Written for a wide range of readers in environmental science, philosophy, and policy-oriented programs, this volume is a landmark, comprehensive reference work in this interdisciplinary field. Not merely a review of theoretical approaches, the Companion focuses on specific environmental problems and other concrete issues.
Written for a wide range of readers in environmental science, philosophy, and policy-oriented programs, this volume is a landmark, comprehensive reference work in this interdisciplinary field. Not merely a review of theoretical approaches, the
Companion focuses on specific environmental problems and other concrete issues.
Written for a wide range of readers in environmental science, philosophy, and policy-oriented programs The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics is a landmark, comprehensive reference work in this interdisciplinary field. Not merely a review of theoretical approaches to the ethics of the environment, the Companion focuses on specific environmental problems and other concrete issues. Its 65 chapters, all appearing in print here for the first time, have been organized into the following eleven parts:
I. Animals
II. Land
III. Water
IV. Climate
V. Energy and Extraction
VI. Cities
VII. Agriculture
VIII. Environmental Transformation
IX. Policy Frameworks and Response Measures
X. Regulatory Tools
XI. Advocacy and Activism
The volume not only explains the nuances of important core philosophical positions, but also cuts new pathways for the integration of important ethical and policy issues into environmental philosophy. It will be of immense help to undergraduate students and other readers coming up to the field for the first time, but also serve as a valuable resource for more advanced students as well as researchers who need a trusted resource that also offers fresh, policy-centered approaches.
Introduction Part I: Animals
1. Animal Cognition and Moral Status
2.
Eating
3. Experimentation
4. Companion Animals
5. Species and Wildlife
6.
Wild Animals
7. Hunting Part II: Land
8. Forests
9. Mountains: Rethinking
Thinking Like a Mountain
10. Wilderness
11. National Parks
12. Landscape
13.
Property Part III: Water
14. Water Quality and Availability
15. Wetlands
16.
Rivers and Watersheds
17. Ocean Policy
18. Fishing and Harvesting
19. The
Ethics of Marine Protected Areas Part IV: Climate
20. Moral Bases of
Responses to Climate Change
21. Climate Modeling
22. Climate Change
Mitigation
23. Climate Justice and Equity
24. Geoengineering
25. Skepticism
and Denialism Part V: Energy and Extraction
26. Fossil Fuels
27. Mining
28.
Nuclear Power
29. Hydropower
30. Renewable Energy
31. Natural Gas and
Fracking
32. Energy Poverty Part VI: Cities
33. Urban Sustainability
34.
Urban Parks and Open Space
35. Suburbs and Exurbs
36. Transportation
37.
Waste and Consumption Part VII: Agriculture
38. Food
39. Industrial
Agriculture
40. Biotechnology
41. Sustainable Agriculture
42. Community
Gardens Part VIII: Environmental Transformation
43. Remediation
44.
Restoration
45. Assisted Migration and Reintroduction
46. Zoos and
Conservation
47. Rewilding
48. Novel Ecosystems Part IX: Policy Frameworks
and Response Measures
49. Pollution and Polluter Pays
50. Constitutional
Rights
51. Libertarianism
52. Prediction and Forecasting
53. Disaster
Response Part X: Regulatory Tools
54. Command and Control
55. Economic
Instruments
56. Cost-Benefit Analysis
57. Risk Assessment
58. Precautionary
Principles
59. Adaptive Management Part XI: Advocacy and Activism
60.
Education
61. Everyday Aesthetics
62. Community Participation
63.
Environmental Justice
64. Environmental Civil Disobedience
65. Lawbreaking
and Ecoterrorism
Benjamin Hale is Associate Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His primary area of research is environmental and public health ethics, and he is the author of the book, The Wild and the Wicked: On Nature and Human Nature (2016).
Andrew Light is University Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy, and Atmospheric Sciences, and Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University. He is currently on leave, serving as Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy. He is the author of over 100 articles and book chapters on climate change, restoration ecology, and urban sustainability, and has authored, co-authored, and edited 19 books, including Environmental Values (Routledge, 2008), Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice (2003), Technology and the Good Life? (2000), and Environmental Pragmatism (Routledge, 1996). He was previously a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C., and served as Senior Advisor and India Counselor to the U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change in the U.S. Department of State.
Lydia A. Lawhon is Research Associate in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research broadly investigates the drivers of practical conflicts between people and large carnivores and the political conflicts between people over large carnivore management.
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