| Description |
xxi, 566 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Why Environmental Ethics?, Elizabeth Willott and David Schmidtz -- I. What Really Matters? Essays On Value In Nature -- 1. The Dawn of Reverence -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion: A Fierce Green Fire -- A Moment on the Earth, Gregg Easterbrook -- Thinking Like a Mountain, Aldo Leopold -- The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis, Lynn White, Jr. -- 2. Animal Liberation and the Land Ethic -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Practical Ethics -- All Animals Are Equal, Peter Singer -- The Land Ethic, Aldo Leopold -- Values in and Duties to the Natural World, Holmes Rolston III -- Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce, Mark Sagoff -- 3. Extending the Realm of Rights -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Natural Rights -- Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects, Christopher D. Stone -- The Rights of Animals, Joel Feinberg -- The Good of Trees, Robin Attfield -- Duties Concerning Islands, Mary Midgley -- 4. Species Equality and Respect for Nature -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Where Do We Draw the Line? -- The Ethics of Respect for Nature, Paul W. Taylor -- Are All Species Equal?, David Schmidtz -- 5. Environmental Holism -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Keeping Our Hands Clean -- How to Worry About Endangered Species, Tom Regan -- Biocentric Individualism, Gary Varner -- Deep Ecology, Bill Devall and George Sessions -- Social Ecology Versus Deep Ecology, Murray Bookchin -- Why Do Species Matter?, Lilly-Marlene Russow -- Philosophical Problems for Environmentalism, Elliott Sober -- 6. How Wild Does Nature Have to Be? -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion: An Allegory -- What's Wrong with Plastic Trees?, Martin H. Krieger -- The Call of the Wild, Eric Katz -- Ecological Restoration and the Culture of Nature, Andrew Light -- 7. Rethinking the Good Life -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Voluntary Simplicity -- Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments, Thomas E. Hill, Jr. -- Redefining the Good Life in a Sustainable Society, Lester W. Milbrath -- Do We Consume Too Much?, Mark Sagoff -- Letting the World Grow Old: An Ethos of Countermodernity, Freya Mathews -- 8. Ecofeminism in Theory and Practice -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Dichotomies -- Feminism and Ecofeminism, Kristen Hessler and Elizabeth Willott -- The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism, Karen J. Warren -- Women, Poverty, and Population: Issues for the Concerned Environmentalist, Gita Sen -- Women Farmers of India's Deccan Plateau: Ecofeminists Challenge World Elites, V. Rukmini Rao -- Ii. What Really Works? Essays On Human Ecology -- 9. Human Population -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion: The Population Bomb -- Future Generations, Joel Feinberg -- Population, Development, and the Environment, Clark Wolf -- Recent Population Trends, Elizabeth Willott -- 10. What It Takes To Preserve Wilderness -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion: South Africa -- Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique, Ramachandra Guha -- Headaches and Heartaches: The Elephant Management Dilemma, Ian J. Whyte -- At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife, Raymond Bonner -- When Preservationism Doesn't Preserve, David Schmidtz -- 11. Sustainable Use and Institutional Structure -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion: The Logic of the Commons -- The Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin -- Approximate Optimality of Aboriginal Property Rights, Martin J. Bailey -- Environmental Lessons, Carol Rose -- The Institution of Property, David Schmidtz -- 12. Poverty as an Environmental Problem -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Zambia -- Living on a Lifeboat, Garrett Hardin -- Famine, Affluence, and Morality, Peter Singer -- Global Environment and International Inequality, Henry Shue -- Feeding People Versus Saving Nature, Holmes Rolston III -- Natural Enemies: An Anatomy of Environmental Conflict, David Schmidtz -- 13. Vanishing Resources -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Cities -- Designing Cities as if They Were Ethical Choices, Jessica Woolliams -- Why the Good News Shouldn't Scare You, Gregg Easterbrook -- The Doomslayer, Ed Regis -- The Good News, in Perspective, Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich -- 14. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Environmental Policy -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Optimal Pollution -- Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique, Steven Kelman -- Cost-Benefit Analysis Defended, Herman B. Leonard and Richard J. Zeckhauser -- Moral Pluralism and the Environment, Andrew Brennan -- A Place for Cost-Benefit Analysis, David Schmidtz -- 15. Environmentalism in Practice -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion: The Ethics of Confrontation -- The Environmentalists' Dilemma: Dollars and Sand Dollars, Bryan G. Norton -- Fragile Freedoms, Bryan G. Norton -- Therapeutic Nihilism and Environmental Management, Eugene C. Hargrove -- Mad Cowboy: The Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat, Howard F. Lyman with Glen Merzer -- Tora! Tora! Tora!, Paul Watson -- The Missing Shade of Green, Kate Rawles -- Environmental Philosophy Is Environmental Activism: The Most Radical and Effective Kind, J. Baird Callicott -- Taking Environmental Ethics Public, Andrew Light |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Environmental ethics.
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| Author |
Schmidtz, David.
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Willott, Elizabeth, 1955-
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| LC no. |
2001021210 |
| ISBN |
0195139097 paperback alkaline paper |
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