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Environmental ethics

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  • Global Ethics and Environmentby Nicholas Low

    Routledge 1999; US$ 71.95

    This collection stimulates debate and provides an excellent resource for wide-ranging case study material and solid academic context. more...

  • Chinnagounder's Challengeby Deane W. Curtin

    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 'principled engagement in community,' wilderness advocacy, and the need for an attachment to place." -- Choice "[T]his is a very important book, raising serious questions for development theorists and environmentalists alike." -- Boston Book Review When Indian centenarian Chinnagounder asked Deane Curtin about his... more...

  • Faking Natureby Robert Elliot

    Routledge 1997; US$ 39.95

    Faking Nature is a timely and provocative analysis of the simultaneous destruction and restoration of the natural world and the ethics related to those processes, in an era of accelerated environmental damage and repair. more...

  • Environmental Valuesby John O'Neill; Alan Holland; Andrew Light

    Routledge 2005; US$ 56.95

    A rigorous assessment of the ways in which the natural and cultural environments we inhabit are valued, offering a distinctive perspective on environmental ethics and policy making that is sensitive to real life conflicts and dilemmas. more...

  • A Theory of Ecological Justiceby Brian Baxter

    Routledge 2004; US$ 160.00

    This 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...

  • Governing for the Environmentby Brendan Gleeson; Nicholas Low; Jim Whitman

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 140.00

    Governing for the Environment explores one of the dimensions of the value-knowledge system needed in any movement towards humane governance for the planet: the ecological sustainability and integrity of the Earth's environment. The book begins from the premise that whilst environmental knowledge and values have developed rapidly, their development must not overwhelm consideration of other core 'humane' values: peace, social justice, and human rights. The book's contributors explore a variety of ethical issues that must inform future global regulation of the Earth's environment. more...

  • Earth's Insightsby J. Baird Callicott

    University of California Press 1994; US$ 26.95

    The environmental crisis is global in scope, yet contemporary environmental ethics is centered predominantly in Western philosophy and religion. Earth's Insights widens the scope of environmental ethics to include the ecological teachings embedded in non-Western worldviews. J. Baird Callicott ranges broadly, exploring the sacred texts of Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Zen Buddhism, as well as the oral traditions of Polynesia, North and South America, and Australia. He also documents the attempts of various peoples to put their environmental ethics into practice. Finally, he wrestles with a question of vital importance to all people sharing the fate of this small planet: How can the world's many and diverse environmental... more...

  • In Nature's Interests?by Gary E. Varner

    Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 45.00

    This work responds to the assumption that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric views are each antithetical to sound environmental policy. Allowing that all living things have interests which should be protected, the author contends that some interests take priority over others. more...

  • Nature, Value, Dutyby Christopher J. Preston; Wayne Ouderkirk

    Springer 2007; US$ 189.00

    Gifford 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...

  • Ethics and the Environmentby Dale Jamieson

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 25.00

    Jamieson asks what is the environment, and how does it figure in an ethical life? more...