Dan C. Shahar, David Schmidtz

Environmental Ethics, 4e

What Really Matters, What Really Works

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Produktbeschreibung

Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works offers an essential introduction to a subject that will only become more relevant in the coming years. It gives students a way to define our responsibilities to and duties toward the nonhuman world through a variety of lenses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm
• ISBN-13: 9780197766828
• ISBN-10: 019776682X
• Artikelnr.: 69186879

Autorenporträt

David Schm idtz Kendrick Profess or of Philosophy and Joint Professor of Economics, University of Arizona Dan C. Shahar PhD Student in the Department of Philosophy and Fellow at the Arizona Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona

Inhaltsangabe

* Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works, 4th
Edition
* Preface
* Introduction
* 1. The Soul of Environmentalism
* Gifford Pinchot, "The Fight for Conservation"
* John Muir, "The Hetch Hetchy Valley"
* Gifford Pinchot, "The Hetch Hetchy Dam Site: Hearing before the House
Committee on the Public Lands"
* 2. Contested Foundations
* Gregg Easterbrook, "A Moment on Earth"
* Aldo Leopold, "The Land Ethic"
* Arne Naess, "The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement"
* 3. Humane Environmentalism
* Peter Singer, "Famine, Affluence, and Morality"
* Holmes Rolston III, "Feeding People versus Saving Nature"
* 4. Humanity and Ecology
* Garrett Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons"
* David Schmidtz, "The Institution of Property"
* 5. Environmental Conflict
* Ramachandra Guha, "Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness
Preservation: A Third World Critique"
* David Schmidtz, "Natural Enemies"
* Peter Kareiva and Michelle Marvier, "Conservation for the People"
* 6. Our Place in Nature
* Lynn White Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis"
* John Asafu-Adjaye et. al, "An Eco-Modernist Manifesto"
* 7. Expanding the Moral Circle
* Peter Singer, "All Animals are Equal"
* Bonnie Steinbock, "Speciesism and the Idea of Equality"
* 8. Respect for Nature
* Paul W. Taylor, "The Ethics of Respect for Nature"
* David Schmidtz, "Are All Species Equal?"
* 9. Eating Animals
* Dan C. Shahar, "Is It OK to Eat Meat?"
* Mark Bryant Budolfson, "Is It Wrong to Eat Meat from Factory Farms?"
* Cora Diamond, "Eating Meat and Eating People"
* 10. Ecologies versus Animals
* Aldo Leopold, "Thinking Like a Mountain"
* Mark Sagoff, "Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad
Marriage, Quick Divorce"
* Baird Callicott, "Holistic Environmental Ethics and the Problem of
Eco-Fascism"
* 11. Wildness
* Ian John Whyte, "The Elephant Management Dilemma"
* Ned Hettinger and Bill Throop, "Refocusing Ecocentrism:
De-emphasizing Stability and Defending Wildness"
* Val Plumwood, "Being Prey"
* 12. Beyond Intrinsic Value
* Elliott Sober, "Philosophical Problems for Environmentalism"
* Thomas E. Hill Jr., "Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving
Natural Environments"
* 13. Ecofeminism
* Karen J. Warren, "The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism"
* V. Rukmini Rao, "Women Farmers of India's Deccan Plateau:
Ecofeminists Challenge World Elites"
* 14. Environmental Pragmatism
* Bryan G. Norton, "Toward Unity among Environmentalists"
* Holmes Rolston III, "Converging versus Reconstituting Environmental
Ethics"
* 15. Global Justice
* Henry Shue, "Global Environment and International Inequality"
* Mark Sagoff, "Do We Consume Too Much?"
* 16. Environmental Justice
* Christopher H. Foreman Jr., "Environmental Justice and Risk
Assessment"
* Kristin Shrader-Frechette, "Environmental Justice: Creating Equality,
Reclaiming Democracy"
* 17. Cost and Benefits
* Mark Sagoff, "Consumer and Citizen Preferences"
* Steven Kelman, "Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique"
* David Schmidtz, "Cost-Benefit Analysis"
* 18. Urban Ecology
* Sanford Ikeda, "Jane Jacobs"
* Siobhain Lash, "The Green and the Gray of Urban Renewal"
* Adriana Zuniga-Teran, "Urban Ecology"
* Freya Mathews, "Letting the World Grow Old"
* 19. Climate Change
* William Nordhaus, "The Climate Casino"
* Stephen M. Gardiner, "A Perfect Moral Storm"
* 20. What Should Individuals Do?
* Baylor L. Johnson, "Ethical Obligations in a Tragedy of the Commons"
* Ty Raterman, "Bearing the Weight of the World: On the Extent of an
Individual's Environmental Responsibility"
* 21. Taking Action
* Dan C. Shahar, "Treading Lightly on the Climate in a Problem-Ridden
World"
* Kate Rawles, "The Missing Shade of Green"
* Index