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Ecological sciences have informed environmental ethics from its inception as a scholarly pursuit in the 1970s so much so that we now have ecological ethics, Deep Ecology, and ecofeminism. Throughout the 20th century, however, most ecologists remained enthralled by the myth that science is value-free. Closer study of science by philosophers reveals that metaphors are inescapable and cognitively indispensable to science, but that metaphors are value-laden. As we confront the enormous challenges of the 21st century the prospect of a 6th mass extinction, acidifying oceans, rising sea level, and global warming ecologists can no longer remain aloof from public discourse about what actions to take to address these problems. And that means that 21st century ecologists understand that right action is guided by ethics. However, integration of ethical ideas into academic curricula and ecologists research agendas is still meager.

Table of Contents:

• Integrating Philosophy and Ecology: Biocultural Interfaces
• Introduction to Integrating Philosophy and Ecology: Biocultural Interfaces / Ricardo Rozzi
• Biocultural Ethics: From Biocultural Homogenization Toward Biocultural Conservation / Ricardo Rozzi
• Introduced Species, Homogenizing Biotas and Cultures / Daniel Simberloff
• Traditional Knowledge and Wisdom: A Guide for Understanding and Shaping Alaskan Social-Ecological Change / F. Stuart Chapin III, Patricia Cochran, Orville H. Huntington, Corrine N. Knapp [and others]
• Traditional Ecological Values, Knowledge, and Practices in Twenty-First Century Hawai'i / Peter Vitousek, Kamanamaikalani Beamer
• Tradition as Benefit or Barrier? The Case of Christian Religion in the Formation of Environmental Ethics in the United States / Susan Power Bratton
• Environment Imagination Situation / Irene J. Klaver
• Ecological Worldviews: Aesthetics, Metaphors, and Conservation
• Introduction to Ecological Worldviews: Aesthetics, Metaphors, and Conservation / J. Baird Callicott
• The Worldview Concept and Aldo Leopold's Project of "World View" Remediation / J. Baird Callicott
• The Link Between Aesthetic Appreciation and the Preservation Imperative / Sheila Lintott, Allen Carlson
• The Metaphorical Links Between Ecology, Ethics, and Society / Brendon M.H. Larson
• Science as Sacred Myth? Ecospirituality in the Anthropocene Age / Lisa H. Sideris
• Rachel Carson's Environmental Ethics / Philip Cafaro
• Aldo Leopold: Connecting Conservation Science, Ethics, Policy, and Practice / Curt Meine
• Environmental Philosophy: Ethics, Epistemology, Justice
• Introduction to Environmental Philosophy: Ethics, Epistemology, Justice / Clare Palmer
• Contested Frameworks in Environmental Ethics / Clare Palmer
• Legacies of Positivism in the Philosophy of Science / Helen E. Longino

• Ecological Objects for Environmental Ethics / Christopher H. Eliot
• Ecology, Ethics and Global Justice / Tim Hayward
• Whose Danger, Which Climate? Mesopotamian versus Liberal Accounts of Climate Justice / Michael S. Northcott
• Environmental Justice, Ecofeminism, and Power / Chaone Mallory
• Ecosystems: Science, Values, and Action
• Introduction to Ecosystems: Science, Values, and Action / Steward T.A. Pickett
• The Flux of Nature: Changing Worldviews and Inclusive Concepts / Steward T.A. Pickett
• Hierarchy Theory: An Overview / Jianguo Wu
• Ecosystem Services: Is a Planet Servicing One Species Likely to Function? / Shahid Naeem
• Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Transition to the Sustainable City: Values, Philosophy, and Action / Stephanie Pincetl
• Not Such Strange Bedfellows: Underserved Public Audiences as Collaborators for Ecologists / Nalini M. Nadkarni
• A Call for Ethics Literacy in Environmental Education / Alexandria K. Poole, Eugene C. Hargrove, Philip Day, William Forbes, Alan R. Berkowitz [and others].

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Contributors:

Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Ecology and ethics (Springer (Firm)); v.1

Subjects:

Ecology — Moral and ethical aspects

Ecology

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 11, 2014).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxviii, 377 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GF80

ISBNs:

9789400774704
9400774702
9789400774698 [Invalid]
9400774699 (print)
9789400774698 (print)

Other Standard Numbers:

10.1007/978-94-007-7470-4 (source: None)

OCLC Numbers:

870900158

Other Control Numbers:

EBC1698403 (source: MiAaPQ)