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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Environmental Science And Theology In Dialogue: The Need for Interdisciplinarity | |
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| Why Dialogue? | |
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| Theology in Dialogue: A Brief Historical Summary | |
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| Theology in Dialogue with Environmental Issues | |
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| Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary | |
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| The Need for Interdisciplinarity in Faith-based Institutions | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Active Learning Exercise | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| The Relationship Between Science And Theology: A Strategic Collaboration | |
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| Theology and Science: Conflict to Collaboration | |
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| A Model for Strategic Interdisciplinarity: The Iterative-Praxiological Method | |
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| The Salmon Crisis � The Case Study | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Active Learning Exercises | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Ecological Foundations For Environmental Science: Principles and Processes | |
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| Ecology and the Scientific Principles of Sustainability | |
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| Ecology: A Historical Retrospective | |
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| The Relationship of Ecology and Environmental Science | |
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| Ecosystems and Toxins | |
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| The Carrying Capacity of Ecosystems | |
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| Habitats and Human Development | |
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| Energy Consumption: Renewable and Nonrenewable Sources | |
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| What Is Environmental Sustainability? | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Active Learning Exercises | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| The Impact of People on Ecological Processes: The Harm We Do | |
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| Climate Change | |
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| The "Ozone Hole" | |
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| Water | |
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| Ecological and Carbon Footprints | |
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| Biodiversity Loss | |
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| Energy | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Active Learning Exercises | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| The Environmental Signs of The Times: Toxins and Children | |
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| What Is Environmental Toxicology? | |
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| How Toxins Are Measured | |
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| An Overview of the Impact of Toxins on Children | |
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| The Details of Chemical Exposure | |
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| Cost-Benefit Analysis and Discounting the Future | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Active Learning Exercises | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Theological Reflections on Ecology And The Environmental Crisis: An Ecotheology of Revelation and Human Existence | |
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| The Biblical Theological Tradition | |
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| Bridging the Biblical World and Science | |
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| The Environmental Crisis and the Meaning of Human Existence | |
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| Ecological Grace and the Praxis of Ethical Response | |
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| Ecological Sin | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Active Learning Exercises | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| The Ecology of God: Theological Reflections on Wisdom, God, and Jesus Christ | |
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| Ecology and the Wisdom of God | |
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| Ecological Models of God: God in Process | |
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| Eschatological and Ethical Implications | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Active Learning Exercises | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Sustainability For a small Planet: Theological and Scientific Reflections | |
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| A Theological Perspective | |
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| Scientific and Historical Considerations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Active Learning Exercises | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |