Water ethics : foundational readings for students and professionals

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Water ethics : foundational readings for students and professionals / Peter G. Brown and Jeremy J. Schmidt.

Brown, Peter G. (Author). Schmidt, Jeremy J. (Added Author).

Summary:

"The world's growing global water crisis has ignited efforts to reconnect policy to human values. According to Water Ethics, all approaches to managing water, no matter how grounded in empirical data, involve moral judgments and cultural assumptions." "Each of the book's six sections discusses a different approach to thinking about the relationship between water and humanity, from utilitarianism to ecofeminism to religious beliefs. Contributors range from Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, to Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom and water policy expert Sandra Postel. Water Ethics will help readers understand how various moral perspectives have guided and will continue to guide water policy around the globe."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9781597265645
ISBN: 1597265640
ISBN: 9781597265652
ISBN: 1597265659
Physical Description: x, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Part One: Introduction -- Water ethics and water management / Jeremy J. Schmidt -- Part Two: Dominion and the human claim to water -- Editors' introduction -- Byzantine heritage / His all holiness ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew -- Water ethics perspectives in the Arab region / Faraj Al-Awar, Mohammad J. Abdulrazzak, and Radwan Al-Weshah -- Which rights are right? Water rights, culture, and underlying values / Rajendra Pradhan and Ruth Meinzen-Dick -- Women, water, energy: An ecofeminist approach / Greta Gaard -- Part Three: Utilitarianism -- Editors' introduction -- Water as a resource / William J. McGee -- Priming the invisible pump / Terry L. Anderson and Donald R. Leal -- Surface water and groundwater regulation and use: An ethical perspective / Steven E. Kraft -- Understanding transfers: Community rights and the privitization of water / Joseph L. Sax -- A basis for environmental ethics / Augustin Berque -- Part Four: Water as a community resource -- Editors' introduction -- Water rights' in the commons / Elinor Ostrom, Paul C. Stern, and THomas Dietz -- Encounters with the moral economy of water: General principles for successfully managing the commons / Paul Trawick -- The legal status of water in Quebec / Madeleine Cantin Cumyn -- The rebirth of environmentalism as pragmatic, adaptive management / Bryan G. Norton -- Part Five: Water: Life's common wealth -- Editors' introduction -- Are there any natural resources? / Peter G. Brown -- The missing piece: A water ethic / Sandra Postel -- Fish first! The changing ethics of ecosystem management / Carolyn Merchant -- Part six: Ethics in complex systems / Editors' introduction -- Ecohydrosolidarity: A new ethics for stewardship of value-adding rainfall / Malin Falkenmark and Carl Folke -- An ethic of compassionate retreat / Peter G. Brown and Jeremy J. Schmidt.