Refounding Environmental Ethics
Pragmatism, Principle, and Practice
Published on 4. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-1-4399-0084-0 (ISBN)
Description
Explains environmental pragmatism and shows how to apply it to real world issues
Reviews / Votes
"Minteer's new book lives up to its title: Refounding Environmental Ethics. [Minteer] builds his search for environmental values on a firm foundation in social science, which is essential to his pragmatist approach. He builds on Dewey's conception of democracy to deepen and broaden the intellectual base for environmental pragmatism, supporting a pluralistic way to determine and pursue environmental values, and he intertwines his argument with case studies and real situations. [This] book will be especially useful for environmental ethics classes designed for environmental studies or environmental policy students." -Bryan G. Norton,Distinguished Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of TechnologyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia PA
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
298 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4399-0084-0 (9781439900840)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Ben A. Minteer is Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics and Policy in the School of Life Sciences and is a Senior Sustainability Scholar in the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. He is author of The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America, and the editor of Nature in Common?: Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy (Temple).
Content
Acknowledgments 1 Foundations Old and New 2 Democracy and Environmental Ethics: A Justi'cation 3 The Public and Its Environmental Problems 4 Intrinsic Value for Pragmatists 5 Natural Piety, Environmental Ethics, and Sustainability 6 Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics: A Pragmatic Reconciliation 7 Pluralism, Contextualism, and Natural Resource Management: Getting Empirical in Environmental Ethics 8 A Practical Ethics for Ecologists and Biodiversity Managers (with James P. Collins) 9 Conservation after Preservation References Index