| Description |
xvi, 620 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Part I. A Context For Environmental Ethics -- 1. Philosophical Ethics and Environmental Public Policy -- Philosophical Ethics / Morality and Social Ethics / Greek Ethics / Natural Law Ethics / Modern Social Ethics / Utilitarian Ethics / Deontological Ethics / Environmental Ethics: An Overview -- 2. The Environment in Western Thought -- The Book of Genesis (1:1-3.24) / The Book of Job (38:1- 42.6) / St. Francis of Assisi, The Canticle of Brother Sun / St. Thomas Aquinas, Differences Between Rational and Other Creatures / Rene; Descartes, Animals as Automata / Immanuel Kant, Duties to Animals / Henry David Thoreau, Walking / Lynn White, The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis / Roderick Nash, A Wilderness Condition -- 3. Is There an Environmental Crisis? -- Julian Simon, Natural Resources are Infinite / Gregg Easterbrook, A Moment on the Earth / Joseph Bast, Peter Hill, and Richard Rue, Our World Is Getting Cleaner / Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, and Jorgen Randers, Beyond the Limits -- Part Ii. Basic Concepts Of Environmental Ethics -- 4. Economics and Environmental Policy -- Richard Stroup and Joseph Baden, with David Fractor, Property Rights: The Real Issue / A. Myrick Freeman III, The Ethical Basis of the Economic View of the Environment / Mark Sagoff, Free Market Versus Libertarian Environmentalism / Herman E. Daly, Moving to a Steady-State Economy / Discussion Cases: Mineral King Valley / Whales for Sale / ?Takings? and Property Rights / Valuing Eagles and Solitude -- 5. Aesthetic and Spiritual Values -- John Muir, A View of the High Sierra / Martin H. Krieger, What?s Wrong with Plastic Trees? / Robert Elliot, Faking Nature / Holmes Rolston III, Does Aesthetic Appreciation of Landscapes Need to Be Science-Based? / Rosemary Radford Ruether, The Biblical Vision of the Ecological Crisis / Discussion Cases: Disney and the Civil War / Wild Turkeys / Prairie Restoration / English Gardens and Prairiegrass Lawns -- 6. Extensionism and Anthropocentrism -- Joel Feinberg, The Rights of Animals and Unborn Generations / Peter Singer, All Animals Are Equal / Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights / Christopher D. Stone, Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects / Discussion Cases: Nuclear Wastes and Future People / Animal Research?LD50 / Factory Farms / Mineral King Revisited / Species and Individuals -- 7. Holism: Ecology and Ethics -- Aldo Leopold, The Land Ethic / J. Baird Callicott, The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic / Don E. Marietta, Jr., Environmental Holism and the Individual / Donald Worster, The Ecology of Order and Chaos / Discussion Cases: Yellowstone Fires / Reintroducing Wolves / Olympia Goats / Whitetail Deer and St. John?s University -- Part Iii. Policies And Controversies In Environmental Ethics -- 8. Pollution -- Ann Misch, Assessing Environmental Health Risks / William Baxter, The Case for Optimal Pollution / Paul Steidlmeier, The Morality of Pollution Permits / Discussion Cases: Global Warming and Greenhouse Gases / Superfund Payments / Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co. / Reserve Mining Company -- 9. Ethics and Animals -- William O. Stephens, Five Arguments for Vegetarianism / Carl Cohen, The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research / Brian Luke, A Critical Analysis of Hunters? Ethics / Mark Sagoff, Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce / Discussion Cases: Primate Research and Animal Liberation / The Ethics of Fishing / Breeding Endangered Species / Selective Breeding -- 10. Ethics and Land -- Gifford Pinchot, The Training of a Forester / Randel O?Toole, Reforming the Forest Service / Eugene C. Hargrove, Anglo-American Land Use Attitudes / Donald Worster, Good Farming and the Public Good / Wes Jackson, Nature as the Measure for a Sustainable Agriculture / Discussion Cases: Who Owns the Moon? / Wise-Use? / Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council / Pacific Lumber Company -- 11. Wilderness Preservation -- Michael P. Nelson, Rethinking Wilderness: The Need for a New Idea of Wilderness / William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness: or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature / Holmes Rolston III, The Wilderness Idea Reaffirmed / Discussion Cases: Dams in Wild Areas: Hetch Hetchy and Glen Canyon / Boundary Waters Canoe Area / Cars in Yosemite -- 12. Growth and Development -- Garrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics / Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich, Fables About Population and Food / Maria Mies, The Myth of Catching-up Development / Herman E. Daly, Sustainable Growth: An Impossibility Theorem / Lester W. Milbrath, Strategies for a Sustainable Food Supply / Discussion Cases: Poverty and Subsistence Farming / Licensing Parents / Overpopulation or Overconsumption? / Maximum Wage -- 13. Environmental Justice -- Robert D. Bullard, Justice and Environmental Decision Making / Peter S. Wenz, Just Garbage / Winona LaDuke, Indigenous Environmental Perspectives: A North American Primer / Discussion Cases: Locating Nuclear Plants / Voluntary Consent and Toxic Waste / Structural Injustice -- 14. International Relations and the Environment -- The United Nations, The Rio Declaration on Environmental Development / The United Nations, Agenda 21: Sustainable Development / Farhana Yamin, Biodiversity, Ethics, and International Law / Tom Athanasiou, The Second Coming of ?Free Trade? / Daniel Finn, Trade and the Environment / Discussion Cases: Salmon Fishing / Commercial and Subsistence Whaling / Polluted Borders / Ozone Depletion and Greenhouse Gases -- Part Iv. Philosophy And Theory Of Environmental Ethics -- 15. Deep Ecology, Social Ecology, and Ecofeminism -- Bill Devall and George Sessions, Deep Ecology / Murray Bookchin, Social Ecology Versus Deep Ecology / Karen J. Warren, The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism -- 16. Political Theory and the Environment -- John R. E. Bliese, Traditionalist Conservatism and Environmental Ethics / Mike Mills, Green Democracy: The Search for an Ethical Solution -- 17. Multicultural Perspectives on the Environment -- Padmasiri de Silva, Environmental Ethics: A Buddhist Perspective / J. Donald Hughes and Jim Swan, How Much of the Earth Is Sacred Space? / Ramachandra Guha, Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique -- 18. Environmental Pragmatism -- Anthony Weston, Before Environmental Ethics / Bryan Norton, Diverging Worldviews, Converging Policies -- At the end of each chapter: -- Discussion and Study Questions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Environmental ethics.
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| LC no. |
98005946 |
| ISBN |
1559349867 (paperback) |
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