Thinking About the Environment: Readings on Politics, Property and the Physical World

by Matthew Alan Cahn, Rory O'Brien

Overview

Underlying current controversies about environmental regulation are shared concerns, divided interests and different ways of thinking about the earth and our proper relationship to it. This book brings together writings on nature and environment that illuminate thought and action in this realm.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563247965
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/31/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Matthew Alan Cahn, Rory O’Brien

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Thinking About the Environment: What’s Theory Got to Do With It?, Rory O’Brien, Matthew Cahn; Part I The Physical World; Chapter 2 On the Physical World: An Introduction, Rory O’Brien; Chapter 3 The Creation of the World, Genesis; Chapter 4 The Purpose of Nature, Aristotle; Chapter 5 The City of God, AugustineSt.; Chapter 6 Creation in Light of Luiseño Religion, Sam Gill; Chapter 7 The Hopi Myth of Creation, Frank Waters; Part II Law and Property; Chapter 8 Law, Property, and the Environment: An Introduction, Rory O’Brien; Chapter 9 The Nature of Private Property, Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Chapter 10 Of Property, John Locke; Chapter 11 The Commodity, Karl Marx; Chapter 12 The Categorical Imperative, Immanuel Kant; Chapter 13 The Problem of Justice Between Generations, John Rawls; Chapter 14 The New Forms of Control, Herbert Marcuse; Chapter 15 Liberalism and Environmental Quality, Matthew Cahn; Part III The Green Critique; Chapter 16 The Green Critique: An Introduction, Matthew Cahn; Chapter 17 Higher Laws, Henry David Thoreau; Chapter 18 Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson; Chapter 19 Silent Spring, Rachel Carson; Chapter 20 The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich; Chapter 21 The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology, Barry Commoner; Chapter 22 Ecology: The Shallow and the Deep, Arne Naess; Chapter 23 The Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin; Chapter 24 Feminism and the Revolt of Nature, Ynestra King; Chapter 25 The Concept of Social Ecology, Murray Bookchin; Chapter 26 The Diversity of Life, Edward O. Wilson; Chapter 27 Environmental Racism and the Environmental Justice Movement, Robert D. Bullard; Part IV Accommodating the Future; Chapter 28 Accommodating the Future: Strategies for Resolving the Environmental Quagmire, Matthew Cahn; Chapter 29 Environmental Justice, Peter Wenz; Chapter 30 Should Trees Have Standing?, ChristopherStone; Chapter 31 Ecological Literacy, David W. Orr; Chapter 32 Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our Way Out, Lester Milbrath; Chapter 33 Free Market Environmentalism, Terry L. Anderson, Donald R. Leal; Chapter 34 Steady-State Economics, Herman E. Daly; Chapter 35 Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics, Robert C. Paehlke; Chapter 36 Normative Theory and Public Policy, Rory O’Brien; Chapter 37 Democratic Dilemmas in the Age of Ecology, Daniel Press; Chapter 38 Rights and the Further Future, James L. Hudson; Chapter 39 Thinking About Sustainable Development: What’s Theory Got to Do With It?, Robert O. Vos;