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xviii, 593 pages ; 26 cm. |
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Oxford handbooks |
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Oxford handbooks.
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Introducing Contemporary Environmental Ethics / Allen Thompson and Stephen M. Gardiner -- A History of Environmental Ethics / Jason Kawall -- Environmental Science : Empirical Claims in Environmental Ethics / Wendy S. Parker -- Markets, Ethics and Environment / John O'Neill -- Law, Governance, and the Ecological Ethos / Daniel Butt -- The Anthropocene! : Beyond the Natural? / Holmes Rolston III -- Anthropocentrism : Humanity as Peril and Promise / Allen Thompson -- Conscious Animals and the Value of Experience / Lori Gruen -- Living Individuals : Biocentrism in Environmental Ethics / Clare Palmer -- How Ecological Collectives Are Morally Considerable / J. Baird Callicott -- Valuing Wild Nature / Philip Cafaro -- Truth and Goodness : Metaethics in Environmental Ethics / Katie McShane -- Practical Reasons and Environmental Commitment / Alan Holland -- Environmental Hermeneutics and the Meaning of Nature / Martin Drenthen -- Phenomenology and Environmental Ethics / Ted Toadvine -- Aesthetic Value, Nature, and Environment / Emily Brady -- Consequentialism in Environmental Ethics / Avram Hiller -- Rights, Rules, and Respect for Nature / Benjamin Hale -- Environmental Virtue Ethics : Value, Normativity, and Right Action / Ronald Sandler -- Ethics of Caring in Environmental Ethics : Indigenous and Feminist Perspectives / Kyle Powys Whyte and Chris Cuomo -- The Sacred, Reverence for Life, and Environmental Ethics in America / Bron Taylor -- Individual and Contributory Responsibility for Environmental Harm / Kenneth Shockley -- Justice on One Planet / Derek Bell -- Sexual Politics in Environmental Ethics : Impacts, Causes, Alternatives / Chris Cuomo -- Human Rights and the Environment / Steve Vanderheiden -- Ecological Space : The Concept and its Ethical Significance / Tim Hayward -- Risk and Precaution in Decision Making about Nature / Jonathan Aldred -- Citizenship and (Un)Sustainability : A Green Republican Perspective / John Barry -- Future Generations in Environmental Ethics / John Nolt -- Sustainability as the Multigenerational Public Interest / Bryan G. Norton -- The Ethics of Environmental Pollution / Kevin C. Elliott -- Population and Environment : the Impossible, the Impermissible, and the Imperative / Elizabeth Cripps -- Ethical Energy Choices / Kristin Shrader-Frechette -- Narratives of Food, Agriculture, and the Environment / David M. Kaplan -- Water Ethics : Toward Ecological Cooperation / Angela Kallhoff -- Anthropogenic Mass Extinction : the Science, the Ethics, and the Civics / Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer and Chris Haufe -- Philosophy of Technology and the Environment / Paul B. Thompson -- The Ethics of Ecosystem Management / Marion Hourdequin -- Mitigation : First Imperative of Environmental Ethics / Henry Shue -- Ethics and Climate Adaptation / Clare Heyward -- Climate Diplomacy / Andrew Light -- Geoengineering : Ethical Questions for Deliberate Climate Manipulators / Stephen M. Gardiner -- Environmental Conflict / David Schmidtz -- Environmental Ethics, Sustainability, and the Recovery of Pragmatism / Ben A. Minteer -- Sacrifice and the Possibilities for Environmental Action / John M. Meyer -- From Environmental Ethics to Environmental Action / Avner de Shalit. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth. Anthropogenic environmental changes are occurring on global scales at unprecedented rates. Despite a long history of environmental intervention, never before has the collective impact of human behaviors threatened all of the major bio-systems on the planet. Decisions we make today will have significant consequences for the basic conditions of all life into the indefinite future. What should we do? How should we behave? In what ways ought we organize and respond? The future of the world as we know it depends on our actions today. A cutting-edge introduction to environmental ethics in a time of dramatic global environmental change, this collection contains forty-five newly commissioned articles, with contributions from well-established experts and emerging voices in the field. Chapters are arranged in topical sections: social contexts (history, science, economics, law, and the Anthropocene), who or what is of value (humanity, conscious animals, living individuals, and wild nature), the nature of value (truth and goodness, practical reasons, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and aesthetics), how things ought to matter (consequences, duty and obligation, character traits, caring for others, and the sacred), essential concepts (responsibility, justice, gender, rights, ecological space, risk and precaution, citizenship, future generations, and sustainability), key issues (pollution, population, energy, food, water, mass extinction, technology, and ecosystem management), climate change (mitigaton, adaptation, diplomacy, and geoengineering), and social change (conflict, pragmatism, sacrifice, and action). Each chapter explains the role played by central theories, ideas, issues, and concepts in contemporary environmental ethics, and their relevance for the challenges of the future"--The publisher. |
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Environmental ethics.
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Environmental protection -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Environmental ethics. (OCoLC)fst00912979
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Environmental protection -- Moral and ethical aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00913377
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Moral and ethical aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01034573
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Gardiner, Stephen Mark, editor.
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Thompson, Allen, 1969-
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Handbook of environmental ethics |
| ISBN |
9780199941339 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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0199941335 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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