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Climate change and sustainable development
Springer 2012; US$ 99.00Climate change is a major framing condition for sustainable development of agriculture and food. Global food production is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time it is among the sectors worst affected by climate change.This book brings together a multidisciplinary group of authors exploring the ethical dimensions... more...
Still Life
Wiley 2013; US$ 64.95How adequate are our theories of globalisation for analysing the worlds we share with others? In this provocative new book, Henrietta Moore asks us to step back and re-examine in a fresh way the interconnections normally labeled 'globalisation'. Rather than beginning with abstract processes and flows, Moore starts by analyzing the hopes, desires and... more...
Nature, Value, Duty
Springer 2006; US$ 179.99Gifford Lecturer and Templeton Prize winner Holmes Rolston, III is widely known as the father of environmental ethics. This book presents a collection of contemporary writings on the work of Holmes Rolston, III. It provides an evaluation of many of the topics discussed by Rolston, probing the strengths and weaknesses of his work. more...
Philosophy and the Natural Environment
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 40.00Leading international environmental philosophers further the debate about the environment and the metaphysical, ethical, social and international implications. more...
Planet Earth, The Future
Ebury Publishing 2010; US$ 10.67Planet Earth is the most spectacular look at our planet that has ever been broadcast. It has made millions of viewers aware of the breathtaking beauty and variety of life on our planet, and just as importantly how fragile that life can be. The premise of Planet Earth - The Future is to identify environmental and conservation issues that... more...
Preservation Versus the People?
OUP Oxford 2002; US$ 124.99Why should any society take the decision to devote scarce resources, as a matter of public policy, to preserving natural objects? This is one of the questions considered in the field of environmental ethics, and the thinking that has taken place in this discipline has been dominated by the 'ecocentric-anthropocentric' distinction. Answers focus... more...
Against Ecological Sovereignty
University of Minnesota Press 2011; US$ 75.00Against Ecological Sovereignty is a passionate defense of radical ecology that speaks directly to current debates concerning the nature, and dangers, of sovereign power. Engaging the work of Bataille, Arendt, Levinas, Nancy, and Agamben, among others, Mick Smith reconnects the political critique of sovereign power with ecological considerations, arguing... more...
Chinnagounder's Challenge
Indiana University Press 1999; US$ 11.95"... an important contribution to environmental philosophy.... includes provocative discussions of institutional and systemic violence, indigenous resistance to 'development,' the land ethic, deep ecology, ecofeminism, women's ecological knowledge, Jeffersonian agrarian republicanism, Berry's ideas about ... more...
Environmental Values
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 56.95We live in a world confronted by mounting environmental problems; increasing global deforestation and desertification, loss of species diversity, pollution and global warming. In everyday life people mourn the loss of valued landscapes and urban spaces. Underlying these problems are conflicting priorities and values. Yet dominant approaches to policy-making... more...
A Theory of Ecological Justice
Routledge 2004; US$ 160.00This book argues for ecological justice - that is, for treating species besides Homo sapiens as having a claim in justice to a share of the Earth's resources. more...









