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Wilderness, Morality, and Value

Author : Joshua Duclos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666901377
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Wilderness, Morality, and Value written by Joshua Duclos and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if wilderness is bad for wildlife? This question motivates the philosophical investigation in Wilderness, Morality, and Value. Environmentalists aim to protect wilderness, and for good reasons, but wilderness entails unremittent, incalculable suffering for its non-human habitants. Given that it will become increasingly possible to augment nature in ways that ameliorates some of this suffering, the morality of wilderness preservation is itself in question. Joshua S. Duclos argues that the technological and ethical reality of the Anthropocene warrants a fundamental reassessment of the value of wilderness. After exposing the moral ambiguity of wilderness preservation, he explores the value of wilderness itself by engaging with anthropocentricism and nonanthropocentrism; sentientism, biocentrism, and ecocentrism; and instrumental value and intrinsic value. Duclos argues that the value of wilderness is a narrow form of anthropocentric intrinsic value, one with a religio-spiritual dimension. By integrating scholarship from bioethics on the norms of engineering human nature with debates in environmental ethics concerning the prospect of engineering non-human nature, Wilderness, Morality, and Value sets the stage for wilderness ethics—or wilderness faith—in the Anthropocene.

Wilderness Ethics: Preserving the Spirit of Wildness

Author : Guy Waterman
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1581577524
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Wilderness Ethics: Preserving the Spirit of Wildness written by Guy Waterman and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2000-12-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 2000 Guy Waterman died in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. In recognition of the renewed interest in his life and work, The Countryman Press is proud to reissue this classic text, with a new appreciation of her late husband by Laura Waterman. In this environmental call to action, Laura and Guy Waterman look beyond preserving the ecology of the backcountry to focus on what they call its spiritual dimension--its fragile, untamed wildness. "Without some management, wildness cannot survive the number of people who seek to enjoy it," they write. "But with too much management, or the wrong kind, we can destroy the spiritual component of wildness in our zeal to preserve its physical side." Trailside huts and lodges, large groups seeking "wilderness experiences," federal and state regulations, and technology such as radios, cell phones, global positioning devices, and emergency helicopters, all have an impact on our experience. With humor and insight, the Watermans explore these difficult wilderness management issues. They ask us to evaluate the impact that even "environmentally conscious" values have on the wilderness experience, and to ask the question: What are we trying to preserve?

Values Education for Citizens in the New Century

Author : Zijian Li
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789629961534
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Values Education for Citizens in the New Century written by Zijian Li and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of papers by international experts in education on the theory and practice of values education in global contexts. Contemporary examples include Australia, the U.K., Hong Kong, Macau, and Thailand.

Science and Stewardship to Protect and Sustain Wilderness Values

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Science and Stewardship to Protect and Sustain Wilderness Values written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seventh World Wilderness Congress met in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in 2001. The symposium on science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values was one of several symposia held in conjunction with the Congress. The papers contained in this proceedings were presented at this symposium and cover seven topics: state-of-knowledge on protected areas issues in South Africa; traditional and ecological values of nature; wilderness systems and approaches to protection; protection of coastal/marine and river/lake wilderness; spiritual benefits, religious beliefs, and new stories; personal and societal values of wilderness; and the role of science, education, and collaborative planning in wilderness protection and restoration.

Science and Stewardship to Protect and Sustain Wilderness Values

Author : Alan E. Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Science and Stewardship to Protect and Sustain Wilderness Values written by Alan E. Watson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings RMRS.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings RMRS. written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Animal Geographies

Author : Jennifer Wolch
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859841372
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Animal Geographies written by Jennifer Wolch and published by Verso. This book was released on 1998-09-17 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, billions of animals are poisoned, dissected, displaced, killed for consumption, or held in captivity to be discarded as soon as their utility to humans has waned. The animal world has never been under greater peril. A broad-ranging collection of essays, this publication contributes to a re-thinking about humans' relation to animals.

Philosophy Gone Wild

Author : Holmes Rolston
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615924191
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy Gone Wild written by Holmes Rolston and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here are fifteen essays written from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s by a pioneering environmental ethicist. The collection is divided into four sections: ethics and nature, values in nature, environmental philosophy in practice, and nature in experience. . . . Rolston''s writing often evokes the best of American philosophy of nature. He writes with flair and grace. The book is good reading because it is good literature. Rolston raises unsettling questions [and] a formidable challenge. The agenda is well set." -- F. E. Bernard, Ethics"An important book that deserves a wide student readership . . . . Highly appropriate for ecology . . . and philosophy courses, as well as courses dealing with environmental law and policy-making." -- J. C. Kricher, Choice

Synthetic Biology and Morality

Author : Gregory E. Kaebnick
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262314975
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Synthetic Biology and Morality written by Gregory E. Kaebnick and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse. Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behavior. The emergence of this new form of biotechnology, however, raises a variety of ethical questions—first and foremost, whether synthetic biology is intrinsically troubling in moral terms. Is it an egregious example of scientists “playing God”? Synthetic Biology and Morality takes on this threshold ethical question, as well as others that follow, offering a range of philosophical and political perspectives on the power of synthetic biology. The contributors consider the basic question of the ethics of making new organisms, with essays that lay out the conceptual terrain and offer opposing views of the intrinsic moral concerns; discuss the possibility that synthetic organisms are inherently valuable; and address whether, and how, moral objections to synthetic biology could be relevant to policy making and political discourse. Variations of these questions have been raised before, in debates over other biotechnologies, but, as this book shows, they take on novel and illuminating form when considered in the context of synthetic biology. Contributors John Basl, Mark A. Bedau, Joachim Boldt, John H. Evans, Bruce Jennings, Gregory E. Kaebnick, Ben Larson, Andrew Lustig, Jon Mandle, Thomas H. Murray, Christopher J. Preston, Ronald Sandler

Ethics

Author : Peter Cave
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 178074577X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Ethics written by Peter Cave and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should we aim to maximize happiness? Are there characteristics that we should foster within ourselves? Why is it important to act morally? From the ancient Greeks to Sartre, from utilitarianism to the categorical imperative, Ethics: A Beginner’s Guide presents this vital topic of philosophy via its most influential thinkers and theories. With characteristic wit, philosopher Peter Cave steers us around well known and not-so-well known ethical traps – in the private sphere, in community life, and in relation to God and religion. As well as a guide to ongoing theoretical debates, Cave shows how the discipline helps us to confront topical controversies including those of the environment, abortion, and animal welfare. For anyone who questions how we ought to live, there is no better introduction to ethics and how it relates to twenty-first-century society.

Wilderness and the Question of Moral Standing

Author : Harley Scott Cahen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness and the Question of Moral Standing written by Harley Scott Cahen and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Regeneration Through Violence

Author : Richard Slotkin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806132297
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Regeneration Through Violence written by Richard Slotkin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.

Accessing Biological Resources

Author : Natalie P. Stoianoff
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9041120874
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Accessing Biological Resources written by Natalie P. Stoianoff and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stoianoff (law, University of Wollongong, Australia) collects contributions from lawyers, scientists, and policy makers on issues related to the use of biological and genetic resources for commercial and scientific purposes. While emphasis is on the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Interna.

A Darwinian Worldview

Author : Mr Brian Baxter
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409485269
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book A Darwinian Worldview written by Mr Brian Baxter and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is considered in its application to human beings in this book. Brian Baxter examines the various sociobiological approaches to the explanation of human behaviour which view the human brain, and so the human mind, as the product of evolution, and considers the main arguments for and against this claim. In so doing he defends the approaches against some common criticisms, such as the charge that they are reductionist and dehumanising. The implications of these arguments for the social sciences and humanities are assessed, as is the naturalistic view of ethics to which they lead. A key issue examined in the book is the connection between this Darwinist perspective on human beings and modern environmental ethics, which also often assume that human beings are part of an evolved living world. The implications of these positions for the meaningfulness of human life are also examined. Throughout the discussion the positions in sociobiology and environmental ethics developed by Edward O. Wilson are taken as an exemplar of the characteristic features of a Darwinian worldview, and the arguments of Wilson and his chief critics are thoroughly examined.

Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics

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Publisher : Newnes
ISBN 13 : 0080964524
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics written by and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every decision about energy involves its price and cost. The price of gasoline and the cost of buying from foreign producers; the price of nuclear and hydroelectricity and the costs to our ecosystems; the price of electricity from coal-fired plants and the cost to the atmosphere. Giving life to inventions, lifestyle changes, geopolitical shifts, and things in-between, energy economics is of high interest to Academia, Corporations and Governments. For economists, energy economics is one of three subdisciplines which, taken together, compose an economic approach to the exploitation and preservation of natural resources: energy economics, which focuses on energy-related subjects such as renewable energy, hydropower, nuclear power, and the political economy of energy resource economics, which covers subjects in land and water use, such as mining, fisheries, agriculture, and forests environmental economics, which takes a broader view of natural resources through economic concepts such as risk, valuation, regulation, and distribution Although the three are closely related, they are not often presented as an integrated whole. This Encyclopedia has done just that by unifying these fields into a high-quality and unique overview. The only reference work that codifies the relationships among the three subdisciplines: energy economics, resource economics and environmental economics. Understanding these relationships just became simpler! Nobel Prize Winning Editor-in-Chief (joint recipient 2007 Peace Prize), Jason Shogren, has demonstrated excellent team work again, by coordinating and steering his Editorial Board to produce a cohesive work that guides the user seamlessly through the diverse topics This work contains in equal parts information from and about business, academic, and government perspectives and is intended to serve as a tool for unifying and systematizing research and analysis in business, universities, and government

Rethinking Wilderness

Author : Mark Woods
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770486127
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Wilderness written by Mark Woods and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2017-07-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept and values of wilderness, along with the practice of wilderness preservation, have been under attack for the past several decades. In Rethinking Wilderness, Mark Woods responds to seven prominent anti-wilderness arguments. Woods offers a rethinking of the received concept of wilderness, developing a positive account of wilderness as a significant location for the other-than-human value-adding properties of naturalness, wildness, and freedom. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book combines environmental philosophy, environmental history, environmental social sciences, the science of ecology, and the science of conservation biology.

Changing Wilderness Values, 1930-1990

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Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Changing Wilderness Values, 1930-1990 written by and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1991-05-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Documenting the evolution and diversity of wilderness values from the 1930s to the present, this fully annotated work provides a review of the literature as a whole and information on writers, content, themes, and important passages for each entry. It offers convenient access to such varied materials as poetry, fiction, and nature writing as well as history and philosophy, scientific research, and works advocating particular wilderness uses and policies." -- Publisher.