Title:
Philosophy : environmental ethics / David Schmidtz, editor.
Author:
Schmidtz, David, editor.
Publication Information:
Farmington Hills : Macmillan Reference USA, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.
Call Number:
GE42 .P478 2017
Abstract:
This volume is composed of twelve chapters covering such topics as population, novel ecoysystem, geoengineering, climate change, animal ethics, conciliation, and extinction. The use of film, literature, art, case studies, and other disciplines or situations/events provide illustrations of human experiences which work as gateways to questions philosophers try to address.
ISBN:
9780028663326
Series:
Macmillan interdisciplinary handbooks
Physical Description:
xxiii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Contents:
The relationship between humans and nature / Climate change and geoengineering / Populations and the environment / Novel ecosystems and adapting nature conservation / Extinction, intervention, and resurrection / Animal ethics / Two views of animals in environmental ethics / Commodifying wildlife / Ecological justice / Turning adversaries into allies: conciliation in environmental politics / The tonic of wildness: Henry David Thoreau's environmental ethics / Defending aesthetic protectionism
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