1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics
Written for a wide range of readers in environmental science, philosophy, and policy-oriented programs The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics is a landmark, comprehensive reference work in this interdisciplinary field. Not merely a review of theoretical approaches to the ethics of the environment, the Companion focuses on specific environmental problems and other concrete issues. Its 65 chapters, all appearing in print here for the first time, have been organized into the following eleven parts:
I. Animals
II. Land
III. Water
IV. Climate
V. Energy and Extraction
VI. Cities
VII. Agriculture
VIII. Environmental Transformation
IX. Policy Frameworks and Response Measures
X. Regulatory Tools
XI. Advocacy and Activism
The volume not only explains the nuances of important core philosophical positions, but also cuts new pathways for the integration of important ethical and policy issues into environmental philosophy. It will be of immense help to undergraduate students and other readers coming up to the field for the first time, but also serve as a valuable resource for more advanced students as well as researchers who need a trusted resource that also offers fresh, policy-centered approaches.
Introduction
Benjamin Hale and Andrew Light
Part I: Animals
1. Animal Cognition and Moral Status
Robert C. Jones
2. Eating
Dan Hooley and Nathan Nobis
3. Experimentation
Larry Carbone
4. Companion Animals
Clare Palmer and T.J. Kasperbauer
5. Species and Wildness
Lee Brann, Alexandra Laird, and Alexander Lee
6. Wild Animals
Jeff Sebo
7. Hunting
Nathan Kowalsky
Part II: Land
8. Forests
Lydia A. Lawhon
9. Mountains: Rethinking Thinking Like a Mountain
David Strong
10. Wilderness
Michael Paul Nelson
11. National Parks
Holmes Rolston, III
12. Landscape
Allen Carlson
13. Property
Markku Oksanen
Part III: Water
14. Water Quality and Availability
Jeremy J. Schmidt
15. Wetlands
J. Baird Callicott
16. Rivers and Watersheds
Alan J. Rabideau and Kenneth E. Shockley
17. Ocean Policy
Carl Safina
18. Fishing and Harvesting
Mary Lyn Stoll
19. Marine Protected Areas
Nathan J. Bennett and Kai M. A. Chan
Part IV: Climate
20. Moral Bases of Responses to Climate Change
David R. Morrow
21. Climate Modeling
Wendy S. Parker
22. Climate Change Mitigation
Marcus Hedahl, Kyle Fruh, and Lindsay Whitlow
23. Climate Justice and Equity
Steve Vanderheiden
24. Geoengineering
Benjamin Hale and Michael Pellegrino
25. Skepticism and Denialism
Jay Odenbaugh
Part V: Energy and Extraction
26. Fossil Fuels
Kian Mintz-Woo
27. Mining
Jessica M. Smith
28. Nuclear Power
John Nolt
29. Hydropower
Jonas Anshelm and Simon Haikola
30. Renewable Energy
Anne Schwenkenbecher and Martin Brueckner
31. Natural Gas and Fracking
Adam Briggle
32. Energy Poverty
Robin Attfield
Part VI: Cities
33. Urban Sustainability
Steven A. Moore and Meghan Kleon
34. Urban Parks and Open Space
Roger Paden
35. Suburbs and Exurbs
Robert Kirkman
36. Transportation
Lisa Schweitzer
37. Waste and Consumption
Jen Everett and Rich Cameron
Part VII: Agriculture
38. Food
David M. Kaplan
39. Industrial Agriculture
Paul B. Thompson
40. Biotechnology
Dane Scott
41. Sustainable Agriculture
Alastair Iles
42. Community Gardens
Stephanie Ross
Part VIII: Environmental Transformation
43. Remediation
Marion Hourdequin
44. Restoration
Mark Woods
45. Assisted Migration and Reintroduction
Ronald L. Sandler
46. Zoos and Conservation
Ben A. Minteer, James P. Collins, and Aierona Bonnie Raschke
47. Rewilding
Derek Turner
48. Novel Ecosystems
Allen Thompson
Part IX: Policy Frameworks and Response Measures
49. Pollution and Polluter Pays
Aaron Lercher
50. Constitutional Rights
Kristian Skagen Ekeli
51. Libertarianism
Matt Zwolinski
52. Prediction and Forecasting
Arielle Tozier de la Poterie and Meaghan Daly
53. Disaster Response
Bruce Jennings
Part X: Regulatory Tools
54. Command and Control
Joshua Preiss
55. Economic Instruments
Joe E. Aldy
56. Cost-Benefit Analysis
David Schmidtz
57. Risk Assessment
Sven Ove Hansson
58. Precautionary Principles
Kevin C. Elliott
59. Adaptive Management
R. Bruce Hull
Part XI: Advocacy and Activism
60. Education
Matt Ferkany
61. Everyday Aesthetics
Yuriko Saito
62. Community Participation
W.S.K. "Scott" Cameron
63. Environmental Justice
Robert Melchoir Figueroa
64. Environmental Civil Disobedience
Jennifer Welchman
65. Lawbreaking and Ecoterrorism
Ned Hettinger
Biography
Benjamin Hale is Associate Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His primary area of research is environmental and public health ethics, and he is the author of the book, The Wild and the Wicked: On Nature and Human Nature (2016).
Andrew Light is University Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy, and Atmospheric Sciences, and Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University. He is currently on leave, serving as Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy. He is the author of over 100 articles and book chapters on climate change, restoration ecology, and urban sustainability, and has authored, co-authored, and edited 19 books, including Environmental Values (Routledge, 2008), Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice (2003), Technology and the Good Life? (2000), and Environmental Pragmatism (Routledge, 1996). He was previously a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C., and served as Senior Advisor and India Counselor to the U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change in the U.S. Department of State.
Lydia A. Lawhon is Research Associate in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research broadly investigates the drivers of practical conflicts between people and large carnivores and the political conflicts between people over large carnivore management.
