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"Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics explores the implications of Zen Buddhist teachings and practices for our moral relations with the natural world. At once an accessible introduction to Zen and an important contribution to the debate concerning the environmental implication…
The essays in this collection address the militaristic discourse deployed by humans against invasive species and consider alternative relationships of cohabitation.
"Facing droughts, floods, and water security challenges, society is increasingly forced to develop new policies and practices to cope with the impacts of climate change. From taken-for-granted values and perceptions to embodied, existential modes of engaging our world, human per…
Bioprospecting - the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance - has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous communities an incentive to preserve their rich biodiversity. But ca…
Bioprospecting - the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance - has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous communities an incentive to preserve their rich biodiversity. But ca…
Introduction: What Planet Are You On? -- Earth at the Threshold -- Who Speaks through the Earth? -- Planetary Social Life in the Making -- What is Planetary Social Thought? -- Inhuman Modernity, Earthly Violence -- Terra mobilis -- Grounding Colonialism, Decolonizing the Earth -…
For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, overconsuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and invasive species ever known, we are wrecking the planet at an unprecedented rate. And while science is important to our understanding of …
This collection of essays on nature and wildlife conservation covers the ethics of animal conservation and protection; conservation behavior and enlightened management; conservation economics and politics; human dimensions of social justice, empathy, and compassion for animals a…
The Oxford handbook of environmental ethics
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"A pioneering exploration of the roots of our attitudes toward nature, Paul Shepard's most seminal work is as challenging and provocative today as it was when it first appeared in 1967. Man in the Landscape was among the first books of a new genre that has elucidated the ideas, …
"Respect for Nature defends a biocentric theory of environmental ethics. Without making claims for the moral rights of plants and animals, Paul Taylor offers a reasoned alternative to the prevailing anthropocentric view, according to which the natural environment and its wild bi…