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Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application

By Louis P. Pojman, Paul Pojman, Katie McShane

7th Edition © 2017
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Course:Ethics
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ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS, 7th Edition offers a comprehensive overview of the main issues and topics in environmental ethics today. Using a dialogic pro-con format, this edition presents both sides of key concepts and takes students seamlessly from theory to application. Like its predecessors, the seventh edition is an anthology comprised of classic writings in environmental ethics as well as contemporary readings that reflect current thinking in the field. This edition also includes new selections on Nature and Naturalness, Future Generations, Individualist Biocentrism, Population and Consumption, Holism, Environmental Justice, Sustainability, Food Ethics, and Climate Change.

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ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS, 7th Edition offers a comprehensive overview of the main issues and topics in environmental ethics today. Using a dialogic pro-con format, this edition presents both sides of key concepts and takes students seamlessly from theory to application. Like its predecessors, the seventh edition is an anthology comprised of classic writings in environmental ethics as well as contemporary readings that reflect current thinking in the field. This edition also includes new selections on Nature and Naturalness, Future Generations, Individualist Biocentrism, Population and Consumption, Holism, Environmental Justice, Sustainability, Food Ethics, and Climate Change.

"What Is Ethics?" section provides an accessible primer on the nature of ethics and ethical theories upon which students can to build their course knowledge.

Chapter introductions establish a framework for the readings, provide background material on social contexts, and key issues to consider.

The conclusion of each reading presents study questions for discussion or reflection, as well as suggestions for further reading on related topics.

A comprehensive index allows teachers to locate different discussions of the same topic, quickly find examples, point out definitions, and highlight arguments.

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Contents
Preface
Introduction
What is Ethics?
Part I: Theory
Part II: Practice
Index

Part I: Theory

Ch 1: Introduction
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1 Contested Frameworks in Environmental Ethics ↗
2 Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments ↗
3 Global Environment and International Inequality ↗
Ch 2: Future Generations
4 Energy Policy and the Further Future: The Identity Problem
5 The Rights of Past and Future Persons
6 Intergenerational Justice
Ch 3: Animal Rights
7 Rational Beings Alone Have Moral Worth
8 The Green Kant: Kant's Treatment of Animals
9 A Utilitarian Defense of Animal Liberation
10 The Radical Egalitarian Case for Animal Rights
11 A Critique of Regan's Animal Rights Theory
12 Against Zoos
Ch 4: Nature and Naturalness
13 Naturalizing Values: Organisms and Species
14 Comments on Holmes Rolston's "Naturalizing Values"
15 Nature
16 Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature
Ch 5: Individualist Biocentrism
17 Reverence for Life
18 Biocentric Egalitarianism
19 Biocentrism and Artificial Life
20 Reverence for Life as a Viable Environmental Virtue
Ch 6: Holism
21 The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecological Movement
22 Ecosophy T: Deep versus Shallow Ecology
23 Deep Ecology
24 The Land Ethic
25 The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic
26 Eco-Interests
27 Against the Moral Considerability of Ecosystems
28 Why Do Species Matter?
29 Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects
Ch 7: Environmental Justice
30 Radical Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique
31 Overcoming Racism in Environmental Decision Making
32 Just Garbage: The Problem of Environmental Racism
33 Deceiving the Third World: The Myth of Catching-Up Development
34 Environmental Risks, Rights, and the Failure of Liberal Democracy: Some Possible Remedies
35 Indigenous Knowledge and Technology: Creating Environmental Justice in the Twenty-First Century
36 Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation
37 The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism
38 The Earth Charter: From Global Ethics to International Law Instrument
39 The Earth Charter
Ch 8: Sustainability
40 Towards Sustainable Development
41 Sustainable Development: Economic Myths and Ecological Realities
42 At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions are Not All Economic
43 Toward a Just and Sustainable Economic Order
44 What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism
45 An Ecological Critique of Global Advertising
46 The Challenge of the Future: Private Property, the City, the Globe, and a Sustainable Society

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