Environmental Ethics : What Really Matters, What Really Works
Environmental Ethics : What Really Matters, What Really Works
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Author(s): Schmidtz, David
ISBN No.: 9780199793518
Pages: 720
Year: 201111
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 117.23
Status: Out Of Print

*=New to this EditionPrefaceRules, Principles, and Integrity: A General IntroductionPART I. WHAT REALLY MATTERS? ESSAYS ON VALUE IN NATURE1. Where We Are, How We Got Here: The Roots of Crisis1-1. Questions for Reflection and Discussion: GuiltLynn White, Jr.: 1-2. Historical Roots of Our Ecological CrisisJ. Baird Callicott: 1-3. Environmental Philosophy Is Environmental Activism: The Most Radical and Effective KindShepard Krech: * 1-4.


Pleistocene ExtinctionsHoward F. Lyman with Glen Merzer: 1-5. Mad Cowboy: The Cattle Rancher Who Won''t Eat MeatMichael Pollan: * 1-6. Agricultural Contradictions of ObesityBill McKibben: * 1-7. Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future2. Respect for Nature2-1a. Introduction: The Last Man and the Search for Objective Value2-1b. Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Respect for AnimalsPeter Singer: 2-2.


All Animals Are EqualMark Sagoff: 2-3. Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick DivorceHolmes Rolston: 2-4. Values in and Duties to the Natural WorldIan Whyte: 2-5. The Elephant Management Dilemma2-6. Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Respect for LifeChristopher D. Stone: 2-7. Should Trees Have StandingGary Varner: 2-8. iocentric Individualism2-9.


Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Equal RespectPaul W. Taylor: 2-10. The Ethics of Respect for NatureDavid Schmidtz: 2-11. Are All Species Equal?3. Holistic Ethics3-1. Questions for Reflection and Discussion: The LandAldo Leopold: 3-2. The Land EthicArne Naess: * 3-3. The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: A SummaryElliott Sober: 3-4.


Philosophical Problems for EnvironmentalismRamachandra Guha: 3-5. Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique4. Ecofeminism4-1. Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Three Models of OppressionKristen Hessler and Elizabeth Willott: 4-2. Feminism and EcofeminismKaren J. Warren: 4-3. The Power and the Promise of Ecological FeminismGreta Gaard and Lori Gruen: * 4-4. Ecofeminism: Global Justice and Planetary HealthGita Sen: 4-5.


Women, Poverty, and Population: Issues for the Concerned EnvironmentalistV. Rukmini Rao: 4-6. Women Farmers of India''s Deccan Plateau5. Environmental Justice5-1. Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Justice to WinKristin Shrader-Frechette: * 5-2. Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming DemocracyVandana Shiva: * 5-3. Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and ProfitDavid Schmidtz: 5-4. Natural Enemies: An Anatomy of Environmental Conflict6.


How Wild Does Nature Have to Be?6-1. Questions for Reflection and Discussion: An AllegoryJohn Muir: * 6-2. Hetch Hetchy ValleyMartin H. Krieger: 6-3. What''s Wrong with Plastic Trees?Elizabeth Willott: * 6-4. Restoring Nature, Without Mosquitoes?David Pitcher and Jennifer Welchman: * 6-5. Can an Environmental Paradise be Regained? The Hetch Hetchy Valley Question7. Finding Our Place in Nature7-1.


Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Dominating NatureVal Plumwood: * 7-2. Being PreyFreya Mathews: 7-3. Letting the World Grow Old: An Ethos of CountermodernityMichelle Nijhuis: * 7-4. Bonfire of the Superweeds7-5a. Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Learning to BelongRonald Sandler: * 7-5. Environmental Virtue EthicsThomas E. Hill Jr.: 7-6.


Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments7-7. Questions for Reflection and Discussion: The Simple Life"Mark Sagoff: 7-8. Do We Consume Too Much?Joshua Colt Gambrel and Philip Cafaro: * 7-9. The Virtue of SimplicityPaul Schwennesen: * 7-10. On the Ethics of RanchingPART II. WHAT REALLY WORKS? ESSAYS ON HUMAN ECOLOGY8. Weighing Our Options8-1. Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Optimal PollutionSteven Kelman: 8-2.


Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical CritiqueAndrew Brennan: 8-3. Moral Pluralism and the EnvironmentMartha Nussbaum: * 8-4. The Costs of Tragedy: Some Moral Limits of Cost-Benefit AnalysisDavid Schmidtz: 8-5. A Place for Cost-Benefit Analysis9. Sustainability9-1. Questions for Reflection and Discussion: The Logic of the CommonsGarrett Hardin: 9-2. The Tragedy of the CommonsDavid Schmidtz: 9-3. The Institution of PropertyCarol M.


Rose: * 9-4. Liberty, Property, EnvironmentalismDan C. Shahar: * 9-5. Free-Market Environmentalism pace Environmentalism?10. What It Takes to Preserve Wilderness10-1. Questions for Reflection and Discussion: South AfricaDavid Schmidtz: 10-2. When Preservationism Doesn''t PreserveDavid Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott: * 10-3. Reinventing the Commons: An African Case StudyLynn Scarlett: * 10-4.


Choices, Consequences, and Cooperative Conservation11. Overpopulation and What to Do About It11-1. Questions for Reflection and Discussion: The Population BombPeter Singer: 11-2. Famine, Affluence, and MoralityGarrett Hardin: 11-3. Living on a LifeboatHolmes Rolston, III: 11-4. Feeding People Versus Saving NatureHenry Shue: 11-5. Global Environment and International InequalityElizabeth Willott: 11-6. Recent Population Trends12.


Climate Change and What to Do About It12-1. Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Handing Down a Warmer WorldDale Jamieson: * 12-2. Ethics, Public Policy, and Global WarmingStephen Gardiner: * 12-3. A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of CorruptionAndrew Light: * 12-4. Climate Ethics for Climate ActionJohn Christy: * 12-5. Testimony, U.S. House Ways and Means Committee13.


Cities and What to Do About Them13-1. Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Taking Scarcity SeriouslyJessica Woolliams: 13-2. Designing Cities and Buildings as if They Were Ethical ChoicesLynn Scarlett: 13-3. Making Waste Management PayRobert Glennon: 13-4. Unquenchable: America''s Water Crisis and What to Do About ItGarland Cox: * 13-5. EnergyTom Fournier: * 13-6. Air Pollution Abatement Strategies14. Technology and What to Do About It14-1.


Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Innovation and Risk ManagementGary Comstock: * 14-2. Ethics and Genetically Modified FoodsPaul Thompson and William Hannah: * 14-3. Novel and Normal Risk: Where Does Nanotechnology Fit In?Joshua Colt Gambrel: * 14-4. Virtue Theory and Genetically Modified Crops15. Environmentalism in Practice15-1. Questions for Reflection and Discussion: The Ethics of ConfrontationBryan G. Norton: 15-2. The Environmentalists'' Dilemma: Dollars and Sand DollarsBryan G.


Norton: 15-3. Fragile FreedomsPaul Watson: 15-4. Tora! Tora! Tora!Kate Rawles: 15-5. The Missing Shade of GreenAndrew Light: 15-6. Taking Environmental Ethics Public.


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