The Environmental Ethics and Policy Book: Philosophy, Ecology, EconomicsThis text and sourcebook crosses disciplinary boundaries and attends seriously to economic reasoning and its implications for environmental policy issues while taking a broad view of questions of ethics. It is appropriate and valuable not only for philosophy and environmental science students but also for students of economics, biology, engineering, and public policy. |
Contents
Religious and Cultural Perspectives | 43 |
For God So Loved the World Andrew Linzey | 55 |
Alternative Views of Nature Nina Rosenstand | 59 |
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animal rights anthropocentric approach argue argument Arne Naess assumption attitude Baird Callicott basic behavior benefits biocentric biotic Callicott claim common compensation concept concern consider cost-benefit analysis costs criterion critique culture decision deep ecology discussion dualism duties earth ecofeminism ecofeminist economic economists ecosystems efficiency environment Environmental Ethics essay example fact feminine feminism feminist forests framework gender growth harm human important individual interests involved issues justify land ethic Leopold living maximize means ment mental million moral standing Naess natural resources nomic nonhuman one's oppression Pareto patriarchy person Peter Singer philosophers plants political pollution population preferences Press principle problem production property rights question reason relevant respect risk role ronmental sense social society species Speciesism theory things tion tive Tom Regan traditional University utilitarian utility Val Plumwood wrong