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Environmental Ethics and Process Thinking
by Clare Palmer. 243 pgs.

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In this study, Clare Palmer challenges the belief that the process thinking of writers like A.N. Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne has offered an unambiguously positive contribution to environmental ethics. She compares process ethics to a variety of other forms of environmental ethics, as well as deep ecology, and reveals a number of difficulties associated with process thinking about the environment.

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Introduction

1: Process Thinking, the Creation of Value, and Approaches to Ethics

2: Process Thinking, Individualist Consequentialism, and Animals

3: Process Thinking and Individualist Deontological Environmental Ethics

4: Process Thinking and Collectivist

5: Whitehead's Philosophy and the Deep Ecology Movement

Conclusions

References

Index
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Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology and Natural Selection
by Lisa H. Sideris. 312 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: This View of Life the Significance of Evolutionary Theory for Environmental Ethics

2: The Best of All Possible Worlds Ecofeminist Views of Nature and Ethics

3: The Ecological Model and the Reanimation of Nature

4: Darwinian Equality for All Secular Views of Animal Rights and Liberation

5: Philosophical and Theological Critiques of Ecological Theology Broadening Environmental Ethics from Ecocentric and Theocentric Perspectives

6: A Comprehensive Naturalized Ethic

Conclusion: Finitude and Responsibility

Notes

Works Cited

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Philosophy Gone Wild: Environmental Ethics
by Holmes Rolston III. 269 pgs.

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Preface

I. Ethics and Nature

1: Is There an Ecological Ethic?

Notes

2: Can and Ought We to Follow Nature?

3: Philosophical Aspects of the Environment

4: The River of Life: Past, Present, and Future

Ii. Values in Nature

5: Values in Nature

Notes

6: Are Values in Nature Subjective or Objective?

7: Values Gone Wild

Iii. Environmental Philosophy in Practice

8: Just Environmental Business

Introduction

References

9: Valuing Wildlands

Iv. Nature in Experience

11: Lake Solitude: The Individual in Wildness

12: Meditation at the Precambrian Contact

13: Farewell, Washington County

14: Nature and Human Emotions

Subject Index
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Environment Ethics and the Corporation
by Grant Ledgerwood, Arlene Idol Broadhurst. 281 pgs.

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Providing a unique analysis of the growing social and environmental responsibility within the corporate sector, this book discusses corporate innovation, entrepreneurial approaches and corporate culture.

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Environment, Ethics and the Corporation

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List of Tables, Figures and Boxes

List of Cases

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: The Macro-Planetary Process: Business and the Global Environment

1: The Environmentalisation of International Business

2: Global Business Innovation and the Environment

3: Global Trends and the Corporate Response

4: Environmental Diplomacy and Corporations in the World-Wide Web of Interaction

5: Greenpeace: Case Study of an NGO Multinational Enterprise

Part II: The Meso-Micro Terrestrial Environment: Corporations, Nations and Cities

6: The Metropolitan Corporate Centre: Reinvention of the Medieval City-State

7: The Environmental Entrepreneur: Personality and Culture

8: Corporate Innovation in the Fast Lane: Environmental Technologies and Planning the New Industrial Metabolism

9: Nations and Cities: Sustainability Models

Part III: Ethics and Futures: Social and Environmental Ethics

10: Business Ethics: National and International Dimensions of Social Responsibility

11: Globalisation and the Environmentalised Corporation: Present Exemplars and Future Prospects

Notes and References

Bibliography

Index
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The Corporation, Ethics, and the Environment
by W. Michael Hoffman, Robert Frederick, Edward S. Petry Jr. 356 pgs.

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This volume focuses on the role of businesses in protecting the environment, utilizing studies of previous cases as well as current strategies and methods of possible future corporate conduct. The book provides an overview of the topic of business, ethics, and the environment, a series of recent cases and analyses, current and proposed corporate strategies, and suggestions for future approaches to business and environmental problems.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I BUSINESS, ETHICS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT: AN OVERVIEW

1: Terre Gaste

2: Animism Redivivus: Are New Visions of Nature a Threat to Homo Sapiens?

NOTES

3: Can a Corporation Have an Environmental Conscience?

Conclusion

NOTES

4: Hazardous Wastes: Ethical Dilemmas of Ends and Means, Heroes and Villains

References

5: Straws in the Wind: The Nature of Corporate Commitment to Environmental Issues

Conclusion

NOTES

II CORPORATIONS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: CASES AND ANALYSES

6: Du Pont and Corporate Environmentalism

7: Total Quality: Ethics and the Environment

8: Martin Marietta's Commitment to Environmental Protection

9: The Chainsaws of Greed: The Case of Pacific Lumber

NOTES

Conclusion

10: The Exxon Valdez Crisis

11: Rational Risk and Moral Outrage: Arthur D. Little, Inc., and the Toxic Alert

References

12: Union Carbide Limited and the Bhopal Gas Incident: Issues and Commentary

Conclusion

NOTE

13: Business Ethics When a Crisis Occurs

14: Union Carbide Corporation's Liability for the Bhopal Disaster: Multinational Enterprise Liability

15: The Proposal of Multinational Enterprise Liability in the Bhopal Litigation

III NEW CORPORATE STRATEGIES FOR CONTROLLING ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS

16: Environment and Business in the 1990s: Threats, Opportunities, and Prospects for Cooperation

17: The Development and Implementation of Industry-wide Environmental Codes of Practice

Conclusions

NOTES

18: Dilemmas of Disclosure: Ethical Issues in Environmental Auditing

Conclusion

NOTES

References

19: Anthropocentric Ethics in Organizations: How Different Strategic Management Schools View the Environment

References

20: Explaining Corporate Responses to Environmental Crises: A Game Theoretical Approach

Conclusions

References

IV LOOKING TO THE FUTURE: NEW APPROACHES TO THE PROBLEMS OF BUSINESS, ETHICS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT

21: Economics, Ethics, and the Environment

22: The Principle of Integrity and The Economy of the Earth

Conclusion

23: From Environment to Biosphere: The Necessary Reanimation of Ethical Discourse

24: Ecological Sabotage and the Ethics of Radical Environmentalism

25: Getting the Environment into the Business School

Conclusion

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26: Environmental Attitudes, Behaviors, and Decision Making: Implications for Management Education and Development

Conclusion

NOTES

27: From Environmentalism to Ecophilosophy: Retooling Cultures for the Twenty-First Century

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Limiting Risks: Environmental Ethics as a Policy Primer, in Policy Studies Journal
by Leslie Paul Thiele. 18 pgs.

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Business, Ethics, and the Environment: The Public Policy Debate
by W. Michael Hoffman, Robert Frederick, Edward S. Petry Jr. 253 pgs.

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This volume studies the ethical obligations that businesses may have for protecting the environment. It explores the public policy debate of how to regulate corporations--or how corporations should regulate themselves--to deal with important environmental issues. The essays are grouped in three separate sections, covering business and government interaction, public attitudes and involvement in environmental issues, and environmental problems and solutions. The focus throughout is on specific environmental issues and case studies.

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Figures and Tables

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I: Business and Government: Cooperation and Regualtion

1: Government-Business Relationships for Environmental Protection

2: Making Polluters Pay

3: The Civic Society and Hazardous Waste Management

4: Community Involvement as an Integral Component of Siting: a Case Study of Siting Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities

5: Business Responses to Environmental Policy: Lessons from Cfc. Regulation

6: Water in the United States: Balancing the Law and Ethics of Environmental Protection and Economic Growth

7: Administrative Behavior, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: the Norfolk, Massachusetts, Solid Waste Dispute

8: Promoting Source Reduction Strategies in the Massachusetts Jewelry Manufacturing Industry: the Se Project

9: Morality, Money, and Motor Cars

II: Public Attitudes and Involvement in Environmental Issues

10: I Am No Greenpeacer, but . . . or Environmentalism, Risk Communication, and the Lower Middle Class

11: Environmentalism as a Humanism

12: Comments on Sagoff's Environmentalism as Populism

13: Customers as Environmentalists

14: An Environmental Agenda for the 1990s

15: Worldwide Responses to the Environmental Crisis

16: Community-Corporate Conflict and the New Environmentalism: Four Cases on the Use of Lime Lakes and Mine Cavities for Hazardous Waste Storage and Disposal

III: Environmental Problems and Solutions

17: Not in Their Backyards, Either: a Proposal for a Foreign Environmental Practices Act

18: The Ethics of Development and the Dilemmas of Global Environmentalism

19: The Improbability of Third World Government Consent in the Coming North-South International Toxic Waste Trade

20: Water Resources, Economic Development, and Species Extinction: a Case Study

21: Defending the Use of Animals by Business: Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics

22: Ethics at Sea: the Dolphin-Tuna Controversy

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Environment, Development, Agriculture: Integrated Policy Through Human Ecology (Part Two "Ethical--Political Dimensions")
by Bernhard Glaeser. 174 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Part One: A Theoretical Paradigm

Chapter 1: An Outline of Human Ecology

Chapter 2: Applications for Human Ecology

Part Two Ethical -- Political Dimensions

Chapter 3: Environmental Ethics: Possibilities and Limits

Chapter 4: Environmental Policy in Germany

Part Three: Implementation: Two Examples

Chapter 5: Environment and Development in China: Problems and Policies

Chapter 6: A Human Ecology Approach to Sustainable Agricultural Development: the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Part Four: Consequences for Future Thinking and Action

Chapter 7: Agrarian Culture Between Conceptual Reconstruction and Empirics

Chapter 8: Nature in Crisis? a Cultural Misunderstanding

References

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Global Ethics and Environment
by Nicholas Low. 320 pgs.

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Global Ethics and Environment explores several ethical issues from a range of perspectives and uses a wide range of case studies. The book focuses on the impact of development in new industrial regions and the ethical relationship between human and non-human nature. The editors also discuss the ethics of the impact of a single event, like the Chernobyl disaster, on the global community.

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Figures and Tables

1: Introduction

2: An Outline of the Problems Ahead

References

Part I: Environmental Justice Challenges

3: Environmental Justice Challenges at Home and Abroad

4: Ecological Balance in an Era of Globalization

5: Chernobyl, Global Environmental Injustice and Mutagenic Threats

6: Justice, the Market and Climate Change

Part II: Environmental Justice: Issues of Principle

7: Considerations on the Environment of Justice

References

8: Care-Sensitive Ethics and Situated Universalism

Notes

9: Ethics Across the Species Boundary

References

10: Mapping Human Rights

11: Indigenous Ecologies and an Ethic of Connection

12: Ecological Ethics from Rights to Recognition

Part III: Global Political Justice

13: Indigenous Peoples, the Conservation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Global Governance

14: Fairness Matters

15: Global Ecological Democracy

16: Restructuring the Space of Democracy

References and Further Reading

Index
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Multicultural Environmental Ethics, in Daedalus
by J. Baird Callicott. 21 pgs.

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In Nature's Interests? Interests, Animal Rights, and Environmental Ethics
by Gary E. Varner. 160 pgs.

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This book offers a powerful response to what Varner calls the "two dogmas of environmental ethics"--the assumptions that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric views are each antithetical to sound environmental policy. Allowing that every living organism has interests which ought, other things being equal, to be protected, Varner contends that some interests take priority over others. He defends both a sentientist principle giving priority to the lives of organisms with conscious desires and an anthropocentric principle giving priority to certain very inclusive interests which only humans have. He then shows that these principles not only comport with but provide significant support for environmental goals.

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Introduction Interests, Holism, and Environmental Ethics

Chapter One a Critique of Environmental Holism

Conclusion

Chapter Two Localizing Desire

Chapter Three Biological Interests Questioning the Mental State Theory of Welfare

Chapter Four the Principle of Inclusiveness Establishing Priorities Among Interests

Chapter Five Can Animal Rights Activists Be Environmentalists?

Chapter Six Justifying the Environmentalist Agenda

Conclusion Two Dogmas of Environmental Ethics

References

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Ethics and the Built Environment
by Warwick Fox. 240 pgs.

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Much has been written in recent years on environmental ethics relating to the more general 'natural' environment but little specifically written about ethics of the built environment. Ethics and the Built Environment responds to this need and offers a debate on the ethical dimension of building in all its forms from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and approaches.This book should be of interest to architects, students of building and building design, environmentalists, politicians and general readers with an interest in ethics.

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Illustrations

Contributors

Acknowledgements

1: Introduction

References

Part I: The Green Imperative - and Its Vicissitudes

2: Greening Urban Society

Notes

3: Building Ethics into the Built Environment

Reference

4: Green Building

5: Building, Global Warming and Ethics

Bibliography

6: Contested Constructions

Part II: Building with Greater Sensitivity to People(s) and Places

7: Social Inclusion and the Sustainable City

References

8: Transformative Architecture

9: Ethics and Vernacular Architecture

10: Ethical Building in the Everyday Environment

11: Can ‘spirit of Place’ Be a Guide to Ethical Building?

Part III: Steps Towards a Theory of the Ethics of the Built Environment

12: The Conceptual Basis of Building Ethics

13: How to Think About the Ethics of Architecture

References

14: The Taj Mahal and the Spider’s Web

15: Ethical Arguments About the Aesthetics of Architecture

16: Towards an Ethics (or at Least a Value Theory) of the Built Environment

17: Conclusion

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