Environmental Ethics and Policy Book Philosophy, Ecology and Economics

Name: Environmental Ethics and Policy Book Philosophy, Ecology and Economics
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ISBN: 9780534210304

ISBN-10: 0534210309

ISBN-13: 9780534210304

Edition: 1994

Authors: Donald VanDeVeer, Christine Pierce

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This text is designed for students who wish to explore in depth questions about how on earth we ought to live e.g., how we can behave responsibly toward nonhumans and toward the planet). Although primarily oriented toward questions of ethics broadly understood, and approached philosophically, the volume crosses disciplinary boundaries and attends seriously to economic reasoning and its implications for environmental policy issues. It seeks to extract for critical attention the relevant moral or normative presuppositions which lie behind policy recommendations, whether they are ones made by biologists, ecologists, economists, phiolsophers, engineers, public officials, or anyone concerned…

Book details

List price: $58.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 8/23/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 649
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.442

Preface to the Third Edition	p. xi
Introduction	p. xvii
Prologue: World Scientists' Warning to Humanity	p. xxvii
An Introduction to Ethical Theory	p. 1
Moral Argument and Ethical Theory	p. 1
Distinguishing Moral and Empirical Claims	p. 1
Justification, Explanation, Prediction, and Description	p. 5
Moral Argument: The Interplay of Moral and Empirical Claims	p. 7
Harm and Benefit	p. 11
Evaluating Ethical Theories	p. 14
Influential Ethical Ideas and Theories	p. 16
From Ethical Egoism to Social Darwinism	p. 16
The Divine Command Theory	p. 18
Rights Theories	p. 20
Utilitarianism	p. 24
Utilitarianism and Economic Theory	p. 27
Natural Law Theory	p. 30
The Influence of Kant	p. 33
Environmental Justice	p. 34
The Idea of a Unique Environmental Ethic	p. 37
Western Religious and Cultural Perspectives	p. 43
Preview	p. 43
The Hsitoric Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis	p. 52
For God So Loved the World	p. 58
Judaism and the Environment	p. 62
Stewardship versus Exploitation	p. 66
The World as God's Body	p. 71
Of God and Pelicans	p. 89
Everyone Needs a Stone: Alternative Views of Nature	p. 99
Traditional Ecological Knowledge	p. 109
Why Bad Things Have Happened to Good Creatures	p. 111
The Other Animals	p. 114
Preview	p. 114
Good Natured--The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals	p. 122
Animal Liberation	p. 135
The Case for Animal Rights	p. 143
Interspecific Justice	p. 150
The Prospects for Consensus and Convergence in the Animal Rights Debate	p. 163
The Little Things That Run the World	p. 169
Sidelight: Parachuting Cats and Interconnectedness	p. 172
Constructing an Environmental Ethic	p. 174
The Broader, Biotic Community	p. 174
Preview	p. 174
On Being Morally Considerable	p. 183
Should Trees Have Standing?--Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects	p. 189
The Ethics of Respect for Nature	p. 201
The Land Ethic	p. 215
The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic	p. 224
Marine Environmental Ethics	p. 238
Integration or Reduction: Two Approaches to Environmental Values	p. 240
Deep Ecology and Social Ecology	p. 259
Preview	p. 259
Deep Ecology	p. 263
Self-Realization: An Ecological Approach to Being in the World	p. 268
Will Ecology Become "The Dismal Science?"	p. 273
Sidelight: Do What's Natural, You Say?	p. 277
Ecofeminism	p. 279
Preview	p. 279
The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism	p. 282
Development, Ecology, and Women	p. 296
How Feminist Is Ecofeminism?	p. 303
Economics, Ethics, and Ecology	p. 311
Letting the Market Decide	p. 311
Preview	p. 311
The Ethical Basis of the Economic View of the Environment	p. 318
At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic	p. 327
Cost-Benefit Analysis	p. 336
Preview	p. 336
Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique	p. 341
Cost-Benefit Analysis Defended	p. 347
Sidelight: Cost-Benefit Analysis: Tool for All Seasons?	p. 350
Earth in the Balance Sheet	p. 352
From the Commons to Property	p. 359
Preview	p. 359
The Tragedy of the Commons	p. 364
The Tragedy of Enclosure	p. 373
The Creation of Property	p. 374
Property Rights in Natural Resources	p. 377
Takings, Just Compensation, and the Environment	p. 378
Human Population and Pressure on "Resources"	p. 389
Preview	p. 389
An Essay on the Principle of Population	p. 397
Sidelight: If Earth Could Speak	p. 401
Lifeboat Ethics	p. 402
Can the Supply of Natural Resources Really Be Infinite? Yes!	p. 408
Population, Poverty and the Local Environment	p. 414
Future Generations and Sustainability Questions	p. 419
Preview	p. 419
Future Generations	p. 428
Sidelight: The Nuclear Train to the Future	p. 436
Sustainability: An Economist's Perspective	p. 438
Sustainability	p. 443
Environmental Problems and Policies	p. 451
Preserving Biodiversity	p. 451
Preview	p. 451
The Diversity of Life	p. 459
What Is a Species?	p. 465
Why Do Species Matter?	p. 469
Why Species Matter	p. 476
Food and Agriculture	p. 484
Preview	p. 484
A Plant's-Eye View of the World	p. 491
Patenting Life	p. 496
Brute-Force Genetic Engineering	p. 498
Genes in the Good!	p. 502
Nature as the Measure for a Sustainable Agriculture	p. 508
What's in the Meat	p. 516
Wilderness and Forests	p. 519
Preview	p. 519
Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique	p. 521
Tropical Forests and Their Species: Going, Going ...?	p. 529
The Mismanagement of the National Forests	p. 534
Forest Service Policy	p. 543
Corporate Responsibility	p. 546
Preview	p. 546
Environmental Racism	p. 550
Consumption and the Environment	p. 555
Consumption as a Theme in the North-South Dialogue	p. 556
The Chainsaws of Greed: The Case of Pacific Lumber	p. 559
Why Shouldn't Corporations Be Socially Responsible?	p. 571
"I Am No Greenpeacer, But ..." or Environmentalism, Risk Communication, and the Lower Middle Class	p. 575
Sliding to Global Catastrophe	p. 587
Preview	p. 587
Silent Spring	p. 595
The Case That the World Has Reached Limits	p. 598
The Climate-Change Debacle: The Perils of Politicizing Science	p. 607
A Response	p. 615
Climate Change Science	p. 620
Sidelight: Let's Transform the Military	p. 622
Varieties of Activism	p. 625
Preview	p. 625
Strategic Monkeywrenching	p. 628
The Sea Shepherds: Bringing Justice to the High Seas	p. 632
An Apologia for Activism: Global Responsibility, Ethical Advocacy, and Environmental Problems	p. 634
Involuntary Simplicity: Changing Dysfunctional Habits of Consumption	p. 643
Sidelight: A Resistance Movement of One's Own	p. 648
Learning and Research Tools	p. 650
Glossary	p. 650
Time Chart	p. 656
Internet and Other Environmental Resources	p. 657
Bibliography	p. 659
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