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Environmental Restoration: Ethics, Theory, and Practice
Throop, William
Outlines philosophical perspectives on the rapidly growing but controversial practice of environmental restoration, covering arguments for and against restoration, their underlying values, and ways restoration goals might be achieved.
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Engineering and Environmental Ethics: A Case Study Approach
John Wiley & Sons; ASIN: 0471292362; June 9, 1998
John
R. Wilcox (Editor), Louis
Theodore
This book offers the opportunity to learn directly from other engineers' experiences through more than 100 absorbing case studies that typify common ethical problems. Taking a neutral viewpoint for each case, the authors supply helpful commentaries in which they address underlying philosophical issues, weigh the pros and cons of possible responses, and offer expert opinions on how the problem could have been resolved better or differently. The cases are organized both by engineering specialty (chemical, civil, electrical, and mechanical) and by environmental concerns (air, water, solid waste, domestic, and safety and accident management).
http://www.ethicsweb.ca/books/index-profl.htm |
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Values, Ethics, and Attitudes Toward National Forest Management: An Empirical Study
Robert Manning, William Valliere, Ben Minteer
Society and Natural Resources
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Issue: Volume 12, Number 5/June 1, 1999, Pages: 421 - 436
This study measures environmental values and ethics and explores their relation ships to attitudes toward national forest management. The principal research methods were literature review and a survey of Vermont residents concerning management of the Green Mountain National Forest. Descriptive findings suggest respondents (1) favor nonmaterial values of national forests, (2) subscribe to a diversity of environmental ethics, including anthropocentric and bio-ecocentric, and (3) support emerging concepts of ecosystem management. Environmental values and ethics explain approximately 60% of the variation in attitudes toward national forest management.
Values, Ethics, and Attitudes Toward National Forest Management: An Empirical Study |
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Ethics in the Woods
Karen Syse
Ethics, Place & Environment
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Company, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 4, Number 3/October 1, 2001, Pages: 226 - 234
This paper explores the ethical aspects of an investigation into a forester's perception of his landscape. Three different ethical issues are addressed. The first issue concerns the ethics associated with the methodology of ethnology. The second concerns a forester's ethics. An example is provided which indicates how he applies values and aesthetics to the landscape in which he lives and works. Finally, the ethics of wilderness is discussed, concentrating on the different ways in which people perceive wilderness and wilderness issues, depending on their relationship with the forest landscape. The article concludes by questioning whether the ways in which wilderness is culturally constructed can lead to misconceptions about human-forest interaction, and by asking whether emphasis on wilderness as a positive value has been exaggerated.
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Environmental Ethics, Green Politics and the History of Predator Biology
Michael Lansing
Ethics, Place & Environment
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Company, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 5, Number 1/March 01, 2002, Pages: 43 - 49
Understanding the ethics and politics of environmentalism, as well as predator biology, means thinking in new ways about objectivity. The history of predator biology shows how scientists order nature as they interact with non-humans. If science ultimately orders nature as its comprehends it, the implications for environmental ethics and politics, which continue to call on the authority of objective science, loom large.
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The Ethical Dilemma of the Public Natural Resources Manager
Gerald Kaufman
The economy or the environment, can we ethically one or the other, or can we have both?
This ethical dilemma is debated across the country in newspaper columns about oil drilling in national wildlife refuges and the effects of sprawl development on the landscape. With a dwindling land base, a rising population and the quest for economic prosperity, it might be refreshing for public natural resources managers to reconsider the discipline of environmental ethics when considering policies to protect our land, water, and natural resources.
The Ethical Dilemma of the Public Natural Resources Manager |
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Testing the Waters 2002: A Guide to Water Quality at Vacation Beaches
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NRDC's 12th annual survey of water quality monitoring and public notification programs at U.S. beaches finds that beach closings and swimmer advisories rose 19 percent from 2000 to 2001, reflecting better monitoring and reporting, but also pointing to major water pollution problems. The survey, published in August 2002, is based on information reported for 2001. Maps providing beach-by-beach ratings are a web-only feature of the report. |
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Ethics and the Environment (Journal)
An interdisciplinary forum for theoretical and practical articles, discussions, reviews, comments, and book reviews in the broad area encompassed by environmental ethics. Supported by the Center for Humanities and Arts, the Philosophy Department, and the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program at the University of Georgia, and edited by Victoria Davion, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, the journal focuses on conceptual approaches in ethical theory and ecological philosophy, including deep ecology and ecological feminism, as they pertain to environmental issues such as environmental education and management, ecological economics, and ecosystem health.
http://www.phil.uga.edu/eande/ |
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Environmental Values
Journal ISSN: 0963-2719
Editor: Alan Holland,
Lancaster University (Philosophy);
Associate Editors: Michael Hammond, Lancaster
University (Philosophy);
Robin Grove-White, Lancaster University (Centre for the Study of Environmental
Change); John Proops, University of Keele (Ecological Economics)
Concerned with the basis and justification of environmental policy. Journal aims to bring together contributions from philosophy, law, economics and other disciplines, which relate to the present and future environment of humans and other species; and to clarify the relationship between practical policy issues and more fundamental underlying principles or assumptions.
http://www.cep.unt.edu/values.html |
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Earth Ethics
Award winning journal which publishes the best thinking in emerging earth ethics. Articles focus on sustainable practices in education, religion, the arts, business, agriculture, and other fields. Writers provide updates on international forums which are challenging current economic and development practices. The journal promotes alternative models for sustainable communities and lifestyles, based in ecospiritual practice and principles. Book reviews, event calendars, and feature articles bring fresh resources for those wishing to accelerate our transition to a just and sustainable future.
http://www.center1.com/ethics.html |
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Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to forge a socially responsible land ethic, which ensures ecologically and economically sustainable resource management.
http://www.afseee.org/ |
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Environmental Ethics Journal - an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the philosophical aspects of environmental problems.
http://www.cep.unt.edu/enethics.html |
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International Society for Environmental Ethics
http://www.cep.unt.edu/ISEE.html |
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International Society for Environmental Ethics Newsletter
http://www.phil.unt.edu/ISEE/ |
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Cato Institute: Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - established to challenge the "market failure" critique of free markets with regards to the energy industry and the environmental commons.
http://www.Cato.org/research/natur-st.html |
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CorpWatch - information about the social and environmental impacts of corporate globalization. Includes investigative reporting, activist tools, and research guide.
http://www.corpwatch.org/ |
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Case for Private Environmental Stewardship - takes a look at the stereotype that business is anti-environment.
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA250.html |
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Center for Environmental Philosophy - holds workshops for environmentalists and environmental professionals.
http://www.cep.unt.edu/ |
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Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries
This code was adopted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Fisheries Department on October 31, 1995. It sets out principles and international standards of behavior for responsible practices to ensure effective conservation, management and development of living aquatic resources, with due respect for the ecosystem and biodiversity. The Code recognizes the nutritional, economic, social, environmental and cultural importance of fisheries, and the interests of those concerned with the fishery sector. The Code takes into account the biological characteristics of the resources and their environment and the interests of environment and the interests of consumers and other users. States and all those involved in fisheries are encouraged to apply the Code and give effect to it.
http://sedac.ciesin.org/entri/texts/FAOCode.html |
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