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• ISBN: 1559349867
• ISBN: 9781559349864
• Physical Description: xvi, 620 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Publisher: Mountain View, Calif. : Mayfield Pub., ©1999.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PART I.A CONTEXT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS -- 1. Philosophical Ethics and Environmental Public Policy -- Philosophical Ethics -- Morality and Social Ethics -- Greek Ethics -- Natural Law Ethics -- Modern Social Ethics -- Utilitarian Ethics -- Deontological Ethics -- Environmental Ethics: An Overview -- 2. The Environment in Western Thought -- The Book of Genesis (1:1-3.24) -- The Book of Job (38:1- 42.6) -- The Canticle of Brother Sun / St. Francis of Assisi -- Differences Between Rational and Other Creatures / St. Thomas Aquinas -- Animals as Automata / Rene Descartes -- Duties to Animals / Immanuel Kant -- Walking / Henry David Thoreau -- The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis / Lynn White -- A Wilderness Condition / Roderick Nash -- 3. Is There an Environmental Crisis? -- Natural Resources are Infinite / Julian Simon -- A Moment on the Earth / Gregg Easterbrook -- Our World Is Getting Cleaner / Joseph Bast, Peter Hill, and Richard Rue -- Beyond the Limits / Donella Meadows Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers.

PART II. BASIC CONCEPTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS -- 4. Economics and Environmental Policy -- Property Rights: The Real Issue / Richard Stroup and Joseph Baden with David Fractor -- The Ethical Basis of the Economic View of the Environment -- A. Myrick Freeman III / Free Market Versus Libertarian Environmentalism / Mark Sagoff -- Moving to a Steady-State Economy / Herman E. Daly -- Discussion Cases: Mineral King Valley / Whales for Sale / Takings and Property Rights / Valuing Eagles and Solitude -- 5. Aesthetic and Spiritual Values -- A View of the High Sierra / John Muir -- What's Wrong with Plastic Trees? / Martin H. Krieger -- Faking Nature / Robert Elliot -- Does Aesthetic Appreciation of Landscapes Need to Be Science-Based? / Holmes Rolston III -- The Biblical Vision of the Ecological Crisis / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Discussion Cases: Disney and the Civil War / Wild Turkeys / Prairie Restoration / English Gardens and Prairiegrass Lawns -- 6. Extensionism and Anthropocentrism -- The Rights of Animals and Unborn Generations / Joel Feinberg -- All Animals Are Equal / Peter Singer -- The Case for Animal Rights / Tom Regan -- Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects / Christopher D. Stone -- Discussion Cases: Nuclear Wastes and Future People / Animal Research-LD50 / Factory Farms / Mineral King Revisited / Species and Individuals -- 7. Holism: Ecology and Ethics -- The Land Ethic / Aldo Leopold -- The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic / J. Baird Callicott / Environmental Holism and the Individual / Don E. Marietta Jr. -- The Ecology of Order and Chaos / Donald Worster -- Discussion Cases: Yellowstone Fires / Reintroducing Wolves / Olympia Goats / Whitetail Deer and St. John's University.

PART III. POLICIES AND CONTROVERSIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS -- 8. Pollution -- Assessing Environmental Health Risks / Ann Misch -- The Case for Optimal Pollution / William Baxter -- The Morality of Pollution Permits / Paul Steidlmeier -- Discussion Cases: Global Warming and Greenhouse Gases / Superfund Payments / Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co. / Reserve Mining Company -- 9. Ethics and Animals -- Five Arguments for Vegetarianism / William O. Stephens -- The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research / Carl Cohen -- A Critical Analysis of Hunters' Ethics / Brian Luke -- Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage Quick Divorce / Mark Sagoff -- Discussion Cases: Primate Research and Animal Liberation / The Ethics of Fishing / Breeding Endangered Species / Selective Breeding -- 10. Ethics and Land -- The Training of a Forester / Gifford Pinchot -- Reforming the Forest Service / Randel O'Toole -- Anglo-American Land Use Attitudes / Eugene C. Hargrove -- Good Farming and the Public Good / Donald Worster -- Nature as the Measure for a Sustainable Agriculture / Wes Jackson -- Discussion Cases: Who Owns the Moon? / Wise-Use? / Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council / Pacific Lumber Company -- 11. Wilderness Preservation -- Rethinking Wilderness: The Need for a New Idea of Wilderness / Michael P. Nelson -- The Trouble with Wilderness: or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature / William Cronon -- The Wilderness Idea Reaffirmed / Holmes Rolston III / Discussion Cases: Dams in Wild Areas: Hetch Hetchy and Glen Canyon / Boundary Waters Canoe Area / Cars in Yosemite -- 12. Growth and Development -- Lifeboat Ethics / Garrett Hardin -- Fables About Population and Food / Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich -- The Myth of Catching-up Development / Maria Mies -- Sustainable Growth: An Impossibility Theorem / Herman E. Daly -- Strategies for a Sustainable Food Supply / Lester W. Milbrath -- Discussion Cases: Poverty and Subsistence Farming / Licensing Parents / Overpopulation or Overconsumption? / Maximum Wage -- 13. Environmental Justice -- Justice and Environmental Decision Making / Robert D. Bullard -- Just Garbage / Peter S. Wenz -- Indigenous Environmental Perspectives: A North American Primer / Winona LaDuke -- Discussion Cases: Locating Nuclear Plants / Voluntary Consent and Toxic Waste / Structural Injustice -- 14. International Relations and the Environment -- The Rio Declaration on Environmental Development / The United Nations -- Agenda 21: Sustainable Development / The United Nations -- Biodiversity Ethics and International Law / Farhana Yamin -- The Second Coming of Free Trade / Tom Athanasiou -- Trade and the Environment / Daniel Finn -- Discussion Cases: Salmon Fishing / Commercial and Subsistence Whaling / Polluted Borders / Ozone Depletion and Greenhouse Gases.

PART IV. PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS -- 15. Deep Ecology Social Ecology and Ecofeminism -- Deep Ecology / Bill Devall and George Sessions -- Social Ecology Versus Deep Ecology / Murray Bookchin -- The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism / Karen J. Warren -- 16. Political Theory and the Environment -- Traditionalist Conservatism and Environmental Ethics / John R.E. Bliese -- Green Democracy: The Search for an Ethical Solution / Mike Mills -- 17. Multicultural Perspectives on the Environment -- Environmental Ethics: A Buddhist Perspective / Padmasiri de Silva -- How Much of the Earth Is Sacred Space? / J. Donald Hughes and Jim Swan -- Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique / Ramachandra Guha -- 18. Environmental Pragmatism -- Before Environmental Ethics / Anthony Weston -- Diverging Worldviews Converging Policies / Bryan Norton.

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