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Boundaries : a casebook in environmental ethics /

In this expanded and revised edition of a fresh and original case-study textbook on environmental ethics, Christine Gudorf and James Huchingson continue to explore the line that separates the current state of the environment from what it should be in the future. Boundaries begins with a lucid overvi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gudorf, Christine E.
Otros Autores: Huchingson, James Edward, 1940-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2010.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Theory in environmental ethics
  • We're all in this ... alone : the individual and community
  • For ecological health or profit? : the POPs elimination treaty
  • Heart thieves : preserving endangered ecosystems or endangered cultures in Madagascar
  • Must Java have no forests? : nature preserves and human population pressures
  • Buried alive : future generations and permanent underground disposal of nuclear waste
  • Water : economic commodity and divine gift
  • Guardian angels of Angel Oak : to till or keep
  • River run or river ruined : hydropower or free-flowing rivers?
  • Nature creates deserts too : addressing desertification in China
  • Rewilding : restoration of degraded ecosystems
  • Planning for climate change
  • Improving on natural variation? : genetically modified foods
  • Nature red in tooth, claw, and bullet : hunting and human presence in nature
  • Understanding xenotransplants : crossbreeding humans or advanced domestication of animals?
  • Appendix : Using environmental case studies in the classroom.