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 …
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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…
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 -…
This book includes fifty-nine essays by the environmentalist author best known for presenting a call for conservation efforts in his book A Sand County Almanac.
Presenting an integrated approach to ethics that covers interhuman ethics, the ethics of the natural environment (including animals), and the ethics of the built environment, this work argues that the relational quality of responsive cohesion represents the most fundamental valu…
"Hope on Earth is the thought-provoking result of a lively and wide-ranging conversation between two of the world's leading interdisciplinary environmental scientists: Paul R. Ehrlich, whose book The Population Bomb shook the world in 1968 (and continues to shake it), and Michae…
"Hope on Earth is the thought-provoking result of a lively and wide-ranging conversation between two of the world's leading interdisciplinary environmental scientists: Paul R. Ehrlich, whose book The Population Bomb shook the world in 1968 (and continues to shake it), and Michae…
"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…
