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The environmental endgame : mainstream economics, ecological disaster, and human survival
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ISBN: 1280947055 9786610947058 0813539390 9780813539393 9780813538129 0813538122 9781280947056 Year: 2006 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,

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For decades, scholars have warned of an impending global environmental crisis. Yet politicians, particularly in the United States, have consistently shown that they are not taking the threat seriously. Initiatives aimed at protecting the planet are commonly seen as belonging to a category unto themselves-the preserve of scientists and environmental enthusiasts. In this groundbreaking book, Robert L. Nadeau warns that we have moved menacingly close to a global environmental catastrophe and that to evade this fate we must stop drawing a distinction between issues that are "environmental" or "scientific" and those that reside in the sphere of "real life." Although scientists have attempted to bring ecological concerns to the forefront of global issues, problems are rarely communicated in ways that can be readily understood by those outside the scientific community. Bringing together perspectives from a variety of disciplines, including economics, politics, biology, and the history of science, The Environmental Endgame articulates the concerns of scientists in a way that they become the real-life, tangible concerns of people around the world. Nadeau asserts that we have entered a new phase of human history that cannot be one of separation and division but must be one of cooperation and mutual goals. Nadeau demonstrates that our current governmental and financial institutions, based on neoclassical economics, lack the mechanisms for implementing viable solutions to large-scale crises. Such steps cannot be taken without moving beyond the power politics of the nation-state system. The book concludes with a call to view the natural world as part of humanity, not separate from it. This unifying worldview would be a catalyst for implementing the international government organizations necessary to resolving the crisis. The Environmental Endgame is an ambitious and timely book that will change the way we think about our economy, our government, and the environment. It should be read by everyone who cares about the pervasive neglect and abuse of planet Earth and wants to know what can be done about it.

The new accountability
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ISBN: 9786610476213 6000000294 1417589078 1280476214 1136553088 1849773149 9781849773140 9781844070664 1844070662 9781844070671 1844070670 9781136553080 9781417589074 9781280476211 113655307X Year: 2005 Publisher: London Sterling, VA EARTHSCAN


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Environmental Ethics : an Introduction and Learning Guide
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ISBN: 1351277804 1909493627 1906093725 1351277790 9781909493629 9781906093723 9781351277808 Year: 2017 Publisher: London : Taylor and Francis,

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"As the destructive consequences of environmental problems such as global warming, water scarcity and resource and biodiversity destruction have been felt ever more heavily, people are becoming more aware of the importance of and their responsibilities towards environmental protection. The causes of our problems are anthropogenic. The number of people working in what might be termed "environmental industries" or with environmental responsibilities in their day-to-day work has mushroomed. In many cases, however, individuals charged with protecting the environment have a set of empirical priorities: what *is* done, rather than moral priorities which consider what *should* be done. The need to harmonize environmental knowledge with ethical behaviour and thus achieve behavioural change and the internalization of environmentally ethical values has never been more urgent. This book, developed as part of an EU programme to diffuse the application of environmental ethics to decision-making on pollution control, is a response to the need for a restatement of environmental ethics and for a code of behaviour and set of values that can be internalised and adopted to guide the actions by individuals at the sharp end of protecting the environment: decision-makers and environmental experts/executives/staff working in municipalities and public/government organisations throughout the EU and Turkey. It is nothing short of an ethical training manual that will guide environmental experts/decision-makers in making sound judgements and decisions and will act as a bridge between environmental knowledge and environmental behaviour. The book will be essential reading for decision-makers and experts working in local authorities and governmental organisations with responsibility for environmental protection: for both graduate and postgraduate students in environment-related disciplines and for vocational education teachers with a focus on the environment."--Provided by publisher.

Moral habitat : ethos and agency for the sake of earth
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ISBN: 0791479854 1435600193 9781435600195 9780791479858 0791471411 9780791471418 Year: 2007 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Moral Habitat explores how our moral imaginations and moral norms have been shaped by and even cocreated with Earth in diverse biotic communities. Weaving together science and religion with indigenous and womanist traditions, Nancie Erhard uses examples from a variety of sources, including post-Cartesian science, the Old Testament, and the Mi´kmaq tribe of Eastern Canada. She demonstrates how each portrays the agency—including the moral agency—of the natural world. From this cross-cultural approach, she recasts the question of how we conceive of humans as moral agents. While written for "the sake of Earth," this thought-provoking book goes well beyond the issue of ecology to show the contribution that such an approach can make to pluralist ethics on a range of timely social issues.

Do it yourself : a handbook for changing our world
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ISBN: 1849643571 9781849643573 0745326382 0745326374 9780745326375 9780745326382 0745348270 Year: 2007 Publisher: London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto Press,

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A radical guide to ethical and sustainable living.

Skeptical environmentalism : the limits of philosophy and science
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ISBN: 0253109248 9780253109248 9780253340375 0253340373 9780253214973 0253214971 0253340373 0253214971 Year: 2002 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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In Skeptical environmentalism, Robert Kirkman raises doubts about the speculative tendencies elaborated in environmental ethics, deep ecology, social ecology, postmodern ecology, ecofeminism, and environmental pragmatism. Drawing on skeptical principles introduced by David Hume, Kirkman takes issue with key tenets of speculative environmentalism, namely that the natural world is fundamentally relational, that humans have a moral obligation to protect the order of nature, and that understanding the relationship between nature and humankind holds the key to solving the environmental crisis. Engaging the work of Kant, Hegel, Descartes, Rousseau, and Heidegger, among others, Kirkman reveals the relational worldview as an unreliable basis for knowledge and truth claims, and as harmful to the intellectual sources from which it takes inspiration. Exploring such themes as the way knowledge about nature is formulated, what characterizes an ecological worldview, how environmental worldviews become established, and how we find our place in nature, Skeptical environmentalism advocates a shift away from the philosopher's privileged position as truth seeker toward a more practical thinking that balances conflicts between values and worldviews.

Environment and our global community
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ISBN: 1617700037 1423747607 9781423747604 9781617700033 1932716122 9781932716122 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York International Debate Education Association

The new accountability environmental responsibility across borders.
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ISBN: 1844070670 1844070662 9781844070664 9781844070664 Year: 2005 Publisher: London Earthscan

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"Drawing on case studies, this book provides a fresh understanding of democratic accountability for transboundary and global harm and argues that environmental responsibility should be established in open public discussions about harm and risk"--Provided by publisher.


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The incompleat eco-philosopher
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ISBN: 1441603859 9781441603852 9780791476697 0791476693 9780791476703 0791476707 0791477274 9780791477274 Year: 2009 Publisher: Albany SUNY Press

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This collection of germinal work in the field by Anthony Weston presents his pragmatic environmental philosophy, calling for reconstruction and imagination rather than deconstruction and analysis. It is a philosopher's invitation to environmental ethics in an unexpectedly inviting and down-to-earth key. On the pragmatic view advanced here, environmental values are thoroughly natural—what else could they be?—and are open-ended and in flux. Rather than passing judgment on the world as it is, we are called to rediscover and remake the world as it might be. We require an environmental etiquette more than a formal ethic; an etiquette whose development must be an ongoing process; and a process in turn that is genuinely multicentric, challenging us to negotiate our place among the exuberant variety of living and other forms.


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Hans Jonas's ethic of responsibility
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ISBN: 1461951429 1438448821 9781461951421 9781438448824 9781438448817 1438448813 1438448805 9781438448800 Year: 2013 Publisher: Albany

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"Articulates the fundamental importance of ontology to Hans Jonas's environmental ethics"--Provided by publisher.

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