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Philosophy : environmental ethics / David Schmidtz, editor.

Contributor(s): Series: Gale eBooks | Macmillan interdisciplinary handbooks. Philosophy.Publisher: Farmington Hills, Mich. : Macmillan Reference USA, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2017]Copyright date: �2017Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 335 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraitsContent type:
  • text
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780028663418
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Philosophy.DDC classification:
  • 113 23
LOC classification:
  • GE42 .P478 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
The relationship between humans and nature / Douglas MacLean -- Climate change and geoengineering / Lauren Hartzell-Nichols -- Populations and the environment / Norva Y.S. Lo, Andrew Brennan -- Novel ecosystems and adapting nature conservation / Allen Thompson -- Extinction, intervention, and resurrection / Benjamin Hale -- Animal ethics / Clare Palmer -- Two views of animals in environmental ethics / Gary Comstock -- Commodifying wildlife / Michael 't Sas-Rolfes -- Ecological justice / David Schmidtz -- Turning adversaries into allies : conciliation in environmental politics / Dan C. Shahar -- The tonic of wildness : Henry David Thoreau's environmental ethics / Philip Cafaro -- Defending aesthetic protectionism / Ned Hettinger.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Ebook Ebook NMC Library Gale Virtual Reference Library Online GE42 .P478 2017 EBOOK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available online - NMC Login required 2019-236276

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The relationship between humans and nature / Douglas MacLean -- Climate change and geoengineering / Lauren Hartzell-Nichols -- Populations and the environment / Norva Y.S. Lo, Andrew Brennan -- Novel ecosystems and adapting nature conservation / Allen Thompson -- Extinction, intervention, and resurrection / Benjamin Hale -- Animal ethics / Clare Palmer -- Two views of animals in environmental ethics / Gary Comstock -- Commodifying wildlife / Michael 't Sas-Rolfes -- Ecological justice / David Schmidtz -- Turning adversaries into allies : conciliation in environmental politics / Dan C. Shahar -- The tonic of wildness : Henry David Thoreau's environmental ethics / Philip Cafaro -- Defending aesthetic protectionism / Ned Hettinger.

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.

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