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Sacred mountains : a Christian ethical approach to mountaintop removal /

Proposes a Christian ethical analysis of the controversial mining practice that has increasingly divided the US and has often led to fierce and even violent confrontations. Andrew R.H. Thompson provides a thorough introduction to the issues surrounding surface mining, including the environmental con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thompson, Andrew R. H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Colección:Place matters.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ethics in its place
  • Overturning mountains
  • Downstream impacts: environmental, economic, and social effects of mountaintop removal
  • Environmental ethics and the construction of values
  • Relation, revelation, and revolution: a theocentric approach to mountaintop removal
  • The meanings of the mountains: discourses of power, identity, and destruction in the mountaintop removal debate
  • All my holy mountain: power, identity, and reclamation from a theocentric perspective
  • Loving the mountains: conclusions, challenges, and ways forward.