Some have gone beyond postmodernism to advocate a post-environmentalism approach to environmental management (environmentalism is a reformist philosophy which tends to maintain a distinction between human affairs and nature; post-environmentalism seeks to reduce that separation when developing environmental ethics) (Pearce et al., 1989, 1990, 1991; Barde and Pearce, 1990; Pearce and Turner, 1990; Gare, 1995).