Boundaries : a casebook in environmental ethics /
Christine E. Gudorf and James E. Huchingson.
- Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2003.
- xi, 250 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theory in environmental ethics -- Bridge over troubled waters : embattled community in the Everglades -- For ecological health or profit? The POPs elimination treaty -- Heart thieves : preserving endangered ecosystems or endangered cultures in Madagascar -- Must Java have no forests? Nature preserves and human population pressures -- Buried alive : future generations and permanent underground disposal of nuclear waste -- Ecological quick fixes? Restoring degraded coral reefs -- River run or river ruined : hydropower or free-flowing rivers? -- Nature creates deserts, too : addressing desertification in China. Rewilding : restoration of degraded ecosystems -- Improving on natural variation? Genetically modified foods -- Nature red in tooth, claw, and bullet : hunting and human presence in nature -- Understanding xenotransplants : cross-breeding humans or advanced domestication of animals?