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Environmental Ethics Divergence and Convergence

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ISBN-10: 0072838450

ISBN-13: 9780072838459

Edition: 3rd 2004

Authors: Susan J. Armstrong, Richard G. Botzler

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List price: $172.67
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 8/28/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Richard G. Botzler is Professor Emeritus at Humboldt State University and coauthor of "Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence" (2003). He taught the two courses that inspired this book: Principles of Wildlife Diseases and Advanced Topics in Wildlife Diseases. Richard N. Brown is Professor of Wildlife at Humboldt State University, where he teaches courses on wildlife diseases.

Introduction
"Unchopping a Tree," W.S. Merwin For Further Reading
The Multi-Discplinary Context of Environmental Ethics
Science
"Conduct, Misconduct, and the Structure of Science,"
"Putting Science in its Place,"
"Facing the Problem of Uncertainty,"
"Feminism and the Study of Behavior,"
"The Little Things that Run the World,"
Discussion Topics
Class Exercises
For Further Reading
Morality
"A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy,"
"Some Basic Points about Arguments,"
"Environmental Ethics: Values in and Duties to the Natural World,"
"Environmental Ethics and the Social Construction of Nature,"
"Environmental Ethics as Environmental Etiquette,"
"Just Garbage: Environmental Injustice,"
Discussion Topics
Class Exercises
For Further Reading
Aesthetics
"Walking,"
"A Near View of the High Sierras,"
"A More-Than-Human World,"
"The Land Aesthetic,"
"The Far Outside,"
Discussion Topics
Class Exercises
For Further Reading
Historical Context
"The Ancient Roots of our Ecological Crisis,"
"Anglo-American Land Use Attitudes,"
"Whither Conservation Ethics?"
"Wasty Ways: Stories of American Settlement,"
"Nature in Industrial Society,"
"Rachel Carson''s Environmental Ethics,"
Discussion Topics
Class Exercises
For Further Reading
Fundamental World Views
Religious and Cultural Perspectives
"The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis,"
"Created in the Image of God: Humanity and Divinity in an Age of Environmentalism,"
"Environmental Ethics: Some Challenges for Christians,"
"Islamic Environmental Ethics, Law and Society,"
"Voices from White Earth,"
"The Sun my Heart,"
"Ideologies of Environmentalism,"
Discussion Topics
Class Exercises
For Further Reading
Anthropocentrism
"Animals are Machines,"
"Duties to Animals: The Failure of Kant''s Moral Theory."
"Anthropocentrism: A Modern Version,"
"The Golden Rule: A Proper Scale for our Environmental Crisis,"
"The Invented Landscape,"
Discussion Topics
Class Exercises
For Further Reading
Individualism
From The Case for Animal Rights
"Equality for Animals?"
"Environmental Values,"
"Animal Liberation is an Environmental Ethic,"
From Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics
"Biocentric Individualism,"
Discussion Topics
Class Exercises
For Further Reading
Ecocentrism
"The Land Ethic,"
"Whither Conservation Ethics?"
"Aldo Leopold''s Concept of Ecosystem Health,"
"The Land Ethic at the Turn of the Millennium,"
"The Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: 1960-2000--A Review,"
Discussion Topics
Class Exercises
For Further Reading
Ecofeminism
"Quilting Ecofeminism,"
"Ecofeminism,"
From States of Grace
From The Legacy of Luna
"Is Ecofeminism Feminist?"
Discussion Topics
Class Exercises
For Further Reading
Environmental Ethics in Society Biotechnology
"Biocentrism and Genetic Engineering,"
"Ecological Risks and Benefits of Transgenic Plants,"
"The Ecological Critique of Agricultural Biotechnology,"
"Rights to Life? On Nature, Property and Biotechnology,"
Property
"The Tragedy of the Commons,"
"Visitors to the Commons: Approaching Thailand''s Environmental Struggles from a Western Starting Point,"
"Taking the Land Rights Movement Seriously,"
Economics
From Free Market Environmentalism
"At the Monument to General Meade, or On the Difference Between Beliefs and Benefits, "
"Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) Accounting: Relating Ecological Integrity to Human Health and Well-Being,"
"Can We Afford to Conserve Biodiversity?"
LAW
From Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects
Policy
"Fragile Freedoms,"
"The Relevance of Environmental Ethical Theories for Policy Making,"
Management
"Environmental Ethical Issues in Water Operations and Land Management,"
Politics
"Ecological Democracy," John Dryzek "Leopold as Advocate,"
Case Studies and Dilemmas
Endangered Species: The Nene
The Klamath River: Farmers, Fishers, Native Americans and Salmon
The Makah Indian Tribe and Whale Hunting
Scientists as Advocates
Are We on a Lifeboat?
Appendix: Class Exercises
Acknowledgments