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Characteristics of Environmental Ethics: Environmental Activists' Accounts, in Ethics & Behavior » Read Now
by Wendy A. Horwitz. 23 pgs.

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...Characteristics of Environmental Ethics: Environmental Activists...qualitative investigation of environmental ethics as construed by environmental...and justice. Key words:...
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Developmental Origins of Environmental Ethics: The Life Experiences of Activists, in Ethics & Behavior » Read Now
by Wendy A. Horwitz. 25 pgs.

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...Developmental Origins of Environmental Ethics: The Life Experiences of...influences that gave rise to environmental ethics in their own lives. Answers...contributed to the...
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Environmental Ethics and Process Thinking » Read Now
by Clare Palmer. 243 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

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

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...PHILOSOPHY GONE WILD ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS HOLMES ROLSTON, III PROMETHEUS...this logic on ecological ethics. Environmental science describes what is...of Ecological Science...
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Environment Ethics and the Corporation » Read Now
by Grant Ledgerwood, Arlene Idol Broadhurst. 281 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

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

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

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

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...Limiting Risks: Environmental Ethics as a Policy Primer. by...ensure that ecological laws and environmental ethics have their day in court...include political philosophy...
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Business, Ethics, and the Environment: The Public Policy Debate » Read Now
by W. Michael Hoffman, Robert Frederick, Edward S. Petry Jr. 253 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

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

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...agriculture. 3. Human ecology. 4. Environmental ethics. I. Title. HC79. E5G57...3 Environmental ethics: possibilities and limits...the fundamental issues of environmental...
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Global Ethics and Environment » Read Now
by Nicholas Low. 320 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

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...
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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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Multicultural Environmental Ethics, in Daedalus » Read Now
by J. Baird Callicott. 21 pgs.

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...Multicultural Environmental Ethics. by J. Baird Callicott...MAIN APPROACH to a theory of environmental ethics is "anthropocentricism"--that...well-developed, way of...
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Feminism and Environmental Ethics: A Materialist Perspective', in Ethics and the Environment » Read Now
by Mary Mellor. 17 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Feminism and Environmental Ethics: A Materialist Perspective...and nature. FEMINISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS An important starting point for the development of an...
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In Nature's Interests? Interests, Animal Rights, and Environmental Ethics » Read Now
by Gary E. Varner. 160 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

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...
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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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Life's Intrinsic Value: Science, Ethics, and Nature » Read Now
by Nicholas Agar. 196 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Are bacteriophage T4 and the long-nosed elephant fish valuable in their own right? Nicholas Agar defends an affirmative answer to this question by arguing that anything living is intrinsically valuable. This claim challenges received ethical wisdom according to which only human beings are valuable...
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Are bacteriophage T4 and the long-nosed elephant fish valuable in their own right? Nicholas Agar defends an affirmative answer to this question by arguing that anything living is intrinsically valuable. This claim challenges received ethical wisdom according to which only human beings are valuable in themselves. The resulting biocentric or life-centered morality forms the platform for an ethic of the environment. Agar builds a bridge between the biological sciences and what he calls "folk" morality to arrive at a workable environmental ethic and a new spectrum -- a new hierarchy -- of living organisms. The book overturns common-sense moral belief as well as centuries of philosophical speculation on the exclusive moral significance of humans. Spanning several fields, including philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science, and other areas of contemporary analytic philosophy, Agar analyzes and speaks to a wide array of historic and contemporary views, from Aristotle and Kant, to E. O. Wilson, Holmes Rolston II, and Baird Callicot. The result is a challenge to prevailing definitions of value and a call for a scientifically-informed appreciation of nature.
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Given-Ness and Gift: Property and the Quest for Environmental Ethics, in Environmental Law » Read Now
by Carol M. Rose. 30 pgs.

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...property and the quest for environmental ethics. by Carol M. Rose...of a number of others in environmental ethics, and thus may be taken as...44) IV. Three Sources Of...
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Ethics and the Built Environment » Read Now
by Warwick Fox. 240 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

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...
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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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