The environmental ethics and policy book : philosophy, ecology, economics / Donald VanDeVeer, Christine Pierce.

PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO ETHICAL THEORY.
1. Moral Argument and Ethical Theory.
2. Influential Ideas and Theories.

PART II: RELIGOUS AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES.
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4. Lynn White, Jr.: "The Historic Roots of Our Ecological Crisis."
5. Andrew Linzey: "For God So Loved the World."
6. Nina Rosenstand: "Everyone Needs a Stone."
7. Stephen Jay Gould: "Can We Complete Darwin''''s Revolution?"

PART III: THE OTHER ANIMALS.
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9. Frans de Waal: "Good Natured - The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals."
10. Peter Singer: "Animal Liberation."
11. Tom Regan: "The Case for Animal Rights."
12. Donald Van deVeer: "Interspecific Justice."
13. Gary Varner: "The Prospect for Consensus and Convergence in the Animal Rights Debate."
14. Edward O. Wilson: "The Little Things That Run the World."
15. Sidelight: Parachuting Cats and Interconnectedness.

PART IV: CONSTRUCTING AN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHIC. A: THE BROADER, BIOTIC COMMUNITY.
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17. Kenneth Goodpaster: "On Being Morally Considerable."
18. Christopher Stone: "Should Trees Have Standing? - Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects."
19. Paul W. Taylor: "The Ethics of Respect for Nature."
20. Sidelight: Obstacles to Reasoned Discussion.
21. Aldo Leopold: "The Land Ethic."
22. J. Baird Callicott: "The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic."
23. Bryan G. Norton: "Integration or Reduction: Two Approaches to Environmental Values." B:

DEEP ECOLOGY AND SOCIAL ECOLOGY. 24. Preview.
25. Bill Devall and George Sessions: "Deep Ecology."
26. Arne Naess: "Self-Realization: An Ecological Approach to Being in the World."
27. Murray Bookchin: "Will Ecology Become ''''The Dismal Science''''?''''''''
28. Sidelight: Do What''''s Natural, You Say?
C: ECOFEMINISM.
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30. Val Plumwood: "Nature, Self, and Gender: Feminism, Environmental Philosophy, and the Critique of Rationalism."
31. Karen J. Warren: "The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism."
32. Vandana Shiva: "Development, Ecology, and Women."
33. Victoria Davion: "How Feminist Is Ecofeminism?"

34. PART V: ECONOMICS, ETHICS, AND ECOLOGY. A: LETTING THE MARKET DECIDE.
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35. A. Myrick Freeman III: "The Ethical Basis of the Economic View of the Environment."
36. Mark Sagoff: "At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic."
B: COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS.
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38. Stephen Kelman: "Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique."
39. Herman B. Leonard and Richard J. Zeckhauser: "Cost-Benefit Analysis Defended."
40. Sidelight: Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Tool for All Seasons?
41. Robert Repetto: "Earth in the Balance Sheet."
42. Donald A. Brown: "Ethics, Science, and Environmental Regulation."
C: FROM THE COMMONS TO PROPERTY.
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44. Garrett Hardin: "The Tragedy of the Commons."
45. George Monbiot: "The Tragedy of Enclosure."
46. John Locke: "The Creation of Property."
47. Kristin Shrader-Frechette: "Property Rights in Natural Resources."
48. Mark Sagoff: "Takings, Just Compensation, and the Environment."
49. The Rio Declaration.

D: HUMAN POPULATION AND PRESSURE ON ''''''''RESOURCES''''''''.
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51. Thomas Robert Malthus: "An Essay on the Principle of Population."
52. Sidelight: If Earth Could Speak.
53. Garrett Hardin: "Lifeboat Ethics."
54. Julian Simon: "Can the Supply of Resources Really Be Infinite? Yes!"
55. Partha S. Dasgupta: "Population, Poverty, and the Local Environment."
56. Holmes Rolston III: "Feeding People versus Saving Nature."
57. Ronnie Zoe Hawkins: "Reproductive Choices: The Ecological Dimension." E: FUTURE GENERATIONS AND SUSTAINABILITY QUESTIONS.
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59. Bryan G. Norton: "Environmental Problems and Future Generations."
60. Sidelight: Richard (Routley) Sylvan and Val (Routley) Plumwood: "The Nuclear Train to the Future."
61. Robert M. Solow: "Sustainability: An Economist''''s Perspective."
62. Robert E. Goodin: "Sustainability."
63. Wilfred Beckerman: "Sustainable Development: Is It a Useful Concept?"
64. Herman E. Daly: "On Wilfred Beckerman''''s Critique of Sustainable Development." PART VI: ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND POLICIES. A: PRESERVING BIODIVERSITY.
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66. E.O. Wilson: "The Diversity of Life."
67. Stephen Jay Gould: "What Is a Species?"
68. Lilly-Marlene Russow: "Why Do Species Matter?"
69. Holmes Rolston III: "Why Species Matter." B: WILDERNESS AND FORESTS.
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71. Ramachandra Guha: "Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique."
72. Norman Myers: "Tropical Forests and Their Species: Going, Going . . . ?"
73. Perri Knize: "The Mismanagement of the National Forests."
74. Charles E. Little: "On Top of Mount Mitchell."
75. Bryan G. Norton: "Forest Service Policy." C: CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY.
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77. Karl Grossman: "Environmental Racism."
78. Herman Daly: "Consumption and the Environment."
79. Luis N. Camacho: "Consumption as a Theme in the North-South Dialogue."
80. Lisa H. Newton: "The Chainsaws of Greed: The Case of the Pacific Lumber."
81. Christopher Stone: "Why Shouldn''''t Corporations Be Socially Responsible?"
82. Mark Sagoff: "I Am No Greenpeacer, But . . . or Environmentalism, Risk Communication, and the Lower Middle Class." D: SLIDING TO GLOBAL CATASTROPHE.
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84. Rachel Carson: "Silent Spring."
85. Robert Goodland: "The Case That the World Has Reached Limits."
86. Patrick J. Michaels: "The Climate-Change Debacle: the Perils of Politicizing Science."
87. Christopher Flavin: "A Response."
88. Sidelight: David T. Suzuki: "Let''''s Transform the Military."

PART VII: VARIETIES OF ACTIVISM.
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90. David Foreman: "Strategic Monkeywrenching."
91. Rik Scarce: "The Sea Shepherds: Bringing Justice to the High Seas."
92. Kristin Shrader-Frechette: "An Apologia for Activism: Global Responsibility, Ethical Advocacy, and Environmental Problems."
93. Guy Claxton: "Involuntary Simplicity: Changing Dysfunctional Habits of Consumption."
94. Sidelight: A Resistance Movement of One''''s Own.

PART VIII: LEARNING AND RESEARCH TOOLS.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 662-673).