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1 online resource |
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SpringerBriefs in ethics, 2211-8101 |
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SpringerBriefs in ethics.
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| Contents |
1. Environmental Background -- Keynote for the Field: Aldo Leopold -- Case 1: Hetch Hetchy Valley -- Case 2: Prospectors and Neighbors -- Case 3: Rachel Carson, DDT and the New Threats to Our Health -- Reflection: How Had We Come to This Point? -- Case 4: Malthus Revisited: Kenneth Boulding's Spaceship, Garrett -- Hardin's Commons and Paul Ehrlich's Population Bomb -- Case 5: Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution -- Case 6: Earth Day and Environmental Legislation -- Case 7: Barry Commoner's Laws of Ecology -- Case 8: Love Canal and Toxic Wastes -- Case 9: Bhopal and Industrial Safety -- Reflections on the Democratic Process -- Case 10: The Wreck of the Exxon Valdez -- The Sacrifices for Oil and the New Focus on the Ecosystem -- Further Reflection: The Reentry of the Ecocentric -- 2. Business Hears the Call -- Case 11: The Business Case for Environmental Protection: 3M & NYC -- Case 12: Green Marketing and the American Consumer -- Sustainability and the Triple Bottom Line -- Case 13: The New Industrial Revolution and the Automobile -- Case 14: The McMansion -- Case 15: Biomimicry and Beyond -- Reflection: The Philosophers -- Biodiversity -- Case 16: Biophilia? Circling Toward Home -- Reflection: Deep Ecology and the Justification of Monkey Wrenching -- Coming to Value Nature -- Man as a Plain Citizen of the World: Return to Aldo Leopold -- Ethics Focused on the Natural Environment -- Eight Ways of Seeing -- The Case for Environmentalism |
| Summary |
This book tracks the growth of environmental awareness and conservation in the United States through the major trends of the 20th century, and establishes a philosophical ground for protection of the environment. It records a major cultural shift in the thinking of this nation, and provides guidelines for its continuation |
| Analysis |
Ethics |
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Philosophy of nature |
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Environmental law |
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Philosophy |
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Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Environmental ethics -- United States
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Environmental ethics
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Milieubescherming.
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319000503 |
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3319000500 |
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