Environmental Ethics for Canadians
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Canada
- Date of Publication 15 October 2015
- ISBN 9780199014491
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages480 pages
- Size 229x184x22 mm
- Weight 652 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 figure; 1 table; 14 photos 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
Environmental Ethics for Canadians is a comprehensive introduction to the core ethical questions shaping contemporary environmental debates. A hybrid textbook and reader, this text combines classic essays with contemporary selections and case studies designed for students to fully engage with current issues in environmental ethics.
Williston's book is unique amongst environmental ethics textbooks in that it both is comprehensive in scope and explicitly addresses environmental issues - from theory to practice - that are of pressing concern to Canadians."
Table of Contents:
* 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
