Upstream/Downstream
Issues in Environmental Ethics
Published on 19. April 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
277 pages
978-1-56639-079-8 (ISBN)
Description
Philosophy applied to environmental issues
Reviews / Votes
"This book contains admirable examples of applied philosophy with solid conceptual analysis of critical social and legal issues.... The articles are accessible to an educated layman [and]...suitable for use in upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental philosophy, law, political theory, and -to a lesser degree-economics and history. Select essays can be read profitably by those with interests in environmental policy making, consulting, interpretation, and enforcement."-Environmental History Review "The essays in Donald Scherer's Upstream/Downstream offer serious readers more to get their teeth into.... [Scherer] deserves congratulation for welding his authors' pieces into a stimulating and satisfying whole...written in accessible, reasonably non-technical language."
-Environmental Values
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56639-079-8 (9781566390798)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Donald Scherer is Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University.
Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Molding of Norms and Environments Donald Scherer 2. On the Rights of Future Generations Ernest Partridge 3. Managing the Future: Public Policy, Scientific Uncertainty, and Global Warming Dale Jamieson 4. Models, Scientific Method, and Environmental Ethics Kristine Shader-Frechette 5. Can Today's International System Handle Transboundary Environmental Problems? Daniel Barstow Magraw and James W. Nickel 6. Takings, Just Compensation, and the Environment Murk Sagoff 7. The Consequences of My Action, Your Action, and the Company's Action Burt Gruzalski 8. Two Types of Cost-Benefit Analysis Alan Gewirth About the Contributors Index