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Environmental Ethics Bibliography

Adamson, Joni, Mei Mei Evans, and Rachel Stein, eds. The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2002.

Brennan, Andrew, ed. The Ethics of the Environment. Brookfield, VT: Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1995.

DesJardins, Joseph R. Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy, 3rd edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2001.

Hoffman, Michael W., Robert Frederick, and Edward S. Petry, eds. The Corporation, Ethics, and the Environment. Westport: Quorum Books, 1990.

Jamieson, Dale, ed. A Companion to Environmental Philosophy. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, Inc., 2001.

Kaufman, Frederik A. Foundations of Environmental Philosophy. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.

Light, Andrew, and Holmes Rolston III, eds. Environmental Ethics: An Anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.

Martin-Schramm, James B., and Stivers, Robert L. Christian Environmental Ethics: A Case Method Approach. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2003.

Newton, Lisa H., and Catherine K. Dillingham. Watersheds: Classic Cases in Environmental Ethics. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1994.

Palmer, Clare. Environmental Ethics: Contemporary Ethical Issues. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 1997.

Wenz, Peter S. Environmental Ethics Today. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Weston, Anthony, ed. An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Westphal, Dale and Fred Westphal, eds. Planet in Peril: Essays in Environmental E thics. Orlando: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1994.

Zimmerman, Michael E., et al. Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005.


Editorial Note: This short course in environmental ethics was developed by Dr. Keith Warner, OFM, Director of the Faith, Ethics, and Vocation Project of the Environmental Studies Institute at Santa Clara University, and by Dr. David DeCosse, Director of Campus Ethics Programs at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Meredith Swinehart, a senior at Santa Clara University and recipient of the Environmental Ethics Fellowship for 2005-06 at the Ethics Center, also assisted in the preparation of this material.

Oct 29, 2015
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