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- Crossroads: Environmental Priorities for the Future, ed. Peter Borrelli, (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1988), 324 pp.
- Crossroads: Environmental Priorities for the
Future is an examination of the trends in environmentalism, environmental activism, environmental litigation and eco-philosophy with the perspective of each of these areas.
- Beyond the Fray: Reshaping America's Environmental Response, Daniel D. Chiras, (Colorado: Johnson Books, 1990), 206 pp.
- Beyond the Fray: Reshaping America's
Environmental Response is an examination of the philosophical change which must take place in order for environmentalism to become the mainstream ethic.
- Why Posterity Matters: Environmental Policies and Future Generations, Avner de-Shalit, (London: Routledge, 1995) 155pp.
- Why Posterity Matters: Environmental
Policies and Future Generations is a philosophical examination of how future generations must be considered in the formulation of contemporary environmental policy. de-Shalit offers one approach for structuring an obligation to future generations.
- Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy, Lori Gruen &Dale Jamieson, (eds), (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 362 pp.
- Reflecting on
Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy is an examination of environmental philosophy. The editors combine the writings of prominent moral philosophers from Aristotle and John Locke to Bernard Williams and Jonathan Glover with contemporary environmental philosophers in
an attempt to "... illuminate some of the connections between environmental philosophy and the philosophical tradition."
- Reinventing Nature? Response to Postmodern Deconstructionism, Michel E. Soule & Gary Lease (eds), (Washington DC: Island Press, 1995), 173pp.
- Reinventing
Nature? Response to Postmodern Deconstructionism is a philosophical response to postmodern deconstructionism which questions the concepts of nature and wilderness in a way that potentially threatens their existence. The collection of nine freestanding essays each addresses as
separate criticism of postmodern deconstructionism.
- Wilderness and the American Mind, Roderick Nash, (Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1967), 288pp.
- Wilderness and the American Mind is an examination, both
cultural and philosophical, of the evolution of the American concept of wilderness. Nash employs the work of historical and contemporary figures who wrote from a Western perspective about the American concept of wilderness.
- The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics, Roderick FrazierNash, (Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press, 1989), 278pp.
- The Rights of Nature: A
History of Environmental Ethics, according to theauthor, is "... concerned with the history and implications of the idea that morality ought to include the relationship of humans to nature." This work focuses upon the intellectual history of this idea and thus presents the philosophical
foundations of environmental ethics.
- Ecology, Policy and Politics: Human Well-Being and the Natural World, John O'Neill, (New York: Routledge, 1993), 219pp.
- Ecology, Policy and Politics: Human
Well-Being and the Natural World is a philosophical examination of what the author proposes to be an adequate foundation for policy- making and political decisions about environmental issues. The author argues for a relationship between the intrinsic value of the natural world and
human well-being.
- Upstream/Downstream: Issues in Environmental Ethics, Donald Scherer, (ed), (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990), 234 pp.
- Upstream/Downstream: Issues in
Environmental Ethics is a collection of essays which address environmental problems from a philosophical perspective and divides environmental values into two, distinct "...constellation of values"; upstream and downstream values.
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