Eco-Justice--The Unfinished Journey

Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction to the Journey


Part I: The Eco-Justice Perspective: Crisis, Meaning, and Motivation


1. Not Just Ecology, Not Just Economics-ECO-JUSTICE
Chris Cowap


2. Eco-Justice: What Is It?
William E. Gibson


3. Growth as Metaphor, Growth as Politics
Richard Grossman


4. Come Inside the Circle of Creation
Elizabeth Dodson Gray


5. Creation and Liberation as a Continuing Story
William E. Gibson


6. Teaching the Eco-Justice Ethic: The Parable of Billerica Dam
J. Ronald Engel


Conclusion to Part I


Part II: Eco-Justice Issues


Section A. Toxic Pollution and Environmental Justice


7. Toxic Pollution and Race
Charles Lee


8. Corporations and Community Accountability
J. Andy Smith III

Section B. Technology and Energy


9. Technology: Opportunity and Peril
Roger L. Shinn


10. The Conundrum of Oil: Less Would Be Better
William E. Gibson


Section C. Creatures, System, and Sense of Place

11. Duties to Animals, Plants, Species, and Ecosystems: Challenges for Christians
Holmes Rolston III


12. Of Place, Creation, and Relations
George E. Tinker (as Interviewed by Sabine O'Hara)


Section D. Hunger and Agriculture


13. The Persistence of Hunger: Ecological, Economic, and Ethical Dimensions
Larry L. Rasmussen


14. Let My People Farm
Donald Q. Innis


Section E. Population and Women's Concerns


15. Forging Common Ground on Population Issues
Carol Holst


16. Voices of Women on Environment, Population, and Development: Excerpts from Several Issues of the Journal
Elizabeth Dodson Gray, Peggy Antrobus, Karen Rindge, Bernadine Grant McRipley, and Helen Locklear


Section F. Economics, Good Work, and Sustainable Development


17. Sanctioning Resource Depletion: Economic Development and Neo-Classical Economics
Charles A. S. Hall


18. A New Economics for the Twenty-First Century
James Robertson


19. Good Work, the Big Chill, and the Sadness of Dinks
Ingrid Olsen-Tjensvold


20. The Development Debate: Coalition for a New Alternative?
J. Ronald Engel


Section G. Lifestyle and Community


21. Prodigality and Frugality: Core Conflict of the Times
James A. Nash


22. Sustainability and Community
John B. Cobb Jr.

Part III: The Journey Continues


23. The Church's Eco-Justice Journey
Dieter T. Hessel


24. The Earth Charter


25. The Earth Charter, Globalization, and Sustainable Community
Larry L. Rasmussen


26. Concluding Considerations, Continuing Journey
William E. Gibson


Contributors


Index