Environmental Ethics for Canadians

Herausgeber: Williston, Byron

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Produktbeschreibung

Designed for second- and third-year university and college courses on environmental ethics or philosophy and the environment, Environmental Ethics for Canadians 2e is a comprehensive introduction to the core ethical questions shaping contemporary environmental debates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780199014491
• ISBN-10: 0199014493
• Artikelnr.: 47871229

Autorenporträt

Byron Williston, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier University

Inhaltsangabe

Indicates commissioned article
Introduction
The Nature of Moral Assessment
Challenges to Morality I: Ethical Egoism
Challenges to Morality II: Ethical Relativism
Four Normative Theories
Part One: Moral Standing
1: Animal Welfarism
Moral Standing and Speciesism
- "All Animals Are Equal"
Beyond Utilitarianism
Problems with Animal Welfarism and Animal Citizenship
- "Animal Citizenship" (Canadian) (commissioned)
NEW
Case Study: Sustainabilitarianism and Eating Beef
2: Biocentrism
Rights for Living Things?
- "Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects"
Biocentric Egalitarianism
- "The Biocentric Outlook on Nature"
Human Superiority and Inter-Species Conflict
Case Study: Respect for Nature and the North Mackenzie River Watershed
3: Ecocentrism and Deep Ecology
The Land Ethic
- "The Land Ethic"
Going Deep
- "Identification as a Source of Deep Ecological Attitudes"
Three Objections and Responses
Case Study: Tallgrass Prairie as an "Endangered Space"
Part Two: Challenges and New Directions
4: Economics and Ecology
Optimal Thinking
- "People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution"
The Allure of Cost-Benefit Analysis
Problems with Cost-Benefit Analysis
- "Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming"
NEW
Case Study: Aquaculture and the Economic Growth Imperative
5: Environmental Pragmatism
Two Problems with Intrinsic Value
Value Pluralism: Reclaiming the Land Ethic
- "Before Environmental Ethics"
The Importance of Building Consensus
- "Environmental Pragmatism"
Case Study: Protecting Canada's Freshwater Resource
6: Ecofeminism
Sexism and Naturism: Making the Connection
- "The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism"
Overcoming Dualisms
Ecofeminism Now
- "Ecofeminists Without Borders: The Power of Method"
NEW
E Conclusion
Case Study: Dioxin in Breast Milk and Women as Frontline Environmentalists
7: Environmental Aesthetics
Beauty and Duty: Mapping the Terrain
- "Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature and Environmentalism"
The Dispositive Character of Natural Beauty Judgments
- "The Moral Dimensions of Natural Beauty"
Aesthetic Weight and the Preservationist's Dilemma
- "Aesthetic Preservation"
Case Study: Nunavut and the Reciprocity Thesis
8: First Nations' Perspectives
The Circle
- "The Sacred Circle of Life"
Confronting Myths of the Ecological Amerindian
- "The 'Ecological Indian' and Environmentalism"
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Case Study: Language, Land, and the Residential Schools
9: Environmental Virtue Ethics
Human Excellence and the Environment
- "Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments"
Epistemic Environmental Virtues
- "Epistemic Virtue and the Ecological Crisis" NEW
Two Objections and Responses
Case Study: Three Canadian Environmentalist Exemplars
10: Social Ecology and Environmental Activism
Bookchin's Social Ecology
The Importance of Activism
- "Environmental Political Activism"
NEW
The Problem of Domination
Integrity and Stewardship
- "Ecological Integrity: Between Ethics and Law"
NEW
Case Study: Fighting Hierarchy through Access to Knowledge
Part Three: Environmental Issues
11: Climate Change
Confronting Climate Change Denial
Responsibility for Climate Change
- "American Disenlightenment, or Climate Change Made in the USA"
NEW
The Problem of Political Inertia
- "Saved by Disaster? Abrupt Climate Change, Political Inertia, and the Possibility of an Intergenerational Arms Race"
Case Study: Current Effects of Climate Change: The Mountain Pine Beetle
12: Population and Consumption
Malthus's Challenge
- "An Essay on the Principle of Population"
The Economist's Retort
- "Can the Supply of Natural Resources Really Be Infinite? Yes!"
Peak Oil and the Tar Sands
Case Study: Making Space for Grizzlies
13: The Biodiversity Crisis
Species or Individuals?
The Nature of Biodiversity
- "The Power of Diversity"
The Value of Biodiversity
- "Why Put a Value on Biodiversity?"
Species Preservation: The Challenge of Climate Change
- "Global Climate Change and Species Preservation"
NEW
Case Study: Biodiversity in Carolinian Canada
14: Sustainability
Sustainability and Human Needs
- "The Concept of 'Sustainability'"
Sustainability and Substitutability
Sustainability and the City
- "Sustainability and Sense of Place"
Case Study: Nuclear Power: Unsustainable Train to the Future?