Gudorf, Christine E.

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?

0878401342 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

2003004438

GBA3-V1349


Environmental ethics--Case studies.
Environmental sciences--Philosophy--Case studies.

GE 42 / .G83 2003