Doing Environmental Ethics

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Avalon Publishing, 10 февр. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 370

Doing Environmental Ethics offers a way to face our ecological crisis that draws on environmental science, economic theory, international law, and religious teachings, as well as philosophical arguments. It engages readers in constructing ethical presumptions based on our duty (to other persons and species and also to ecosystems), our character (personal virtues), our relationships (with other persons and nature), and our rights (to sustainable development and a healthy environment). Then it tests these moral presumptions by predicting the likely consequences of acting on them. Readers apply what they have learned to specific policy issues discussed in the final part of the book: sustainable consumption, environmental policy, clean air and water, agriculture, managing public lands, urban ecology, and climate change. Questions after each chapter and a worksheet aid readers in deciding how to live more responsibly as consumers and as citizens. “What you do matters,” Robert Traer writes, “and the person you are also matters. In ethics we look for reasons to explain why this is so.”

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ETHICS AND SCIENCE
1
Ecosystems and Emergent Properties
25
CONSTRUCTING AND TESTING
53
Ecological Virtues
71
Empathy and Integrity
87
Humans and Animals?
103
Predicting the Future
121
Worksheet
138
Land and Food
201
Adaptive Management
219
Building Green
237
Global Warming
257
Notes
275
Bibliography
349
Index
357
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A Healthy Environment
183

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Robert Traer holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, a J.D. from the School of Law of the University of California at Davis, and a D.Min. from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He is a member of the faculty at Dominican University in San Rafael, California. With Harlan Stelmach, he is coauthor of Doing Ethics in a Diverse World (Westview Press, 2008).

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