Matthew Alan Cahn, Rory O'Brien

Thinking About the Environment

Readings on Politics, Property and the Physical World

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Produktbeschreibung

Underlying current controversies about environmental regulation are shared concerns, divided interests and different ways of thinking about the earth and our proper relationship to it. This book brings together writings on nature and environment that illuminate thought and action in this realm.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781563247965
• ISBN-10: 1563247968
• Artikelnr.: 22001043

Autorenporträt

Matthew Alan Cahn, Rory O'Brien

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Thinking About the Environment: What's Theory Got to Do With It?
Rory O'Brien
Matthew Cahn; Part I The Physical World; Chapter 2 On the Physical World: An Introduction
Rory O'Brien; Chapter 3 The Creation of the World
Genesis; Chapter 4 The Purpose of Nature
Aristotle; Chapter 5 The City of God
AugustineSt.; Chapter 6 Creation in Light of Luiseño Religion
Sam Gill; Chapter 7 The Hopi Myth of Creation
Frank Waters; Part II Law and Property; Chapter 8 Law
Property
and the Environment: An Introduction
Rory O'Brien; Chapter 9 The Nature of Private Property
Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Chapter 10 Of Property
John Locke; Chapter 11 The Commodity
Karl Marx; Chapter 12 The Categorical Imperative
Immanuel Kant; Chapter 13 The Problem of Justice Between Generations
John Rawls; Chapter 14 The New Forms of Control
Herbert Marcuse; Chapter 15 Liberalism and Environmental Quality
Matthew Cahn; Part III The Green Critique; Chapter 16 The Green Critique: An Introduction
Matthew Cahn; Chapter 17 Higher Laws
Henry David Thoreau; Chapter 18 Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson; Chapter 19 Silent Spring
Rachel Carson; Chapter 20 The Population Bomb
Paul Ehrlich; Chapter 21 The Closing Circle: Nature
Man
and Technology
Barry Commoner; Chapter 22 Ecology: The Shallow and the Deep
Arne Naess; Chapter 23 The Tragedy of the Commons
Garrett Hardin; Chapter 24 Feminism and the Revolt of Nature
Ynestra King; Chapter 25 The Concept of Social Ecology
Murray Bookchin; Chapter 26 The Diversity of Life
Edward O. Wilson; Chapter 27 Environmental Racism and the Environmental Justice Movement
Robert D. Bullard; Part IV Accommodating the Future; Chapter 28 Accommodating the Future: Strategies for Resolving the Environmental Quagmire
Matthew Cahn; Chapter 29 Environmental Justice
Peter Wenz; Chapter 30 Should Trees Have Standing?
ChristopherStone; Chapter 31 Ecological Literacy
David W. Orr; Chapter 32 Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our Way Out
Lester Milbrath; Chapter 33 Free Market Environmentalism
Terry L. Anderson
Donald R. Leal; Chapter 34 Steady-State Economics
Herman E. Daly; Chapter 35 Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics
Robert C. Paehlke; Chapter 36 Normative Theory and Public Policy
Rory O'Brien; Chapter 37 Democratic Dilemmas in the Age of Ecology
Daniel Press; Chapter 38 Rights and the Further Future
James L. Hudson; Chapter 39 Thinking About Sustainable Development: What's Theory Got to Do With It?
Robert O. Vos;