Environmental Ethics

PART ONE: METHODOLOGIES AND PERSPECTIVES CHAPTER 1: SCIENCE Woodward & Goldstein - Conduct, Misconduct, and the Structure of Science Leslie Stevenson - Is Scientific Research Value-Neutral? E.O. Wilson - The Little Things that Run the World Robert Costanza - Toward an Operational Definition of Ecosystem Health Jack Ward Thomas - Integrity as Professionalism CHAPTER 2: MORALITY Tom Regan - Ethical Thinking and Theory Anthony Weston - Before Environmental Ethics Rolston Holmes III - Environmental Ethics Aaron Sachs - What Greenspeace and Amnesty International are Learning from Each Other CHAPTER 3: AESTHETICS Henry David Thoreau - Walking John Muir - Near View of the High Sierras Annie Dillard - Seeing Allen Carlson - Aesthetic Appreciation of the Natural Environment J. Baird Callicott - The Land Aesthetic Gary Nabhan - The Far Outside Stephanie Mills - The Wild and the Tame CHAPTER 4: HISTORICAL CONTEXT J. Donald Hughes - The Ancient Roots of Our Ecological Crisis J. Donald Hughes and Jim Swan - How Much of the Earth is Sacred Space Neil Evernden - Nature in Industrial Society PART TWO: FUNDAMENTAL WORLD VIEWS CHAPTER 5: MONOTHEISM, JUDAISM, cHRISTIANITY, ISLAM St. Francis of Assisi - The Canticle of Brother Sun Lynn White - The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis Jeanne Kay - Concepts of Nature in the Hebrew Bible Wendell Berry - The Gift of the Good Land Matthew Fox - Christian Spirituality Mawil Y. Izzi Deen (Samarai) - Islamic Environmental Ethics CHAPTER 6: ADDITIONAL RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES N. Scott Momady - A First American's View Annie Booth and Harvey L. Jacobs - Ties That Bind: Native American Beliefs as a Foundation for Environmental Consciousness Gary Nabhan - Cultural Parallax in Viewing North American Habitats J. Baird Callicott - African Biocommunitarianism and Australian Dreamtime Lily de Silva - The Buddhist Attitude Toward Nature Po-Keung Ip - Taoism and the Foundation of Environmental Ethics Ramachandra Guha - Radical Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique (Part contents)