| Description |
xii, 600 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Part One: Methodologies And Perspectives -- Chapter 1: Science -- Woodward & Goldstein - Conduct, Misconduct, and the Structure of Science -- Leslie Stevenson - Is Scientific Research Value-Neutral? -- E.O. Wilson - The Little Things that Run the World -- Robert Costanza - Toward an Operational Definition of Ecosystem Health -- Jack Ward Thomas - Integrity as Professionalism -- Chapter 2: Morality -- Tom Regan - Ethical Thinking and Theory -- Anthony Weston - Before Environmental Ethics -- Rolston Holmes III - Environmental Ethics -- Aaron Sachs - What Greenspeace and Amnesty International are Learning from Each Other -- Chapter 3: Aesthetics -- Henry David Thoreau - Walking -- John Muir - Near View of the High Sierras -- Annie Dillard - Seeing -- Allen Carlson - Aesthetic Appreciation of the Natural Environment -- J. Baird Callicott - The Land Aesthetic -- Gary Nabhan - The Far Outside -- Stephanie Mills - The Wild and the Tame -- Chapter 4: Historical Context -- J. Donald Hughes - The Ancient Roots of Our Ecological Crisis -- J. Donald Hughes and Jim Swan - How Much of the Earth is Sacred Space -- Neil Evernden - Nature in Industrial Society -- Part Two: Fundamental World Views -- CHAPTER 5: MONOTHEISM, JUDAISM, cHRISTIANITY, ISLAM -- St. Francis of Assisi - The Canticle of Brother Sun -- Lynn White - The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis -- Jeanne Kay - Concepts of Nature in the Hebrew Bible -- Wendell Berry - The Gift of the Good Land -- Matthew Fox - Christian Spirituality -- Mawil Y. Izzi Deen (Samarai) - Islamic Environmental Ethics -- Chapter 6: Additional Religious And Cultural Perspectives -- N. Scott Momady - A First American?s View -- Annie Booth and Harvey L. Jacobs - Ties That Bind: Native American Beliefs as a Foundation for Environmental Consciousness -- Gary Nabhan - Cultural Parallax in Viewing North American Habitats -- J. Baird Callicott - African Biocommunitarianism and Australian Dreamtime -- Lily de Silva - The Buddhist Attitude Toward Nature -- Po-Keung Ip - Taoism and the Foundation of Environmental Ethics -- Ramachandra Guha - Radical Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique -- Chapter 7: Anthropocentrism -- Immanuel Kant - Duties to Animals -- Bryan G. Norton - Environmental Ethics and Weak Anthropocentrism -- R. Dale Guthrie - The Ethical Relationships Between Humans and Other Oranisms -- W.H. Murdy - Anthropocentrism: A Modern Version -- Stephen J. Gould - The Golden Rule: A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis -- Frederick Turner - The Invented Landscape -- Chapter 8: Individualism -- Tom Regan - The Case for Animal Rights -- Peter Singer - Equality for Animals -- Albert Schweitzer - The Ethics of Reverence for Life -- Paul W. Taylor - Respect for Nature -- Tom Birch - Moral Considerability and Universal Consideration -- Gary Varner - Can Animal Rights Activists be Environmentalists? -- Bernard Rollin - The New Social Ethic for Animals -- Chapter 9: Ecocentrism -- Aldo Leopold - The Land Ethic -- John Rodman - Ecological Sensibility -- J. Baird Callicott - The Conceptual Foundations of the Land -- Arne Naess - The Deep Ecological Movement: Some Philosophical -- Dave Foreman - Confessions of an Eco-Warrior -- Don E. Marietta, Jr. Ethical Holism and Individuals -- Chapter 10: Ecofeminism -- Karen Warren - The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism -- Vandana Shiva and Maria Mies - Introduction to Ecofeminism -- Charlene Spretnak - States of Grace -- Carol J. Adams - Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals -- Victoria Davion - Is Ecofeminism Feminist? -- Chapter 11: Environmental Ethics In Society -- Garrett Hardin - Tragedy of the Commons -- Jon Rousch - Freedom and Responsibility -- Anderson and Leal - Free Market Environmentalism -- Mark Sagoff - Free-Market versus Libertarian Environmentalism -- R. Goodland and G. Ledec - Neoclassical Economics and Principles of Sustainable Development -- Matthew Cahn - Environmental Deceptions -- Christopher Stone - Should Trees Have Standing? -- Eric Katz - The Big Lie -- Sara Stein - Ecology in Our Backyards -- Epilogue: Gary Snyder - Prayer for the Great Family -- Appendix - Class Exercises |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Environmental ethics.
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Human ecology -- History.
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| Author |
Armstrong, Susan J. (Susan Jean)
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Botzler, Richard George, 1942-
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| LC no. |
97005654 |
| ISBN |
0070061807 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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0072838450 (softcover) |
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