LibGuides: Environmental Studies: Environmental Ethics

Web Resources

A Short Course in Environmental Ethics: Introduction
Course plan by Keith Douglass Warner OFM, with David DeCosse. This general Environmental Ethics course includes a section on religion.
Environmental Ethics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This entry covers: (1) the challenge of environmental ethics to the anthropocentrism (i.e., human-centeredness) embedded in traditional western ethical thinking; (2) the early development of the discipline in the 1960s and 1970s; (3) the connection of deep ecology, feminist environmental ethics, animism and social ecology to politics; (4) the attempt to apply traditional ethical theories, including consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics, to support contemporary environmental concerns; (5) the preservation of biodiversity as an ethical goal; (6) the broader concerns of some thinkers with wilderness, the built environment and the politics of poverty; (7) the ethics of sustainability and climate change, and (8) some directions for possible future developments of the discipline.

Library Resources

The rights of nature : a history of environmental ethics by Roderick Frazier Nash
Call Number: 179.1 N17r
ISBN: 9780299118440
Publication Date: 1989
Charting the history of contemporary philosophical and religious beliefs regarding nature, Roderick Nash focuses primarily on changing attitudes toward nature in the United States. His work is the first comprehensive history of the concept that nature has rights and that American liberalism has, in effect, been extended to the nonhuman world.
Respect for nature : a theory of environmental ethics by Paul W. Taylor
Call Number: 179.1 T21r
ISBN: 0691077096
Publication Date: 1986
Respect for Nature (1986) was perhaps the most comprehensive and philosophically sophisticated defense of biocentric ethics. Taylor provided a philosophical account of why life should be accepted as the criterion of moral standing, and he offered a reasoned and principled account of the practical implications of biocentrism. He claimed that life itself is a nonarbitrary criterion for moral standing because all living things can be meaningfully said to have a good of their own. - Encylopaedia Britannica

Environmental ethics : intercultural perspectives by King-Tak Ip, editor
ISBN: 9789042025950
Publication Date: 2009
This book shows that environmental protection is a global concern that must enlist all of humanity¿s cultural, religious, and moral resources. The nine essays in this volume explore the foundations of environmental ethics in the Western philosophical tradition as well as from the perspectives of Christianity, Islam, Daoism, and Buddhism and propose morally responsible attitudes towards nature and the environment.
Exploring environmental ethics : an introduction by Kimberly K. Smith
ISBN: 9783319773940
Publication Date: 2018
This book is designed as a basic text for courses that are part of an interdisciplinary program in environmental studies. The intended reader is anyone who expects environmental stewardship to be an important part of his or her life, as a citizen, a policy maker, or an environmental management professional. In addition to discussing major issues in environmental ethics, it invites readers to think about how an ethicist's perspective differs from the perspectives encountered in other environmental studies courses. Additional topics covered include corporate social responsibility, ecological citizenship, property theory, and the concept of stewardship as a vocation.
Ecologies of grace: environmental ethics and Christian theology by Willis Jenkins
ISBN: 9780195328516
Publication Date: 2008
Only recently have theologians begun to think and write about the ecological crisis in a focused manner. It is clear, however, that people of faith must come to grips with that crisis and find a way of thinking about it in the context of their beliefs. This book offers an introduction to Christian environemntal ethics.
The ethics of the global environment by Robin Attfield
ISBN: 9780748654802
Publication Date: 2015, 2nd ed.
"This fully updated and expanded textbook offers new reflections on global environmental issues including climate change, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation, while remaining sensitive to global developments such as the Summits at Durban on climate and at Nagoya on biodiversity. It supplies an ethical critique of current international environmental problems and negotiations, and the shape which international regimes will need in order to cope with global environmental problems"--Back cover.

Environmental Ethics
Publication Date: 09/01/2013 to present
An interdisciplinary journal which seeks to combine nonprofessional environmental philosophy with the professional interest in the subject; articles in all areas of philosophy and environmental affairs.
Ethics & the Environment
Publication Date: 06/01/1999 to present
Forum for theoretical & practical articles, discussions, reviews & book reviews in the broad area encompassed by environmental ethics.

Religious Ethics and the Environment A Review Essay by Pedersen, Kusumita P.
Publication Date: JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS ETHICS; SEP 2015; 43; 3; p558-p585,