Boundaries, Second Edition: Boundaries: A Casebook in Environmental Ethics

Boundaries - A Casebook in Environmental Ethics (Electronic book text, Second Edition)

---

Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem?

Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Boundaries by Christine E. A second edition of a fresh and original case-study textbook on environmental ethics. The authors begin with an lucid overview of the field, highlighting key developments and theories in the environmental movement: They then present a series of fourteen narratives or cases in three A second edition of a fresh and original case-study textbook on environmental ethics.

Post navigation

They then present a series of fourteen narratives or cases in three sections: Specific cases deal with such issues as using pesticides in developing countries; preserving ecosystems in Madagascar; the battle of deforestation in Java; disposing of nuclear waste in Nevada; the human cost of restoring coral reefs in Indonesia; the impact of hydropower via U. Each narrative is followed by a commentary section, in which the authors help students make connections between ethical theory and the circumstances of the case.

This second edition features updates and revisions throughout, along with four new cases: Also includes an appendix for teachers on using cases effectively in the classroom. Paperback , pages.

Boundaries : a casebook in environmental ethics

To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Boundaries , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Well written ideas about ethical approaches to environmental ethics and how to use case studies in the classroom to support student thinking.

The explanation of each vinyett is Well done. Jul 25, Peter Jana rated it it was ok Shelves: Boundaries is a useful resource for teaching environmental ethics. It provides specific case studies that bring abstract issues down to earth, and provides a wide-ranging and comprehensible theoretical framework. The first couple of chapters are excellent in summarizing schools of thought.

Boundaries: A Casebook in Environmental Ethics

I was especially impressed with the political discussion in the second chapter. It positions environmental issues around the individualism and collectivism dichotomy that can help place contemporary environmen Boundaries is a useful resource for teaching environmental ethics. It positions environmental issues around the individualism and collectivism dichotomy that can help place contemporary environmental questions in terms relevant to traditional political philosophy. I also appreciate how the authors incorporate religious perspectives at various points throughout the book.

Account Options

This is a much-needed corrective to the short shrift that religious views often receive from the academic political left. Not all of the chapters are as good as others — some of them spend more time on public policy than philosophy, but there is enough philosophical context in the other chapters that the relationship between the two can be teased out by students and the instructor.

Each chapter begins with a dialogue and then moves to an analysis of the positions contained therein. The dialogues are not literary masterpieces and at times I found myself skipping them to get straight to the analysis, but they could be pedagogically effective in the classroom. Nov 30, Curtis rated it really liked it. A very interesting book written in a very creative manner.

Boundaries | Georgetown University Press

Boundaries also includes an appendix for teachers that describes how to use the cases in the classroom. She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Indonesia in She is the coauthor of Christian Ethics: Reconstructing Christian Sexual Ethics. He is the editor of Religion and the Natural Sciences: The Range of Engagement and author of Pandemonium Tremendum: Chaos and Mystery in the Life of God.

Account Options Sign in. Huchingson April 15, 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. Flowing text, Original pages. Web, Tablet, Phone, eReader.

Find a copy in the library

It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are. Please follow the detailed Help center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders. Religion and the Natural Sciences: The Range of Engagement. The first half of 'Religion and the Natural Sciences' is an introduction to the discussion of science and religion. Here the reader learns why there is any debate at all and what resources exist for responding to it. The second half deals with specific issues that arise in the individual sciences, from astronomy and physics to biology and ecology.

Any project hoping to connect science and religion must supply the categories of connection, which are found primarily, although not exclusively, in philosophy.

The simplicity of the arrangement and the nature of the selections are intended to make 'Religion and the Natural Sciences' available to as wide an audience as possible, including students from the sciences and technology, the professions, the humanities and liberal studies, and theology. In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our physical world. The status quo is no longer an option.

Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies.

• Deflowering Georgiana (Taken Book 5)
• Escape From El Dorado
• Fourth (4th) Grade Rats Reading Group Activity Guide
• 32 Transsexual Haiku
• Cowboys From Hell
• Cada dia penso en tu (Clàssica) (Catalan Edition)