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Book SynopsisIn The Global and the Local: An Environmental Ethics Casebook, Dale Murray presents fifty-one actual, unique, and compelling case studies. The book covers a wide variety of environmental topics from those as global as overfishing, climate change, ocean acidification, and e-waste, to those topics as local as whether we should place salt on the driveway during winter, construct rain gardens, or believe we have a duty to hunt. The book also features an easy to read, yet rigorous introductory section exposing readers to ethical theories and approaches to environmental ethics. By interweaving these theoretical considerations into long and short case studies, Murray illuminates a comprehensive range of the most pressing environmental issues facing our biosphere both today and in the future.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part 1 – Theory and Applied Theory Chapter 1 – General Moral Theories Utilitarianism Kantian Deontology Virtue Ethics Value Chapter 2 – Applications and Approaches to Environmental Ethics Applied Ethics Anthropocentric Environmental Ethics Biocentrism vs. Ecocentrism Deep Ecology Social Ecology Ecofeminism Leopold’s Land Ethic Extensions of Utilitarianism Extensions of Deontology Extensions of Virtue Ethics Part 2 – The Cases Chapter 3 – What is Natural? Does it Matter? Chapter 4 – Business Vs. Environmental Protection Chapter 5 – The Environment, Global Challenges, and Global Economies Chapter 6 – The Greening of Institutions Chapter 7 – Recreation and Environmental Ethics Chapter 8 – Environmental Reform and Unintended Consequences Chapter 9 – Relations between Human and Non-Human Animals Chapter 10 – Think Globally, Act Locally Chapter 11 – Are These Really Environmental Problems? Bibliography Index
