Boundaries - A Casebook in Environmental Ethics

Informationen zum Autor Christine E. Gudorf is professor and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Florida International University. She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Indonesia in 2002. She is the coauthor of Christian Ethics: A Case Method Approach and author of Body! Sex! and Pleasure: Reconstructing Christian Sexual Ethics. James E. Huchingson is professor emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies at Florida International University. He is the editor of Religion and the Natural Sciences: The Range of Engagement and author of Pandemonium Tremendum: Chaos and Mystery in the Life of God. Klappentext Focusing on environmental ethics! this title highlights the key developments and theories in the environmental movement. It features specific cases offering a diverse range of situations from around the globe! from saving the forests of Java and the use of pesticides in developing countries to restoring degraded ecosystems in Nebraska. Zusammenfassung Focusing on environmental ethics! this title highlights the key developments and theories in the environmental movement. It features specific cases offering a diverse range of situations from around the globe! from saving the forests of Java and the use of pesticides in developing countries to restoring degraded ecosystems in Nebraska. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I. Environmental Ethics: The Range of Engagement 1. Theory in Environmental Ethics 2. We're All in This... Alone: The Individual and Community Part II. Maintaining and Managing the Ecosystem3. For Ecological Health or Profit? The POPs Elimination Treaty 4. Heart Thieves: Preserving Endangered Ecosystems or Endangered Cultures in Madagascar 5. Must Java Have No Forests? Nature Preserves and Human Population Pressures 6. Buried Alive: Future Generations and Permanent Underground Disposal of Nuclear Waste 7. Water: Economic Commodity and Divine Gift 8. Guardian Angels of Angel Oak: To Till or Keep Part III. Restoring and Re-creating the Ecosystem9. River Run or River Ruined: Hydropower or Free-Flowing Rivers? 10. Nature Creates Deserts Too: Addressing Desertification in China 11. Rewilding: Restoration of Degraded Ecosystems 12. Planning for Climate Change Part IV. Ecosystem Interventions Aimed at Innovation13. Improving on Natural Variation? Genetically Modified Foods 14. Nature Red in Tooth! Claw! and Bullet: Hunting and Human Presence in Nature 15. Understanding Xenotransplants: Crossbreeding Humans or Advanced Domestication of Animals? Appendix: Using Environmental Case Studies in the Classroom Index ...

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• Authors: Christine E. Gudorf, Christine E. (Professor and Chair Gudorf, Christine E. Huchingson Gudorf, James E. Huchingson, James E. (Professor Emeritus Huchingson
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2010
• EAN: 9781589016361
• ISBN: 978-1-58901-636-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Boundaries; Boundaries
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works