Environmental Ethics

Introduction to the Volume: Ethics and Environmental Ethics (Andrew Light and Holmes Rolston III).

Part I: What is Environmental Ethics? An Introduction.

1. An Overview of Environmental Ethics (Clare Palmer).

2. "The Land Ethic" (Aldo Leopold).

3. Is There a Need for a New, an Environmental, Ethic? (Richard Sylvan).

Part II: Who Counts in an Environmental Ethics? Animals? Plants? Ecosystems?.

4. "Not for Humans Only: The Place of Nonhumans in Environmental Issues" (Peter Singer).

5. "Animal Rights: What's in a Name?" Plus a brief extract from "The Case for Animal Rights" (Tom Regan).

6. "The Ethics of Respect for Nature" (Paul Taylor).

7. "Is There a Place for Animals in the Moral Consideration of Nature?" (Eric Katz).

8. "Can Animal Rights Activists Be Environmentalists?" (Gary Varner).

9. "Against the Moral Considerability of Ecosystems" (Harley Cahen).

Part III: Is Nature Intrinsically Valuable?.

10. "Varieties of Intrinsic Value" (John O'Neill).

11. "Value in Nature and the Nature of Value" (Holmes Rolston, III).

12. "Source and Locus of Intrinsic Value" (Keekok Lee).

13. "Environmental Ethics and Weak Anthropocentrism" (Bryan Norton).

14. "Weak Anthropocentric Intrinsic Value" (Eugene Hargrove).

Part IV: Is There One Environmental Ethic? Monism versus Pluralism.

15. "Moral Pluralism and the Course of Environmental Ethics" (Christopher Stone).

16. "The Case against Moral Pluralism" (J. Baird Callicott).

17. "Minimal, Moderate, and Extreme Moral Pluralism" (Peter Wenz).

18. "Callicott and Naess on Pluralism" (Andrew Light).

Part V: Reframing Environmental Ethics: What Alternatives Exist?.

Deep Ecology.

19. "Deep Ecology: A New Philosophy of our Time?" (Warwick Fox).

20. "The Deep Ecology Movement: Some Philosophical Aspects" (Arne Naess).

Ecofeminism.

21. "Ecofeminism: Toward Global Justice and Planetary Health" (Greta Gaard and Lori Gruen).

22. "Ecological Feminism and Ecosystem Ecology" (Karren J. Warren and Jim Cheney).

Environmental Pragmatism.

23. "Beyond Intrinsic Value: Pragmatism in Environmental Ethics" (Anthony Weston).

24. "Pragmatism in Environmental Ethics: Democracy, Pluralism, and the Management of Nature" (Ben A. Minteer and Robert E. Manning).

Part VI: Focusing on Central Issues: Sustaining, Restoring, Preserving Nature.

Is Sustainability Possible?.

25. "Sustainable Resources Ethics" (Donald Scherer).

26. "Toward a Just and Sustainble Economic Order" (John Cobb).

27. "Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming" (Dale Jamieson).

Can and Ought We Restore Nature?.

28. "Faking Nature" (Robert Elliot).

29. "The Big Lie: Human Restoration of Nature" (Eric Katz).

30. "Ecological Restoration and the Culture of Nature: A Pragmatic Perspective" (Andrew Light).

Should We Preserve Wilderness?.

31. "An Amalgmation of Wilderness Preservation Arguments" (Michael P. Nelson).

32. "A Critique of and an Alternative to the Wilderness Idea" (J. Baird Callicott).

33. "Wilderness -- Now More than Ever" (Reed F. Noss).

Part VII: What on Earth Do We Want? Human Social Issues and Environmental Values.

34. "Feeding People versus Saving Nature" (Holmes Rolston, III).

35. "Saving Nature, Feeding People and Ethics" (Robin Attfield).

36. "Integrating Environmentalism and Human Rights" (James W. Nickel and Eduardo Viola).

37. "Environmental Justice: An Environmental Civil Rights Value Acceptable to All World Views" (Troy W. Hartley).

38. "Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice" (Brian Barry).

39. "Democracy and Sense of Place Values in Environmental Policy" (Bryan Norton and Bruce Hannon).

40. "Environmental Awareness and Liberal Education" (Andrew Brennan).

Index.