The environmental ethics and policy book : philosophy, ecology, economics /
Environmental ethics & policy book
Donald VanDeVeer, Christine Pierce.
- 2nd edition
- Belmont, CA : Wadsworth Pub, c1998.
- xxvi, 673 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO ETHICAL THEORY. 1. Moral Argument and Ethical Theory. 2. Influential Ideas and Theories.
PART II: RELIGOUS AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES. 3. Preview. 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. 8. Preview. 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. 16. Preview. 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. 29. Preview. 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. 34. Preview. 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. 37. Preview. 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. 43. Preview. 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''''''''. 50. Preview. 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. 58. Preview. 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. 65. Preview. 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. 70. Preview. 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. 76. Preview. 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. 83. Preview. 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. 89. Preview. 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).
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