
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 27 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 02 May 2016
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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indigenous, indigenous environmental movements, indigenous environmental stewardship, environmental governance, environmental justice

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Nudging Cannot Solve Complex Policy Problems

European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2012
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 23 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2012
Evan Selinger and Kyle Whyte
Rochester Institute of Technology - Department of Philosophy and University of Michigan
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Nudge, Nudging Policy, Techno-Fix

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Food Justice and Collective Food Relations

Forthcoming. Food Justice and Collective Food Relations. The Ethics of Food: An Introductory Textbook. Edited by Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson and Tyler Doggett. Oxford University Press.
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2015
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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food justice, food sovereignty, right to food, first foods, Indigenous food

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Poverty Tourism and the Problem of Consent

Journal of Global Ethics, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 337-348, Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-22
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 01 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2014
Kyle Whyte, Evan Selinger and Kevin Outterson
University of Michigan, Rochester Institute of Technology - Department of Philosophy and Boston University School of Law
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Poverty tourism, poorism, exploitation, tourism ethics, fair trade

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Indigeneity and US Settler Colonialism

2016. In Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race. Edited by N. Zack, 91-101. Oxford University Press.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 27 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2017
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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Hunting and Morality as Elements of Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Human Ecology; Online First, 2011
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 15 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2012
Nicholas J. Reo and Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - School of Natural Resources & Environment and University of Michigan
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Ethics of Hunting, North American Indian Hunting, Environmental Values

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Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives

Number of pages: 109 Posted: 01 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2015
University of Arizona, Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, Alaska Native Science Commission, Salish Kootenai College, Tulalip Tribes, Yurok Tribe, University of Oregon, Quinault Management Center, Intertribal Timber Council, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, University of Oregon, National Wildlife Federation, University of Michigan, Haskell Indian Nations University and Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals
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Traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous knowledge, knowledge exchange, Native science

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Indigenous Women, Climate Change Impacts and Collective Action

2014. Hypatia: a Journal of Feminist Philosophy 29 (3): 599-616.
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 03 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2015
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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gender and climate change, climate justice, Indigenous peoples

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Indigeneity

Forthcoming in Keywords for Environmental Studies, edited by Joni Adamson , William A. Gleason and David Naguib Pellow. NYU Press
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 27 Apr 2016
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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Indigenous Peoples, Solar Radiation Management, and Consent

Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management, Lexington Books, 2012
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 12 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2014
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
Downloads 334 (194,511)

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Geoengineering, Indigenous Peoples, Solar Radiation Management, Consent

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An Environmental Justice Framework for Indigenous Tourism

Journal of Environmental Philosophy, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 75-92, 2010
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 11 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2013
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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Environmental Justice, Indigenous Tourism, Recognition Justice, Reality Tourism, Justice Tourism, Direct Participation

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Trust, Expertise and the Philosophy of Science

Synthese, Vol. 177, No. 3, pp. 411-425, 2010
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 01 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2014
Kyle Whyte and Robert Crease
University of Michigan and State University of New York (SUNY) - Stony Brook - Department of Philosophy
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Justice Forward: Tribes, Climate Adaptation and Responsibility

Climatic Change 120 (3) 117-130.
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 05 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2015
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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Environmental justice and indigenous peoples, climate justice and indigenous peoples, climate adaptation ethics

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Competence and Trust in Choice Architecture

Knowledge, Technology & Policy, Vol. 23, Nos. 3-4, pp. 461-482, 2010
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 01 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2011
Kyle Whyte and Evan Selinger
University of Michigan and Rochester Institute of Technology - Department of Philosophy
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Nudge, nudges, choice architecture, trust, expertise, competence, libertarian paternalism

On the Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as a Collaborative Concept: A Philosophical Study

Ecological Processes, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 03 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
Downloads 240 (272,531)

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Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge, Responsibility, Co-Management

On the Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as a Collaborative Concept: A Philosophical Study

Ecological Processes 2013, 2:7
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 27 Apr 2016
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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Poverty Tourism, Justice and Policy

Public Integrity, 2011 , Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-21, Boston Univ. School of Law, Law & Economics Research Paper No. 11-21
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 24 May 2011
Evan Selinger, Kevin Outterson and Kyle Whyte
Rochester Institute of Technology - Department of Philosophy, Boston University School of Law and University of Michigan
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Alternative tourism, distributive justice, recognition justice, procedural justice, poorism

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Nudge, Nudge or Shove, Shove — The Right Way for Nudges to Increase the Supply of Donated Cadaver Organs

The American Journal of Bioethics, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 31–38, 2012
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 17 Feb 2012
University of Michigan, Rochester Institute of Technology - Department of Philosophy, Arizona State University (ASU) and New York University (NYU) - Department of Population Health, Division of Medical Ethics
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decision making, end-of-life issues, organ transplantation

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Renewing Relatives: Nmé Stewardship in a Shared Watershed

Forthcoming (2014). Tales of Hope and Caution in Environmental Justice. A website for the Mellon Humanities for the Environment initiative.
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Apr 2016
Independent, Independent and University of Michigan
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Environmental Justice, Unknowability and Unqualified Affectability

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 06 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2013
Kristie Dotson and Kyle Whyte
Michigan State University - Department of Philosophy and University of Michigan
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environmental justice, moral terrains, corporeal affectivity, Robert Figueroa

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Changing Consultation

UC Davis Law Review, Forthcoming, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 360
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 27 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2020
University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Oregon and University of Michigan
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tribal consultation, extractive industry, indian country, tribal sovereignty

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Indigenous Masculinities in a Changing Climate: Vulnerability and Resilience in the United States

Men, Masculinities and Disaster. 2016. Edited by Elaine Enarson, Bob Pease. Routledge: Chapter 12
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 28 Jun 2016
Kirsten Vinyeta, Kyle Whyte and Kathy Lynn
University of Oregon, College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Studies Program, Students, University of Michigan and University of Oregon
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Climate change, indigenous peoples, feminism, gender, vulnerability, climate justice

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Environmental Education, Wicked Problems and Virtue

Philosophy of Education, 2011
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 14 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2014
Matt Ferkany and Kyle Whyte
Michigan State University - Department of Philosophy and University of Michigan
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Environmental education, wicked problems, public participation, environmental virtues, deliberative virtues, virtue ethics

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What Happens to Environmental Philosophy in a Wicked World?

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 28 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2011
Paul B. Thompson and Kyle Whyte
Michigan State University - Department of Philosophy and University of Michigan
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Collective Learning Processes, Sustainability Science, Wicked Problems, Environmental Ethics, Environmental Philosophy

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The Importance of Participatory Virtues in the Future of Environmental Education

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Online First, 2011
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 26 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2011
Matt Ferkany and Kyle Whyte
Michigan State University - Department of Philosophy and University of Michigan
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Environmental virtues, deliberative virtues, intellectual virtues, wicked problems, environmental education, environmental values, deliberative environmental politics, environmental ethics

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A Concern About Shifting Interactions between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Parties in US Climate Adaptation Contexts

Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 21 May 2014
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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climate justice, environmental justice, treaty rights, indigenous peoples, tribal jurisdiction, climate change adaptation, indigenous resilience, indigenous sustainability

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Now This! Indigenous Sovereignty, Political Obliviousness and Governance Models for Solar Radiation Management Research

Ethics, Policy & Environment 15 (2): 172-187.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2013
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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Weaving Indigenous Science, Protocols and Sustainability Science

Sustainability Science, 2015
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 27 Apr 2016
Kyle Whyte, Joseph Brewer and Jay Johnson
University of Michigan, University of Kansas and University of Kansas
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A Role for Ethical Analysis in Social Research on Agrifood and Environmental Standards

Journal of Rural Social Sciences, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 79-98, 2010
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2013
Kyle Whyte and Paul B. Thompson
University of Michigan and Michigan State University - Department of Philosophy
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Standards, ethics and science, technology ethics, philosophy and social science, Lawrence Busch

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Why Not Environmental Injustice?

Ethics, Place & Environment, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 333-336, 2010
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 01 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2011
Kyle Whyte
University of Michigan
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NIMBY, Environmental justice, procedural justice, recognition justice

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The Compatibility of Liberalism and Mandatory Environmental Education

Theory and Research in Education 0(0) 1–17
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 10 Dec 2012
Matt Ferkany and Kyle Whyte
Michigan State University - Department of Philosophy and University of Michigan
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Can You Drink Money? Integrating Organizational Perspective-Taking and Organizational Resilience in a Multi-level Systems Framework for Sustainability Leadership

Journal of Business Ethics, 168(3), 469-490. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-019-04219-3., The University of Auckland Business School Research Paper Series
Posted: 14 Jul 2022
University of Auckland Business School, University of Auckland Business School and University of Michigan

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Sustainability, Sustainability leadership, Ethical decision-making, Organizational perspective-taking, Organizational resilience, Organizational learning, Social ecological systems, Freshwater management, Environmental resource management