These original essays explore non-reciprocated relationships with regard to the environment. The contributing philosophers who are known for their writing on environmental concerns discuss moral issues that arise when decisions by individuals, corporations, or governments cause changes in the environment that affect those who do not participate in the decisions. Among the topics addressed are population expansion, accumulation of toxic wastes, pollution of air and water, as well as the effects of actions by the "upstream," current generation on "downstream," future generations. Donald Scherer is Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University.
| ||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Editorial Reviews
Review
"This book contains admirable examples of applied philosophy with solid conceptual analysis of critical social and legal issues.... The articles are accessible to an educated layman [and]...suitable for use in upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental philosophy, law, political theory, and —to a lesser degree—economics and history. Select essays can be read profitably by those with interests in environmental policy making, consulting, interpretation, and enforcement."
—Environmental History Review
—Environmental History Review
"The essays in Donald Scherer's Upstream/Downstream offer serious readers more to get their teeth into.... [Scherer] deserves congratulation for welding his authors' pieces into a stimulating and satisfying whole...written in accessible, reasonably non-technical language."
—Environmental Values
From the Publisher
Philosophy applied to environmental issues
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
(learn more)
environmental ethics, hillslope hydrology, utilitarian generalization, expected desirability, hydrogeological models, act utilitarian principle, natural property rights, transboundary environmental problems, downstream environments, imperceptible effects, distributive criteria, international environmental problems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maxey Flats, New York, United States, Can Today's System Handle Transboundary Problems, Scientific Method, The Rights of Future Generations, Soviet Union, Assessing Acts of Pollution, Two Types of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Just Compensation, Managing the Future, Mercury Poisoning Case, Law of the Sea, Climate Change, Greenhouse Effect, Groundwater Hydrology, Joel Feinberg, Fifth Amendment, Oxford University Press, Environmental Protection Agency, Societal Responses, Clarendon Press, Notes Acknowledgments, Trail Smelter, Thomas Schwartz Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
environmental ethics, hillslope hydrology, utilitarian generalization, expected desirability, hydrogeological models, act utilitarian principle, natural property rights, transboundary environmental problems, downstream environments, imperceptible effects, distributive criteria, international environmental problems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maxey Flats, New York, United States, Can Today's System Handle Transboundary Problems, Scientific Method, The Rights of Future Generations, Soviet Union, Assessing Acts of Pollution, Two Types of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Just Compensation, Managing the Future, Mercury Poisoning Case, Law of the Sea, Climate Change, Greenhouse Effect, Groundwater Hydrology, Joel Feinberg, Fifth Amendment, Oxford University Press, Environmental Protection Agency, Societal Responses, Clarendon Press, Notes Acknowledgments, Trail Smelter, Thomas Schwartz Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
6
books
cite this book:
See all 6 books citing this book
- A Companion to Environmental Philosophy (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) by Dale Jamieson on page 389
- Conserving Natural Value by III Holmes Rolston in Back Matter
- Philosophical Issues, Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy (Philosophical Issues: A Supplement to Nous) (Volume 11) by Ernest Sosa on page 171
- Philosophical Issues, Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy (Philosophical Issues: A Supplement to Nous) (Volume 11) by Ernest Sosa on page 171
- Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies (Inside Technology) by Charis Thompson in Back Matter
See all 6 books citing this book
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
