Abstract
Abstract The history of garden culture and the design of gardens and landscapes is also a history of changing ethical and moral approaches to nature in general and of professional ethics of landscape designers and nature preservationists in particular. This is the first special issue of the Journal of Garden History dedicated to the ethical and moral dimensions of garden and landscape design as part of the human appropriation of nature. In the following, the questions of ethics and morality are focused on normative ethics, the tasks of which are defined in the Encyclopaedia of Philosophy as: ‘to criticize irrational moral beliefs and to search for certain general, rationally justifiable moral principles.’1
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