TY - BOOK ID - 358442 TI - Philosophy of ecology AU - DeLaplante, Kevin AU - Brown, Bryson AU - Peacock, Kent A PY - 2011 VL - 11 SN - 9780444516732 9780080930756 0080930751 1283115646 9781283115643 0444516735 9786613115645 PB - Kidlington, Oxford, UK Waltham, MA North Holland DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy of science KW - Ecology KW - Ecophilosophy KW - Philosophy KW - Applied ecology. KW - Environmental protection KW - Nature conservation KW - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:358442 AB - The most pressing problems facing humanity today - over-population, energy shortages, climate change, soil erosion, species extinctions, the risk of epidemic disease, the threat of warfare that could destroy all the hard-won gains of civilization, and even the recent fibrillations of the stock market - are all ecological or have a large ecological component. in this volume philosophers turn their attention to understanding the science of ecology and its huge implications for the human project. To get the application of ecology to policy or other practical concerns right, humanity need ER -